Patrick Wormald is 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.