Le professeur Owen-Crocker explore la riche tapisserie de la littérature et de la culture anglo-saxonnes, avec un accent particulier sur l'importance des vêtements et des textiles médiévaux. Ses recherches universitaires l'ont amenée à donner des conférences à l'échelle internationale, partageant son expertise sur la culture matérielle du passé. Elle a également fourni des conseils précieux à des musées et des unités archéologiques, contribuant à éclairer l'histoire de la mode médiévale. Ses analyses ont été reconnues par des apparitions dans des émissions de télévision et de radio, consolidant sa réputation de voix de premier plan dans son domaine.
Splendid...the major overview of Anglo-Saxon clothing and textile from the 5th to 11th centuries. [...] Owen-Crocker has become the authority reconstructors call upon... A wise and scholarly book. TOEBI Newsletter
Since its establishment in 1985 the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies has regularly hosted international, interdisciplinary conferences, especially an annual Easter Conference. The 2006 MANCASS Easter conference titled ‘Royal Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England’ focused on historical contributions analysing sources of knowledge about royal power; and others which pinpointed loss of power or insecure pretensions to the crown. There were also offerings which teased material relevant to the conference theme out of artefactual and literary sources. This volume includes one long essay by Gareth Williams, surveying Anglo-Saxon coins in relation to kingly authority. There are six shorter essays, two on text, and one on parchment production as an indicator of monastic economy and royal patronage. Others focus on royal retirement into a monastery as renunciation of power by aging or vunerable monarchs, failure to lead troops against an invader, and creation of a heroic image to mask weakness in the case of Edmund Ironside.