The Making of English Law: King Alfred to the Twelfth Century, Legislation and its Limits, Volume I

Patrick Wormald was a college tutor and university lecturer at Christ Church, Oxford. He was previously a lecturer in Medieval History at the University of Glasgow and a fellow of All Souls College, Oxford. His publications include The Anglo-Saxons (co-editor, 1982) and Ideal and Reality in Frankish and Anglo-Saxon Society (editor, 1983), as well as numerous articles on the legal, religious and cultural history of early medieval Britain and Europe.