New editions and translations of the two earliest texts for the rite of royal anointing in Anglo-Saxon England.
Dr David Pratt is Fellow and Director of Studies in History at Downing College, Cambridge. His principal research interest is in the political thought and court culture of the early Middle Ages, especially in Anglo-Saxon England and the Carolingian world. His first book, The Political Thought of King Alfred the Great (2007), is a comprehensive study of political thought at King Alfred's court.