Richard Sowerby, Lecturer in Early Medieval Insular History, University of Edinburgh

Richard Sowerby is Lecturer in Early Medieval Insular History at the University of Edinburgh.

Shortlisted for the 2017 Whitfield Book Prize of the Royal Historical Society

Winner of the 2017 Best First Monograph Prize by the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists

"This book is very well written. It includes an excellent up-to-date bibliography that should be helpful to any scholar in the field. This book should be of interests to scholars who focus on early medieval Europe and is highly recommended." - Caitlin Corning, Anglican and Episcopal History

"Through careful attendance to nuance and respect for the sources, Sowerby builds an argument explaining the significant changes to the stature of angels in England over the course of the early middle ages. The book is primarily concerned not with abstract theology but aims to use ideas about angels as a means to access the culture and mind set of early medieval England." - Jonathan DavisSecord, Reading Religion

"Overall, Angels in Early Medieval England is an intelligent and spirited book that makes a lasting contribution to our knowledge of the thought-world of the Anglo-Saxons. It can be profitably read by anyone interested in Old English literature, Medieval Latin literature, and early Christian intellectual history in general. Sowerby emerges in this book as an original and humane voice, indifferent to trends, whose arguments are impelled by an earnest desire to understand medieval people as thoroughly as we can understand them from the fragmentary and tantalizing records they left to posterity. His work is sure to inspire a great deal of discussion, admiration, and imitation." - Leonard Neidorf, Anglia

"Meticulously researched, beautifully written and sensitively argued, many phrases will stay in the mind. ... This book is a treasure trove for its subject, and a pleasure to read." - Marie Lovatt, Journal of Ecclesiastical History