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, broadly: 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. My particular interests are royal building programmes, royal portraits, and concepts of good kingship in tenth- and eleventh-century Armenia, especially as manifested on the island of Aghtamar in Lake Van and in its early-tenth-century church, considered in an international context and from a comparative perspective. I am also interested in penance in early medieval Armenia and early medieval England.

Current Work

I am currently working on penance in Armenia (fifth-eleventh centuries).

• 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. The Amatuni Hunting Scenes at the Seventh-Century Church of Ptłni: Patron and "Propaganda". Journal of the Society for Armenian Studies 2012, 21, 11-26.
  • 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. Virtues of the Good King in Tenth- and Eleventh-Century Armenia: A Study of Architecture, Statuary, Inscriptions, and Family History in the Church at Aghtamar. Lewiston, NY: The Edwin Mellen Press, 2024. In Press.
  • 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. Liturgy, law and self-representation: Christian kingship in England and Armenia from the late-ninth to the mid-eleventh century. In: 21st International Congress of Historical Sciences. 2010, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
  • 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. Review of Armen Petrosyan, The Problem of Armenian Origins: Myth, History, Hypothesis (Journal of Indo-European Studies Monograph No. 66). Journal of Indo-European Studies 2023, 51(1&2), 257-257.
  • 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.