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Charles Insley Editor

Charles Insley is Senior Lecturer in medieval History at the University of Manchester. He is currently Director of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies. He has written extensively on Anglo-Saxon and Welsh charters and his edition of the Anglo-Saxon Charters of Exeter Cathedral is forthcoming, as is a biography of the first king of the English, Æthelstan (924-939). Gale R. Owen-Crocker is Professor Emerita of The University of Manchester, UK. She has published extensively on early medieval culture, especially dress and textiles.