Faculty Member, English
Jesus College
Thesis Title: 'The Uses of Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts c. 1066-1200'
Prof. M. B. Parkes
Prof. M. R. Godden
About
I completed my doctorate in 2008. I am currently a stipendiary lecturer at Jesus College, Oxford. Previously, I was the postdoctoral researcher on the Mapping Medieval Chester project, based at Swansea University.
My doctoral thesis investigated various types of marks eleventh- and twelfth-century readers left in manuscripts which had been produced in Anglo-Saxon England. It used this evidence to read literary and cultural continuities across the Norman Conquest, and to understand medieval readers' attitudes to manuscript books.
My personal research focuses on various aspects of medieval literary culture and book use. I am currently working on several projects: an essay on the beheading motif in various iterations of the Life of St Edmund; an essay on the possibility of using English and Anglo-Norman Lives of St Margaret to reopen the debate on 'the continuity of English prose'; and an essay on the transmission of Matthew Paris's 'Deeds of the Abbots of St Albans'. I am also co-authoring a paper on the hand of the Bury monk and prolific poet, John Lydgate.
I am editing a late-twelfth-century Latin encomium to Chester by Lucian, a local monk. Excerpts from my edition and translation appear on the Mapping Medieval Chester website. I have recently begun contributing to the 'Production and Use of English Manuscripts, 1060 to 1220' project, based at the University of Leicester.
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