What I’ve published

In case it’s interesting, here’s a list of things I’ve published. Feel free to contact me if you’d like to look at, discuss, or complain bitterly about any of them.

 

Out right now!

Communal creativity in the making of the Beowulf manuscript: Towards a history of reception for the Nowell Codex, Library of the Written Word 67 – The Manuscript World 10 (Leiden: Brill, 2018)

‘Configuring Stasis: the appeal to tradition in the reign of Cnut the Great’, in Stasis in the Medieval World, eds. V. Symons and M. D. J. Bintley, New Middle Ages (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017), 179-204

‘The two artists of the Nowell Codex Wonders of the East’, SELIM 21 (2015-2016): 105-54

Edited with Michael Bintley, Sensory Perception in the Medieval West, Utrecht Series in Medieval Literacy 34 (Utrecht: Brepols, 2016)

‘“Whistle While You Work”: Scribal engagement with Old English poetic texts’, in Thomson and Bintley, eds., Sensory Perception in the Medieval West (2016), 99-122

‘Introduction’, in Thomson and Bintley, eds., Sensory Perception in the Medieval West (2016), 1-5

‘Manuscript stability and literary corruption: our failure to understand the Beowulf manuscript’, Quaestio Insularis 16 (2015): 54-71

‘Scribes, sources, and readers: Using a digital edition to develop understanding of the Nowell Codex’, Poetica 83 (2015): 59-77

An Analysis of Ernst Kantorowicz’s ‘The King’s Two Bodies’ (London: Macat, 2015)

With others: ‘Overall findings and technical report of ESSPIN Composite Survey 1 (2012)’, Education Sector Support Programme in Nigeria (ESSPIN) / DfID Report ESSPIN 060, May 2013, online at http://www.esspin.org/resources/report/349

 

 Forthcoming

‘The overlooked women of the Old English “Passion of Saint Christopher”‘, Medievalia et Humanistica 44 (2018, in preparation)

‘Grotesque, fascinating, transformative: The power of a strange face in the story of Saint Christopher’, Essays in Medieval Studies 34 (2018, in preparation)

‘Telling the story: Retelling Saint Christopher for an Anglo-Saxon Lay Audience’ (in preparation)

‘Capital Indications: How Scribe A thought readers should engage with the Nowell codex’, in Jane Roberts, ed., Language, Culture, and Society: Proceedings of the Fifth Conference of English and Russian Studies (in preparation)

‘Nicaea and Aquilina’, ‘Alexander’s mother and sisters’, and ‘The bearded women and foul women in Wonders of the East’, in Irina Dumitrescu, ed., Anglo-Saxon Women: An Anthology (in preparation)

‘Sigmundr Fáfnisbani at the eleventh-century court of Cnut’, in Richard North and Erin Goeres, eds., The Siege of London (in preparation)

‘Introduction: Stories and their tellers’, in S. C. Thomson, Francesca Brooks, and Emily Klimova, eds., Medieval Stories and Storytelling: Multimedia and Multi-temporal Perspectives (in preparation)

‘Towards a Poetics of Storytelling, or, why could the Anglo-Saxons not stop telling the story of Judith?’, in Medieval Stories and Storytelling: Multimedia and Multi-temporal Perspectives (in preparation)

Strangers at the Gate! The (un)welcome movement of people and ideas in the medieval world, Explorations in Medieval Culture (Leiden: Brill, in preparation)

‘Making an old text new: Reading Beowulf in an eleventh-century collage’, in postmedieval (in preparation)

 

As series editor:

Miriam Edlich-Muth, ed., Medieval Romances Across European Borders, Medieval Narratives in Transmission 1 (Utrecht: Brepols, forthcoming)

Medieval Stories and Storytelling: Multimedia and Multi-temporal Perspectives, Medieval Narratives in Transmission 2 (Utrecht: Brepols, in preparation)

Diane Auslander, with Dorothy Africa, Dorothy Bray, and Maeve Callan, Saint Darerca of Killeavy: Shifting Perspectives on the Life of a Foundational Saint, Medieval Narratives in Transmission 3 (Utrecht: Brepols, in preparation)

 

Reviews

The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives, edited by Susanna Fein. York Medieval Press, York 2016. 24 cm, XI + 253 p., index, ill., £60.00. ISBN 978-1-903153-65-9, Scriptorium (forthcoming).

Textus Roffensis: Law, Language, and Libraries in Early Medieval England, edited by Bruce O’Brien and Barbara Bombi. Studies in the Early Middles Ages 30, Brepols 2015. XIV + 415 p., index, ill., £100.00. ISBN 978-2-503542-33-1, in Scriptorium (forthcoming).

A. J. Ford. Marvel and Artefact: The ‘Wonders of the East’ in Its Manuscript Contexts. Library of the Written Word – The Manuscript World 45. Leiden/Boston, MA: Brill, 2016, xvi + 178 pp., 38 figures, 0 maps, 1 table, € 109.00/$ 141.00, in Anglia 135 (2017): 369-72

Tracey-Anne Cooper, Monk-Bishops and the English Benedictine Reform Movement: Reading London BL, Cotton Tiberius A. iii in Its Manuscript Context. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, Toronto 2015 (Studies and Texts, 193). 24 cm, XVIII + 368 p., index, pl., ill., $95.00. ISBN 978-0-88844-193-5, in Scriptorium (forthcoming).

[Giovanni Boccaccio], On Famous Women: The Middle English Translation of Boccaccio’s ‘De Mulieribus Claris.’ Edited from London, British Library, MS Additional 10304, by Janet Cowen. Universitätsverlag Winter, Heidelberg 2015 (Middle English Texts, 52). 24 cm, LI + 131 p., ill., index, €66,00. ISBN 978-3-8253-6455-7, in Scriptorium (forthcoming).

Judith Kaup. The Old English Judith: A Study of Poetic Style, Theological Tradition, and Anglo-Saxon Christian Concepts. With a Foreword by Hugh Magennis. Lewiston, NY/Queenston, ON/Lampeter: Mellen, 2013, ix + 412 pp., $ 159.95 (hb)/$ 49.95 (pb), in Anglia 134 (2016): 545-49.

‘Manuscript studies, palaeography, and facsimiles’, ‘The poems of the Junius manuscript’, and  ‘Beowulf and the Beowulf Manuscript’ in ‘Old English’, in The Year’s Work in English Studies 94, 95, and 96, associate editor A. S. G. Edwards (Oxford: Oxford University Press for The English Association, 2015, 2016, and 2017).