John-henry Clay
Associate Professor
Department of History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
After obtaining BA in Archaeology (2001) and MA in Early Medieval Studies (2002) from the University of York, I worked for two years as a commercial archaeologist in the Republic of Ireland. I returned to the Centre for Medieval Studies at York in 2004 to start my PhD, a study of Christian missionaries in eighth-century Germany. A book based on my thesis, the melodramatically titled In the Shadow of Death, was published in 2010. After completing my PhD I conducted fieldwork in Germany (2009), and spent six months as a visiting researcher at the Institute for Medieval Research of the Austrian Academy of Sciences in Vienna (2009-2010). I was appointed Lecturer at Durham University in October 2010. From September 2015 to May 2016 I was a visiting Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Research Interest
My main research interests are in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon history and archaeology, particularly concerning themes of conversion and religious identity, landscape perception and the transition from the late Roman to the early medieval period both in Britain and on the Continent.
Publications
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Clay, John-Henry (2015). The everyday life of monastic communities in Anglo-Saxon England and the Germanic west up to 1000: The literary sources. In La vie quotidienne des moines en Orient et en Occident (IVe-Xe siècle) Vol. I: Létat des sources. Delouis, Olivier & Mossakowska-Gaubert, Maria Cairo: French Institute of Oriental Archaeology. 493-508.
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Clay, John-Henry. (2013). Adventus, warfare and the Britons in the development of West Saxon identity. In Post-Roman Transitions: Christian and Barbarian Identities in the Early Medieval West. Pohl, Walter. & Heydemann, Gerda. Turnhout: Brepols. 14: 169-213.
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Clay, John-Henry (2008). Sacred Landscapes and the Conversion of Eighth-Century Hessia. Landscapes 9(2): 1-25.
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Clay, John-Henry (2009). Gift-giving and books in the letters of St Boniface and Lul. Journal of Medieval History 35(4): 313-325.
