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Benjamin Savill is an Alexander von Humboldt Research Fellow at the Freie Universität Berlin (Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut). He studied at University College London and Oxford.
This book is a successful exercise. Although many scholars before him have highlighted the need to study the papal documents sent to England comparatively, Savill is the first to do so with reference to such a long period, while in the process showing excellent command of secondaryliterature written in several different European modern languages, especially German. * Francesca Tinti, Early Medieval Europe * Savill's study proves to be very fruitful. It makes a relevant contribution both to the development of the examined corpus of documents, for which it represents a new and immovable point of reference, as well as to a deeper understanding of the horizons of expectations and motives for action of the petitioners as well as the perception of the Roman Church in Anglo-Saxon England. The method used also represents an extremely useful model for researching the meaning and function of papal authority in other regions of early medieval Europe that are far from Rome. * Francesco Massetti, H-Soz-Kult *
