Michael Swanton

Michael James Swanton (born 1939) is a British historian, linguist, archaeologist and

Born in Bermondsey, in the East End of London,^[1] in childhood Swanton experienced the London blitz; he was an epileptic who suffered from bullying. A specific episode of this is referenced in Keith Richards's autobiography, Life. Disadvantaged, he failed the

• 1968-75: Ed. Summer Programmes (114th-121st) of The Royal Archaeological Institute (London).
• 1970: The Dream of the Rood (University of Manchester)
  ISBN 9780859895033
• 1970: Ed. with Knapp, J. and Jevons, F., University Perspectives (University of Manchester)
  ISBN 0-7190-0433-0
• 1970–76: Ed. The Archaeological Journal, 127-31 (Royal Archaeological Institute)
  ISBN 978-0-903986-61-8
• 1971: An Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (University of Exeter)
  ISBN 9780859893534
• 1971–2008: Gen. Ed. Exeter Medieval Texts & Studies Series (University of Exeter with Chicago University Press)
• 1973: Spearheads of the Anglo-Saxon Settlements (London: Royal Archaeological Institute)
  ISBN 0-903986-01-9
• 1974: A Corpus of Pagan Anglo-Saxon Spear-Types (Oxford: British Archaeological Reports, 7)
  ISBN 0-904531-04-X
• 1975: Anglo-Saxon Prose (London: J. M. Dent) "just the right amount of literal fidelity, with sufficient scholarship to satisfy the scholar without frightening the critic" (THES)
  ISBN 0-460-10809-3
  New and enlarged edition, 2017.
• 1975: Ed. Studies in Medieval Domestic Architecture (London: Royal Archaeological Institute)
  ISBN 0-903986-04-3 ^[5]
• 1975: With Radford, C. A. R., Arthurian Sites in the West (University of Exeter)
  ISBN 0-85989-026-0) (Revised edition, 2002) ^[5]
  "An essential vademecum for the intelligent layman" (Cornish Banner).
• 1977: Exploring Early Britain (Wakefield: EP Publishing)
  ISBN 0-7158-0472-3
• 1978: Beowulf (University of Manchester)
  ISBN 0-7190-0716-X ^[5]
  "The most readable, accurate literal translation that has yet appeared" (Anglia).
• 1978: With Glasscoe, M., Medieval Woodwork in Exeter Cathedral (Dean and Chapter of Exeter)
  ISBN 0-9503320-1-1 ^[5]
• 1979: Roof-bosses and Corbels of Exeter Cathedral (Dean and Chapter of Exeter)
  ISBN 0-9503320-2-X
• 1981: Medieval Art in Britain: a select bibliography (London)
  ISBN 0-907810-00-4
• 1982: Crisis and Development in Germanic Society 700 – 800: Beowulf and the burden of kingship (Gôppingen: Kümmerle Verlag)
  ISBN 3-87452-540-6 ^[5]
• 1984: Three Lives of the Last Englishmen (Garland Library of Medieval Literature, vol. 10, Ser. B) (New York: Garland
  ISBN 0-8240-9422-0
• 1986: St. Sidwell, an Exeter Legend (Exeter: Devon Books),
  ISBN 0-86114-781-2
• 1987: English Literature before Chaucer (Harlow: Longman),
  ISBN 0-582-49241-6
• 1991: Exeter Cathedral, a Celebration; foreword by HRH The Prince of Wales (Dean and Chapter of Exeter)
  ISBN 0-9503320-5-4
• 1996: The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (London: J. M. Dent)
  ISBN 0-460-87737-2 revised as The Anglo-Saxon Chronicles (Phoenix Press, London)^[5]
  "probably the most important book that will be published this spring" (Irish Times); "another heroic work of scholarship" (Guardian); "supplanting all its predecessors" (Medium Aevum).
• 1996: Opening the Franks Casket (University of Leicester)
  ISBN 0-901507-69-5
  ; transl. as:
• 1997: Le Couvercle du Coffret d'Auzon, Levée (Université de Lausanne)
• 2002: English Poetry before Chaucer (University of Exeter)
  ISBN 9780859896337
• 2010: The Lives of Two Offas: Vitae Offarum Duorum (Crediton: The Medieval Press)
  ISBN 978-0-9557636-8-7 ^[3]
  "accomplished and highly useful ... solid scholarly work" (Journal of English and Germanic Philology).
• 2017: Anglo-Saxon Prose: Revised and Enlarged (Gloucester: The Choir Press)
  ISBN 978-1-910864-74-6

