Alan Thacker

853 total citations
14 papers, 73 citations indexed

About

Alan Thacker is a scholar working on Classics, History and Language and Linguistics. According to data from OpenAlex, Alan Thacker has authored 14 papers receiving a total of 73 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 13 papers in Classics, 10 papers in History and 1 paper in Language and Linguistics. Recurrent topics in Alan Thacker's work include Medieval Literature and History (11 papers), Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (7 papers) and Byzantine Studies and History (6 papers). Alan Thacker is often cited by papers focused on Medieval Literature and History (11 papers), Historical and Religious Studies of Rome (7 papers) and Byzantine Studies and History (6 papers). Alan Thacker collaborates with scholars based in United Kingdom, Mexico and United States. Alan Thacker's co-authors include Richard Sharpe, Bob Harris, Carenza Lewis, Eric Hopkins, David Rollason, Michelle Brown, Scott DeGregorio, Calvin B. Kendall, G. W. Bernard and Sarah Foot and has published in prestigious journals such as Early Medieval Europe, Northern History and Midland History.

In The Last Decade

Alan Thacker

9 papers receiving 46 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alan Thacker United Kingdom	6	51	46	9	9	8	14	73
Barbara Yorke United Kingdom	5	54 1.1×	48 1.0×	9 1.0×	4 0.4×	5 0.6×	16	79
Clare Stancliffe United Kingdom	5	53 1.0×	43 0.9×	8 0.9×	11 1.2×	15 1.9×	9	81
Susan Kelly United Kingdom	2	47 0.9×	35 0.8×	6 0.7×	12 1.3×	4 0.5×	4	66
Scott DeGregorio United States	6	52 1.0×	40 0.9×	20 2.2×	7 0.8×	16 2.0×	16	70
T. A. Heslop United Kingdom	5	49 1.0×	40 0.9×	5 0.6×	20 2.2×	3 0.4×	15	76
Charles D. Wright United States	5	59 1.2×	30 0.7×	16 1.8×	5 0.6×	6 0.8×	25	84
Graham A. Loud United Kingdom	5	61 1.2×	58 1.3×	12 1.3×	8 0.9×	1 0.1×	29	75
Lawrence Nees United States	5	33 0.6×	27 0.6×	4 0.4×	18 2.0×	4 0.5×	20	55
Elizabeth M. Tyler United Kingdom	5	41 0.8×	30 0.7×	6 0.7×	2 0.2×	4 0.5×	18	64
Montague Rhodes James United States	6	59 1.2×	48 1.0×	10 1.1×	12 1.3×	6 0.8×	31	91

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All Works

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14 of 14 papers shown

1.

Thacker, Alan. (2024). Medieval Archaeology, Art and Architecture at Chester.

2.

Thacker, Alan. (2016). The Toller Lecture. Read at the John Rylands Library, March 2015. Bede‘s Idea of the English. Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. 92(1). 1–26.

3.

Thacker, Alan. (2014). The origin and early development of Rome’s intramural cults: a context for the cult of Sant’Agnese in Agone. Mélanges de l'École française de Rome. Moyen Age. 126-1.

4.

Thacker, Alan. (2013). Dynastic monasteries and family cults: Edward the Elder’s sainted kindred. 264–279.

5.

Thacker, Alan. (2012). Patrons of Rome: the cult of Sts Peter and Paul at court and in the city in the fourth and fifth centuries. Early Medieval Europe. 20(4). 380–406. 2 indexed citations

6.

Thacker, Alan. (2011). Popes, Patriarchs and Archbishops and the Origins of the Cult of the Martyrs in Northern Italy. Studies in Church History. 47. 51–79. 1 indexed citations

7.

DeGregorio, Scott, Michelle Brown, Sarah Foot, et al.. (2010). The Cambridge Companion to Bede. Cambridge University Press eBooks. 14 indexed citations

8.

Thacker, Alan & Richard Sharpe. (2002). Local saints and local churches in the early medieval West. Oxford University Press eBooks. 17 indexed citations

9.

Thacker, Alan. (1998). The power of the Word: the influence of the Bible on early medieval politics. Early Medieval Europe. 7(3).

10.

Thacker, Alan. (1998). Memorializing Gregory the Great: the origin and transmission of a papal cult in the seventh and early eighth centuries. Early Medieval Europe. 7(1). 59–84. 11 indexed citations

11.

Thacker, Alan, D. M. Palliser, G. W. Bernard, et al.. (1986). The Mildrith Legend: A Study in Early Medieval Hagiography in England. Midland History. 11(1). 138–149. 5 indexed citations

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Thacker, Alan. (1985). KINGS, SAINTS, AND MONASTERIES IN PRE-VIKING MERCIA. Midland History. 10(1). 1–25. 11 indexed citations

13.

Thacker, Alan. (1982). Chester and Gloucester: Early Ecclesiastical Organization in Two Mercian Burhs. Northern History. 18(1). 199–211. 2 indexed citations

14.

Harris, Bob, Alan Thacker, & Carenza Lewis. (1979). A history of the County of Chester. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 10 indexed citations

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