Summer Talks

Professor Barbara Yorke

Barbara Yorke is Professor Emeritus of Early Medieval History at the University of Winchester: Major publications include Kings and Kingdoms in Early Anglo-Saxon England, Wessex in the Early Middle Ages, The Conversion of Britain 600-800 and Power and Place in Early Medieval Europe (edited with Jayne Carroll and Andrew Reynolds).

Professor Katy Cubitt

Katy Cubitt joined University of East Anglia in 2017, and is Professor of Medieval History. She previously worked at the University of York (1995-2016), and has held posts at the universities of Birmingham, Leeds and University College London. Her research interests span the early medieval world, from the seventh-century Mediterranean and the papacy to England before the Conquest. She has published widely on the Anglo-Saxon church and is currently involved in the Leverhulme-funded network, ‘Reconceptualising Reform 900-1150: Conceptualising Change in Medieval Religious Institutions’. She is currently a member of the Royal Historical Society Council (2013-2017), President of the Norfolk and Norwich Historical Association, and a former Research Excellence Framework panellist.