• 1964: 'The Wife's Lament and The Husband's Message, a reconsideration', Anglia, Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 82, 269–290.
• 1966: 'An Anglian cemetery at Londesborough', Yorkshire Archaeological Journal, 41, 262-86.
• 1967: 'Des soudures décorées en gueule de loup de l'Âge Ténèbres', Revue d'Histoire de la Sidérurgie, 7, 315–27.
• 1967: 'An early Alamannic brooch from Yorkshire', The Antiquaries Journal, 47, 43–50.
• 1968: 'The Battle of Maldon: a literary caveat', Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 97, 441–450.
• 1969: 'Ambiguity and anticipation in The Dream of the Rood', Neuphilologische Mitteilungen, 79, 407–424.
• 1969: 'A rune-stone from Victoria Cave, Settle, Yorkshire', Medieval Archaeology, 12, 211–14.
• 1970: 'Bishop Acca and the cross at Hexham', Archaeologia Aeliana, 4th Series, 48, 157–68.
• 1972: 'Castle Hill, Bakewell', Derbyshire Archaeological Journal, 92, 16–27.
• 1973: 'A pre-Conquest sculptural fragment from Rochester Cathedral', Archaeologia Cantiana, 88, 201–03.
• 1974: 'A "lost" crop-mark site at Westenhanger', Archaeologia Cantiana, 88, 203–07.
• 1974: 'Finglesham Man: a documentary postscript', Antiquity, 48, 313–15.
• 1976: 'A fragmentary Life of St Mildred and other Kentish royal saints', Archaeologia Cantiana, 91, 15–27.
• 1976: 'Une version perdue du Catholicon de Jean Lagadeuc', Études Celtiques, 15, 599–605.
• 1976: 'Eine wenig bekannte Fassung von Aelfric's Glossar', Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 213, 104–107.
• 1976: 'The tutor midwife: a concentrated study in the humanities', Studies in Higher Education, I, 169-78.
• 1976: '"Daneskins": excoriation in early England', Folklore, 87, 21–28.
• 1977: 'Heroes, heroism and heroic literature', Essays and Studies, NS. 30, 1–21.
• 1978: 'Address to New Students, September 1977', University of Exeter Newsletter, 79, 1–7.
• 1979: 'A mural palimpsest from Rochester Cathedral', The Archaeological Journal, 136, 125–35.
• 1979: 'The "dancer" on the Codford cross', Anglo-Saxon Studies in Archaeology and History, Oxford, pp. 139–48.
• 1979: 'A medieval statue from Upton', Lincolnshire History and Archaeology, 14, 81.
• 1980: 'The manuscript illustration of a helmet of Benty Grange type', Journal of the Arms and Armour Society, 10, 1–5.
• 1980: 'Church archaeology in Devon', Archaeology of the Devon Landscape, Exeter, Devon County Council pp. 81–95.
  ISBN 0861 142861
• 1980: 'Middle English "Leteworth": an unnoticed tenement-descriptor', Nomina, 4, 75–77.
• 1980: 'Two foundation deposits from Devon churches', Bulletin of the Council for British Archaeology Churches Committee, 13, 24–26.
• 1980: 'An inventory of pre-Reformation church bells in Devonshire, lost or destroyed 1860–1980', International Buildings Record Bulletin, 2, sect. 4.
• 1980: 'An eye-witness account of the restoration of Exeter Cathedral lady-chapel, 1820', Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries, 34, 284-85.
• 1980–84: The Churches of Central Exeter: History and Architecture, Parish of Central Exeter, Devon.
• 1982: With Pearce, S., 'Lustleigh, South Devon: its inscribed stone, its churchyard and its parish', The Early Church in Western Britain and Ireland, British Archaeological Reports, 102, Oxford, pp. 139–44.
  ISBN 086054 1827
• 1982: 'Early graves beneath the choir of Exeter Cathedral', Bulletin of the International Society for the Study of Church Monuments, 7, 121–26.
• 1983: 'Some Exeter Cathedral documents', Report and Transactions of the Devonshire Association, 115, 123–31.
• 1983: '"A ram and a ring", Gamelyn 172 et sequ.', English Language Notes, 20, 8–10.
• 1983: 'A fifteenth-century cabalistic memorandum formerly in Morgan MS 775', The Harvard Theological Review, 76, 259–61.
• 1986–91: Honorary Degree Orations delivered by The Public Orator, 1986, et seq., University of Exeter, 1986–91.
• 1988: 'Die altenglische Judith: weiblicher Held oder frauliche Heldin', in Beck, H. ed., Heldensage und Heldendichtung im Germanischen, Berlin, pp. 289–304.
  ISBN 3110111756
• 1989: With Goulstone, J., 'Carry on Cricket – The Duke of Dorset's 1789 Tour', History Today, 39, 18–23.
• 1989: 'Library Costs', Times Higher Education Supplement, 10 November 1989.
• 1990: 'Team Believers', Times Higher Education Supplement, 16 February 1990.
• 1990: 'A further manuscript of The Siege of Jerusalem', Scriptorium, 44, 103–04.
• 1990: 'The decoration of Ernulf's nave', Friends of Rochester Cathedral Report, 1989/90, 11–18.
• 1992: 'A dividing book club of the 1840s: Wadebridge, Cornwall', Library History, 9, 106–21.
• 1992: 'Warum sollte der Trojaner "base" sein?', Shakespeare Jahrbuch, 128, 132–35.
• 1994: 'A readership (and non-readership) for Martin Chuzzlewit, 1843–44', Dickens Quarterly, 11, 115–26, 161–71.
• 1995: 'The Bayeux Tapestry: epic narrative, not stichic but stitched', in Le Saux, F., ed., The Formation of Culture in Medieval Britain, Lewiston, NY, pp. 149–69.
  ISBN 0773491198
  ; transl. as:
• 1996: 'Gobelen iz Baio: Epicheskoe skazanie ne v stikhakh, no v vyshivke', Mirovoe Drevo, 4, 47–62.
• 2000: 'King Alfred's ships: text and context', Anglo-Saxon England, 28, 1–22.
• 2017: 'Ethelred the Unready's gift to parturient women: an agate touch-stone said to ease childbirth', De Partu (online).

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