H. R. Loyn

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H[enry] R. Loyn (1922 — 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"^[1]

[edit] Selected 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)