Interview with James Palmer

Dr James Palmer is a Lecturer in Medieval History at the University of St Andrews. He obtained his PhD from the University of Sheffield in 2004 under the supervision of Prof. Sarah Foot, before taking up his first lectureship at the University of Leicester in 2005 and then holding a Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship at the University of Nottingham in 2006-07. He has published articles on a variety of subjects, ranging from the missionaries of the eighth and ninth centuries to the understanding of time in the Early Middle Ages. His first monograph – Anglo-Saxons in a Frankish World, 690-900 – was published by Brepols in 2009, and his second – Apocalypse and Authority in the Early Middle Ages – will be published soon. We decided to talk to him about his research and about his thoughts on academia more generally. .