Previous Brixworth Lectures

The Brixworth Lecture Series is organised by The Friends of All Saints Church Brixworth in conjunction with the Medieval Research Centre at the University of Leicester. The lecture is generally held annually on the Saturday nearest to the feast of All Saints (1 November).

Many of the lectures have been published and can be purchased at the church or via the Friends of All Saints'.

Archive

Lecture No.	Lecture title	Year
39	Dr Christine Rauer 'Where was Mercian Spoken? Brixworth, its Old English Dialect and the limits of Anglo-Saxon Mercia'	2022
38	Dr Jane Kershaw Vikings in Northamptonshire	2021
37	Dr Gareth Williams The Conquest(s) of Mercia & the unification of England	2019
36	Michael Wood King Æthelstan and the Making of England	2018
35	Jon Wilcox Pleasures of the Pulpit: sex and humour in Anglo-Saxon homilies	2017
34	Catherine Cubitt Reform and renewal of religious life in Anglo-Saxon England	2016
33	Barbara Yorke Mercia and Wessex c.800: Connections and Comparisons	2015
32	Jennifer O'Reilly A sealed book: interpreting Scripture in the Anglo-Saxon Church	2014
31	Leslie Brubaker Brixworth and Byzantium	2013
30	Faith Wallis Visualising Time and Nature in Anglo-Saxon England	2012
29	Leslie Webster Wall-paintings to altar cloths: furnishing the Anglo-Saxon Church	2011
28	Julia Barrow Who served the altar at Brixworth? Clergy in English minsters c.800-c.1100	2010
27	Richard Gem Architecture, Liturgy and Romanitas at All Saints' Church, Brixworth	2009
26	David N. Parsons The pre-Viking place-names of Northamptonshire	2008
25	Ian N. Wood The Priest, the Temple and the Moon in the Eighth Century	2007
24	Elaine Treharne Gluttons for Punishment? The Drunk and Disorderly in Anglo-Saxon Homilies	2006
23	Susan Rankin Music to adorn the liturgy of the Anglo-Saxon Church	2005
22	Mark Blackburn Coinage and the Economy of Anglo-Saxon England	2004
21	Patrick Wormald 'Corruption’, ‘Decline’, and the ‘Real World’ of the Early English Church: aristocrats as abbots	2003
20	Nicholas Brooks Church, State, and Access to Resources in Early Anglo-Saxon England	2002
19	Michelle Brown Methods of Making: Techniques and Perceptions in the Production of Manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon England	2001
18	David Parsons Chapels and Chantries in Medieval Northamptonshire	2000
17	Jane Hawkes Sculpture on the Mercian Fringe: the Anglo-Saxon crosses at Sandbach, Cheshire	1999
16	Neil Christie On Bells and Belltowers: an evolution from late antiquity to the middle ages	1998
15	David Dumville St Augustine, St Gregory and the origins of English Christianity	1997
14	Michael Swanton Opening the Franks Casket	1996
13	John Blair Continuity and Diversity: Minster churches and territorial organisation in Anglo-Saxon England	1995
12	Eric Fernie The Saxon-Norman Overlap in Architecture	1994
11	Simon Keynes The Councils of Clovesho	1993
10	Henry Loyn The Church and the Law in early Anglo-Saxon England	1992
9	Alan Thacker The Making of a Saint some pre-Viking cults in the East Midlands	1991
8	Rosamond McKitterick Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany: personal connections and local influences	1990
7	Richard K. Morris Rooms around the church	1989
6	Richard Bailey The Meaning of Mercian Sculpture	1988
5	David Rollason Two Anglo-Saxon Rituals: the dedication of a church and the judicial ordeal	1987
4	Martin Biddle Egypt and Brixworth: and Anglo-Saxon journey in 1847	1986
3	Rosemary Cramp Anglo-Saxon sculpture in and around Northamptonshire	1985
2	Geoffrey H. Martin Some Dedications and Guilds of All Saints	1984
1	Harold Taylor All Saints' Church, Brixworth: how the church took its present shape	1983