GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP148 - WORMALD, Patrick (1947-2004)

11 archive boxes

Collection deposited by the Wormald family, April 2006.
GB 0100 KCLCA K/PP148 1968-2004 Collection (fonds) 11 archive boxes Wormald , Patrick , 1947-2004 , medieval historian

Born 1947; educated Eton College, Balliol College Oxford (matriculated 1966); studied under the supervision of the leading medievalist, Professor Michael Wallace Hadrill; elected to All Soul's Oxford, 1969; Lecturer in Medieval History at Glasgow University, 1974-1988; Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford, 1988-2000; studied Venerable Bede and later and most significantly, King Alfred and his law codes; died 2004.
Publications include: The making of English law: King Alfred to the twelfth century (Oxford, 1999); Bede and the conversion of England (Jarrow, 1984).

Collection deposited by the Wormald family, April 2006.

Wormald family

Academic papers of Patrick Wormald, including texts of published and unpublished research notes and writings, lectures, drafts of books and articles created by Patrick Wormald, 1968-2004; notably including handwritten notes from research undertaken by Wormald from study of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts or taken from public lectures attended by Wormald on lawsuits, government, post-Roman Britain and pre-Conquest England and the Celtic Church; rough draft chapters on `continental legislation' covering the Franks and Carolingians; lectures on Bede, Beowulf, King Alfred, Gregory of Tours, Cnut, 1971-1984; copies of drafts of The Making of English Law, research notes and follow-up, 1989-1995; correspondence with publishers, 1983-2003; bibliographies, essay questions, seminar and course outlines from Glasgow and Oxford, 1977-1988; newspaper cuttings - mainly book reviews, 1977-1987.

First accession; future accessions planned

Arranged into the broad sequence as set out above in Scope and Content.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.
Enlish, Anglo-Saxon, Latin

This collection level description available online. Box list available in the Archives Reading Room.

Entry compiled by Geoff Browell. National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000. 15 August 2006 Alfred , 849-899 , King of Wessex , also known as Alfred the Great Anglo-saxon period Bede , c 672-735 , Saint , known as The Venerable x Venerable Bede x Saint Bede Early Medieval period English history European history Historical periods Medieval period National history Norman period University of Glasgow x Glasgow University University of Oxford , Christ Church College x Oxford University , Christ Church College Wormald , Patrick , 1947-2004 , medieval historian

Wormald family

Academic papers of Patrick Wormald, including texts of published and unpublished research notes and writings, lectures, drafts of books and articles created by Patrick Wormald, 1968-2004; notably including handwritten notes from research undertaken by Wormald from study of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts or taken from public lectures attended by Wormald on lawsuits, government, post-Roman Britain and pre-Conquest England and the Celtic Church; rough draft chapters on `continental legislation' covering the Franks and Carolingians; lectures on Bede, Beowulf, King Alfred, Gregory of Tours, Cnut, 1971-1984; copies of drafts of The Making of English Law, research notes and follow-up, 1989-1995; correspondence with publishers, 1983-2003; bibliographies, essay questions, seminar and course outlines from Glasgow and Oxford, 1977-1988; newspaper cuttings - mainly book reviews, 1977-1987.

First accession; future accessions planned

Arranged into the broad sequence as set out above in Scope and Content.

Open, subject to signature of reader's undertaking form.

Copies, subject to the condition of the original, may be provided for research use only. Requests to publish original material should be submitted to the Director of Archive Services, King's College London.

• anglais

• latin

Enlish, Anglo-Saxon, Latin

This collection level description available online. Box list available in the Archives Reading Room.

National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997; ISAD(G), Second Edition, 2000.

• anglais