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The Memory of St Patrick in England and Europe, c.600-c.900 AD (2025)
Journal Article
CARDWELL, S. (in press). The Memory of St Patrick in England and Europe, c.600-c.900 AD. Nottingham Medieval Studies,

This paper challenges the idea that St Patrick had little influence beyond Ireland before the tenth century. By surveying evidence for the spread of Patrick’s name, story and writings in Anglo-Saxon England and Merovingian and Carolingian Francia (c.... Read More about The Memory of St Patrick in England and Europe, c.600-c.900 AD.

Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew (2025)
Journal Article
Cardwell, S. (2025). Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew. Early Medieval Europe, 33(2), 183-219. https://doi.org/10.1111/emed.12762

This article examines a previously neglected fragment of an early medieval commentary on Matthew’s Gospel, the bifolium Hereford Cathedral Library, P. II. 10. I argue on palaeographical grounds that this fragment was produced in Bede’s monastery of W... Read More about Biblical exegesis at Wearmouth‐Jarrow before Bede? The Hereford commentary on Matthew.