Alex Woolf is a British medievalist based at the University of St Andrews, and one of the most pioneering scholars in British medieval studies. Among other things, he has revised scholarly understanding of Caedualla and revolutionized early medieval Scottish studies by reidentifying the location of Fortriu. He has been selected to do the second volume in the upcoming New Edinburgh History of Scotland series, From Pictland to Alba: Scotland, 789-1070 (UOE Press, forthcoming). The University of St Andrews was founded between 1410 and 1413 and is the oldest university in Scotland (and third oldest in the English speaking world). ... Cadwallon ap Cadfan (c. ... Fortriu or the the Kingdom of Fortriu is the name given by historians for an ancient Pictish kingdom, and often used synonymously with Pictland in general. ...

Publications

• ‘Romancing the Celts: Segmentary societies and the geography of Romanization in the north-west provinces’ in R. Laurence and J. Berry, ed., Cultural Identity in the Roman Empire, (Routledge, 1998)
• ‘Pictish Matriliny: reconsidered’, in Innes Review, 49, 147-167, 1998
• ‘The Russes, the Byzantines and Middle Saxon Emporia’ in M. Anderton (ed.) , Beyond the Emporia, (Cruithne Press, 1999)
• ‘Community, Identity and Kingship in Early England’, in W. O. Frazer and A. Tyrrell, (ed.), Social Identity in Early Medieval Britain, (Leicester University Press, 2000)
• ‘The Moray Question and the Kingdom of Alba in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries’, Scottish Historical Review, 79, 145-164 (2000)
• ‘View from the West: An Irish perspective on West Saxon dynastic practice’, in N. Higham and D. Hill, (ed.), Edward the Elder, 899-924, (Routledge, 2001)
• ‘The Verturian Hegemony: a mirror in the North’, in M. P. Brown and C. A. Farr, (ed.), Mercia: an Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe, (Leicester University Press, 2001)
• ‘Amlaíb Cuarán and the Gael, 941-981’ in S. Duffy, (ed.), Medieval Dublin III, 34-44. (Dublin, 2002)
• ‘An interpolation in the text of Gildas’ De Excidio Britanniae’, Peritia 16, 161-67 (2002)
• ‘The Britons: from Romans to Barbarians’, in H.-W. Goetz, J. Jarnut and W. Pohl, (ed.), Regna and Gentes: The Relationship between Late Antique and Early medieval Peoples and Kingdoms in the Transformation of the Roman World, 345-380 (Leiden 2003)
• ‘The diocese of Sudreyar’, in S. Imsen, (ed.), Ecclesia Nidrosiensis 1153-1537: Søkelys på Nidaroskirkens og Nidarosprovinsens historie, 171-182. (Trondheim 2003)
• ‘Caedualla Rex Brettonum and the passing of the Old North’, Northern History 41.1, 1-20 (2004)
• ‘The Age of Sea-Kings: 900-1300’, in D. Omand, (ed.), The Argyll Book, 94-109. (Edinburgh 2004)
• ‘Dun Nechtain, Fortriu and the Geography of the Picts’, (forthcoming).

External links

• Staff Profile at UoStA