Hogbacks are stone carved Anglo-Scandinavian sculptures from 10th- to 12th-century England and Scotland. Singular hogbacks were found in Ireland and Wales. Hogbacks fell out of fashion by the beginning of the 11th century. Their function is generally accepted as grave markers. Similar grave markers have been found in Scandinavia. In Cornwall similar stones are known as coped stones.
Barbara Yorke FRHistS FSA is a historian of Anglo-Saxon England,specialising in many subtopics,including 19th-century Anglo-Saxonism. She is currently emeritus professor of early Medieval history at the University of Winchester,and is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society. She is an honorary professor of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London.
The Northumbrian Renaissance or Northumbria's Golden Age is the name given to a period of cultural flowering in the Anglo-Saxon kingdom of Northumbria,broadly speaking from the mid-seventh to the mid-eighth centuries. It is characterised by a blend of insular art,Germanic art and Mediterranean influence. Authors associated with this golden age include Bede and Alcuin;artefacts include the Lindisfarne Gospels and associated manuscripts,the Ruthwell Cross and associated sculptures,and,arguably,the Franks Casket. An illustration of the cultural activity of Northumbria during this period is given by Alcuin's De Sanctis et Pontificibus EcclesiæEboracensis,which gives particular attention to Bishop Æthelbert of York.
Martin Biddle,is a British archaeologist and academic. He is an emeritus fellow of Hertford College,Oxford. His work was important in the development of medieval and post-medieval archaeology in Great Britain.
Donald Auberon Bullough FSAScot FRPSL was a British historian who taught and published on the cultural and political history of Italy,England and Carolingian France during the early Middle Ages. He was the brother of mathematician Robin Bullough.
Helena Francisca Hamerow,FSA is an American-born archaeologist,best known for her work on the archeology of early medieval communities in Northwestern Europe. She is Professor of Early Medieval archaeology and former Head of the School of Archaeology,University of Oxford.
Audrey Lilian Meaney was an archaeologist and historian specialising in the study of Anglo-Saxon England. She published several books on the subject,including Gazetteer of Early Anglo-Saxon Burial Sites (1964) and Anglo-Saxon Amulets and Curing Stones (1981).
George Speake,is an English art historian and archaeologist. He is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Archaeology at Oxford,and "a leading authority on Anglo-Saxon animal art." Currently Speake is the Anglo-Saxon Art and Iconography Specialist for the Staffordshire Hoard conservation team,and is working on the reconstruction of the Staffordshire helmet.
Dame Rosemary Jean Cramp,was an English archaeologist and academic specialising in the Anglo-Saxons. She was the first female professor appointed at Durham University and was Professor of Archaeology from 1971 to 1990. She served as president of the Society of Antiquaries of London from 2001 to 2004.
William John Blair,is an English historian,archaeologist,and academic,who specialises in Anglo-Saxon England. He is Emeritus Professor of Medieval History and Archaeology at the University of Oxford,and a Fellow of The Queen's College,Oxford. He gave the 2013 Ford Lectures at the University of Oxford.
Julia Catherine Crick,is a British historian,medievalist,and academic. She is Professor of Palaeography and Manuscript Studies at King's College London.
James Campbell,was a British historian,specialising in the medieval period and the Anglo-Saxons. He was a Fellow of Worcester College,Oxford,from 1957 until his retirement in 2002,and Professor of Medieval History at the University of Oxford from 1996 to 2002.
Nancy Margaret Edwards,is a British archaeologist and academic,who specialises in medieval archaeology and ecclesiastical history. Since 2008,she has been Professor of Medieval Archaeology at Bangor University.
Lesley Jane Abrams,is a retired academic historian. She was a Colyer-Ferguson Fellow of Balliol College,Oxford,between 2000 and 2016,and Professor of Early Medieval History at the University of Oxford from 2015 to 2016.
Leslie Elizabeth Webster,is an English retired museum curator and art historian of Anglo-Saxon and Viking art. She worked from 1964 until 2007 at the British Museum,rising to Keeper,where she curated several major exhibitions,and published many works,on the Anglo-Saxons and Early Middle Ages.
Sonia Chadwick Hawkes,was a leading specialist in early Anglo-Saxon archaeology,described by fellow medieval archaeologist Paul Ashbee as a "discerning systematiser of the great array of Anglo-Saxon grave furnishings". She led major excavations on Anglo-Saxon cemeteries at Finglesham in Kent and Worthy Park in Hampshire.
Vera Ivy Evison was a British archaeologist and professor of archaeology at Birkbeck College,University of London. She was a specialist in Post-Roman Britain and early-Medieval England
Tania Marguerite Dickinson is a British archaeologist specialising in early-medieval Britain. Dickinson undertook undergraduate study at St. Anne's College,Oxford and postgraduate study at the Institute of Archaeology (Oxford). Her doctoral thesis,titled The Anglo-Saxon burial sites of the upper Thames region,and their bearing on the history of Wessex,circa AD 400-700,was supervised by Sonia Chadwick Hawkes and Christopher Hawkes.
Carol L. Neuman de Vegvar is an art historian and Professor of Fine Arts at Ohio Wesleyan University.
Jennifer O'Reilly FRSA MRIA (1943–2016) was a medieval historian of Britain and Ireland known for her work on text and image,the writings of Bede,and medieval iconography.
