Education
Bradley studied Anglo-Saxon at University College, Oxford, and since taught it at King"s College London then in the University of York where he eventually became a Professor of English and Related Literature.
Bradley studied Anglo-Saxon at University College, Oxford, and since taught it at King"s College London then in the University of York where he eventually became a Professor of English and Related Literature.
In his best known publication, Anglo-Saxon Poetry, Bradley has translated into modern English prose virtually the entire corpus of extant Anglo-Saxon poetry. Since 1990 he has been a research and teaching associate of the Centre for Grundtvig Studies in the Theology Faculty of the University of Aarhus, Denmark, and is currently an editor of the annual journal Grundtvig-Studier. His publications have also touched on medieval Danish historiography, Danish ballads, English medieval literature, iconography and literature in the English post-Conquest period, archaeology, 17th-century Danish and English political tracts, and English 18th-century bawdy songs.