Reviews

an outstanding work of synthesis and originality ... With admirable conciseness and clarity, Wallace-Hadrill summarizes modern scholarship in a wide variety of fields, from archaeology to medicine ... a fitting legacy from one of England's foremost historians. Mary Clayton, University College, Dublin, Review of English Studies Professor Wallace-Hadrill's commentary to the HE has a secure future ... he has left us a posthumous legacy that is not only monumental in itself ... but certain of a permanent place among the books indispensable to students of Bede and his age. Walter Goffart, University of Toronto, Journal of Ecclesiastical History