Staff Profiles

Anne Redgate is a Lecturer in History at Newcastle University. Her areas of expertise are Anglo-Saxon England, Britain 800-1066 and early medieval Armenia.

Research Interests

My current research interests are: political ideology, and royal image-building and its propagation from the period of Late Antiquity to c. 1066 in Armenia and in the British Isles; penance in early medieval Armenia and early medieval England.

Current Work

I am currently working on a book for the Edwin Mellen Press, about royal portraits and concepts of good kingship in tenth- and eleventh-century Armenia, with special reference to the portraits that feature in the external decoration of the Church of the Holy Cross, on Aghtamar island.

• Articles

  • Redgate AE. Epigraphy in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Armenia: Inscriptions as Bridges and Boundaries. Armenian Folia Anglistika: International Journal of English Studies 2019, 15(2), 135-154.
  • Redgate AE. Seeking Promotion in the Challenging 640s: The Amatuni Church at Ptghni, Ideas of Political Authority, and Paulician Challenge - a Background to the Teaching of Anania Shirakatsi. Aramazd: Armenian Journal of Near Eastern Studies 2015, 9(1), 163-176.
  • Redgate AE. Faces from the Past: Aghtamar, the Anglo-Saxon Alfred Jewel, and the Sasanian Chosroes Dish - Ideas and Influences in Portraiture. Banber Matenadarani 2014, 21, 331-340.
  • Redgate AE. Vernacular Liturgy in England and Armenia from the Fifth to the Eleventh Centuries. Armenian Folia Anglistika: International Journal of English Studies 2008, 2(4), 144-161.
  • Redgate AE. Myth and Reality: Armenian Identity in the Early Middle Ages. National Identities 2007, 9(4), 281-306.
  • Redgate AE. An Armenian physician at the early tenth-century court of Louis III of Provence? The case of the Autun Glossary. Al-Masaq 2007, 19(2), 83-98.

• Authored Books

  • Redgate AE. Royal Building Programs in Tenth and Eleventh Century Armenia: The Island City of Aghtamar. Lewiston, New York: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2022.
  • Redgate AE. Religion, Politics and Society in Britain, 800-1066. London: Routledge, 2014.
  • Redgate AE. The Armenians, Greek translation. Athens: Odisseas, 2006.
  • Redgate AE. Armeni (Czech translation of The Armenians). Prague, Czech Republic: Nakladatelstvi Lidove Noviny, 2003.
  • Redgate AE. Author requested this item be deleted. Author unlinked. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000.
  • Redgate AE. The Armenians. Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 1998.

• Book Chapters

  • Redgate AE. Armenian Iran in the History of Vaspurakan (Ninth to Tenth Century). In: Richard G. Hovannisian, ed. Armenian Communities of Persia/Iran: History, Trade, Culture. Costa Mesa, CA: Mazda Publishers, 2021, pp.59-76.
  • Redgate AE. The Foundations of Hamshen and Armenian Descent Myths: Parallels and Interconnections. In: Hovannisian, R.G, ed. Armenian Pontus: The Trebizond-Black Sea Communities. Costa Mesa, California, USA: Mazda Publishers, 2009, pp.113-136.
  • Redgate AE. Morale, cohesion and power in the first centuries of Amatuni Hamshen. In: Simonian, HH, ed. The Hemshin: History, society and identity in the Highlands of Northeast Turkey. London and New York: Routledge, 2007, pp.3-18.
  • Redgate AE. Catholicos John III's Against the Paulicians and the Paulicians of Tephrike. In: Hovannisian, R.G, ed. Armenian Sebastia/Sivas and Lesser Armenia. Los Angeles, USA: Mazda Publishers, 2004, pp.81-110.
  • Redgate AE. Alfred, Anglo-Saxons, Arthur (long entries); Adomnan, Aethelthryth, Aidan, Alcuin, Bede, Chad, Columba, Cuthbert, Guthlac, Heathfield, Justus, Oswald, Paulinus, Wilfrid, Willibrord (short entries). In: Cannon, J, ed. The Oxford Companion to British History. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997.

• Conference Proceedings (inc. Abstracts)

  • Redgate AE. Seeking promotion in the challenging 640s: the Amatuni church at Ptghni and ideas of political authority - a background to Anania Shirakatsi's teaching. In: International Conference Devoted to the 1400th Birthday Anniversary of the Great Armenian Naturalist, Mathematician and Thinker Anania Shirakatsi. 2012, Yerevan, Armenia. Submitted.
  • Redgate AE. National Letters, Vernacular Christianity and National Identity in Early Medieval Armenia. In: International Conference dedicated to the 1600th Anniversary of the Armenian Letters Creation: Collection of papers. 2006, Yerevan, Armenia: National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia.

• Report

  • Redgate AE. The Teaching of Comparative History and the Example of Medieval Armenia. London, UK: Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, 2005. Discussion Paper.

• Reviews

  • Redgate AE. Shining a spotlight on Armenians: exchanges on the Silk Road - Review of Christiane Esche-Ramshorn, East-West Artistic Transfer Through Rome, Armenia and The Silk Road: Sharing St Peter’s (London and New York: Routledge, 2022). Journal of Art Historiography 2023, (29), AER1.
  • Redgate AE. Writing, Kingship and Power in Anglo-Saxon England edited by Rory Naismith and David A. Woodman (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). The English Historical Review 2020, 135(573), 450-452.
  • Redgate AE. Æthelred: The Unready by Levi Roach (New Haven, Conn. and London: Yale University Press, 2016). The American Historical Review 2018, 123(3), 1003-1004.
  • Redgate AE. Murray, A., 'Suicide in the middle ages, vol 2: The curse on self-murder', Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000 [Book review]. Continuity and Change 2002, 17(3), 471-473.