La profesora Owen-Crocker profundiza en el rico tapiz de la literatura y la cultura anglosajonas, con un enfoque particular en la importancia de la vestimenta y los textiles medievales. Sus investigaciones académicas la han llevado a impartir conferencias a nivel internacional, compartiendo su experiencia sobre la cultura material del pasado. También ha brindado asesoramiento invaluable a museos y unidades arqueológicas, ayudando a iluminar la historia de la vestimenta medieval. Sus ideas han sido reconocidas a través de apariciones en programas de televisión y radio, consolidando su reputación como una voz líder en su campo.
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.