The Brixworth Lectures (1983–)

Archive of the 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 held annually on the Saturday nearest to the feast of All Saints (1 November). Click here for information on the 2010 Brixworth Lecture.

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

LECTURE NO.	YEAR	LECTURE TITLE	INFORMATION
30	2012	Faith Wallis Visualising Time and Nature in Anglo-Saxon England	The Brixworth Lecture 2012: Prof. Faith Wallis
29	2011	Leslie Webster Wall-paintings to altar cloths: furnishing the Anglo-Saxon Church
28	2010	Julia Barrow Who served the altar at Brixworth? Clergy in English minsters c.800-c.1100	forthcoming
27	2009	Richard Gem Architecture, Liturgy and Romanitas at All Saints' Church, Brixworth	Published
26	2008	David N. Parsons The pre-Viking place-names of Northamptonshire
25	2007	Ian N. Wood The Priest, the Temple and the Moon in the Eighth Century	Published
24	2006	Elaine Treharne Gluttons for Punishment? The Drunk and Disorderly in Anglo-Saxon Homilies	Published
23	2005	Susan Rankin Music to adorn the liturgy of the Anglo-Saxon Church
22	2004	Mark Blackburn Coinage and the Economy of Anglo-Saxon England
21	2003	Patrick Wormald 'Corruption’, ‘Decline’, and the ‘Real World’ of the Early English Church: aristocrats as abbots	Published
20	2002	Nicholas Brooks Church, State, and Access to Resources in Early Anglo-Saxon England	Published
19	2001	Michelle Brown Methods of Making: Techniques and Perceptions in the Production of Manuscripts in Anglo-Saxon England
18	2000	David Parsons Chapels and Chantries in Medieval Northamptonshire	Published
17	1999	Jane Hawkes Sculpture on the Mercian Fringe: the Anglo-Saxon crosses at Sandbach, Cheshire	Published
16	1998	Neil Christie On Bells and Belltowers: an evolution from late antiquity to the middle ages	Published
15	1997	David Dumville St Augustine, St Gregory and the origins of English Christianity
14	1996	Michael Swanton Opening the Franks Casket	Published
13	1995	John Blair Continuity and Diversity: Minster churches and territorial organisation in Anglo-Saxon England
12	1994	Eric Fernie The Saxon-Norman Overlap in Architecture
11	1993	Simon Keynes The Councils of Clovesho	Published
10	1992	Henry Loyn The Church and the Law in early Anglo-Saxon England	Published
9	1991	Alan Thacker The Making of a Saint some pre-Viking cults in the East Midlands
8	1990	Rosamond McKitterick Anglo-Saxon Missionaries in Germany: personal connections and local influences	Published
7	1989	Richard K. Morris Rooms around the church
6	1988	Richard Bailey The Meaning of Mercian Sculpture	Published
5	1987	David Rollason Two Anglo-Saxon Rituals: the dedication fo a church and the judicial ordeal	Published
4	1986	Martin Biddle Egypt and Brixworth: and Anglo-Saxon journey in 1847
3	1985	Rosemary Cramp Anglo-Saxon sculpture in and around Northamptonshire
2	1984	Geoffrey H. Martin Some Dedications and Guilds of All Saints
1	1983	Harold Taylor All Saints' Church, Brixworth: how the church took its present shape	Published

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