H. R. Loyn

Henry Royston Loyn (16 June 1922–9 October 2000), FBA, was a British historian specialising in the history of Anglo-Saxon England, whose eminence in his field made him a natural candidate to run the Sylloge of the Coins of the British Isles, which he chaired from 1979 to 1993. The Sylloge's natural emphasis is on Anglo-Saxon numismatics. Loyn's mastery of an extensive and specialised literature in an often-contentious area of history produced over four decades a series of cautious, even conservative syntheses of continuity and evolving changes in late Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman England, universally well-received in the academic press, which are still staples of student reading-lists.

Aside from numerous articles, occasional lectures such as "The "matter of Britain": A historian's perspective" (a Creighton Trust lecture), and his main publications ("see below"), he edited "The Middle Ages: A Concise Encyclopedia".He has been praised for his "felicitous, economic writing style" [ C. Warren Hollister, reviewing "The Norman Conquest" in "American Historical Review". 1966:534.]

elected publications

*"Anglo-Saxon England and the Norman Conquest" (vol. I in (Asa Briggs, editor), "The Social and Economic History of England", (1962)
*"The Making of the English Nation: From the Anglo-Saxons to Edward I" (1963)
*"The Norman Conquest" (1965) A synthesis for the general reader.
* (editor), "A Wulfstan Manuscript " (1971). Introduction to a facsimile edition of a major source document for Wulfstan II, Archbishop of York
*"The Vikings in Britain" (1977)
*"The Governance of Anglo-Saxon England, 500-1087" (series "The Governance of England") (1984)
*"The English Church, 940-1154" (series "The Medieval World") (2000)

Notes