Professor John Blair

Professor John Blair
Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology
Queen's College
01865 (2)79204
john.blair@queens.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests

  • Early medieval settlement and landscape
  • Early medieval buildings and material culture
  • Early medieval ritual and belief

Social, cultural, ecclesiastical and landscape history and archaeology of early medieval England.

My interests lie in the settlement, landscape and society of Anglo-Saxon England, especially the built landscape, with an emphasis on archaeological evidence.My book The Church in Anglo-Saxon Society was published in 2005. I gave the Ford Lectures in British History for 2013 under the title `Building the Anglo-Saxon Landscape'.

 

See page on The Queen's College website

 

Teaching

I would like to hear from potential DPhil students regarding my research interests.

I currently teach:

Prelims

 FHS
British History I and II British History I and II
Age of Bede O.S. Anglo-Saxon Archaeology F.S.
Einhard and Asser

Norman Conquest S.S.
Approaches: Archaeology

Disciplines: Archaeology

Publications

  • Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape

    March 2020
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    Book
    Planning in the Early Medieval Landscape is a completely new perspective on how villages and other settlement were formed.
    Architecture

  • Building Anglo-Saxon England

    April 2018
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    Book

  • Bede and the Culture of the Laity: Bede and the Culture of the Laity for 2010 [pub. 2016]

    January 2016
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    Book

  • The Making of the English House: Domestic Planning, 900-1150

    April 2015
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    Chapter
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    Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History

  • The British Culture of Anglo-Saxon Settlement

    October 2013
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    Internet publication
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