Godden, Professor Malcolm

Job Title: Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
College: Pembroke (Post should be addressed to English Faculty)
Period/ Subject: Medieval

Email address: malcolm.godden@ell.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Compiling and editing the complete corpus of pre-1100 glosses to Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy, from 80 manuscripts, and writing an account of the history of early commentary on Boethius and its significance for early medieval European culture and scholarship.

Investigating the Old English texts traditionally associated with King Alfred.

Teaching Areas: Old English; medieval drama.

Recent Publications:

Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary and Glossary, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series 18 (Oxford, 2000)

The Old English Boethius: an Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae, ed. Malcolm Godden and Susan Irvine, 2 vols. (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2009)

'Were it not that I have bad dreams: Gregory the Great and the Anglo-Saxons on the Dangers of Dreaming', in Rome and the North: the Early Reception of Gregory the Great in Germanic Europe, ed. R. H. Bremmer Jr, K. Dekker and D. F. Johnson (Paris and Leuven, 2001), pp. 94-113

'Ælfric as Grammarian: the Evidence of his Catholic Homilies', in Early Medieval English Texts and Interpretations: studies presented to Donald G. Scragg, ed. E. Treharne and S. Rosser (Tempe, Arizona, 2002), pp. 13-29

'King Alfred's Preface and the Teaching of Latin in Anglo-Saxon England', English Historical Review 117 (2002), 596-604

'The Anglo-Saxons and the Goths: rewriting the sack of Rome', Anglo-Saxon England 31 (2002), 47-68
'The Millennium, Time and History for the Anglo-Saxons', in The Apocalyptic Year 1000: Religious Expectation and Social Change, 950-1050, ed. R. Landes, A. Gow and D. C. Van Meter (Oxford, 2003), pp. 155-80

'The Player King: identification and self-representation in King Alfred's Writings', in Alfred the Great: Papers from the Eleventh-Centenary Conferences, ed. T. Reuter (Aldershot, 2003), pp. 137-50

'Text and Eschatology in Book III of the Old English Soliloquies', Anglia 121 (2003), 177-209

'The Relations of Ælfric and Wulfstan: a Reassessment', in Wulfstan, Archbishop of York: The Proceedings of the Second Alcuin Conference, ed. M. Townend, Studies in the Early Middle Ages 10, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York (Turnhout, 2004), pp. 353-74

'The translations of Alfred and his circle, and the misappropriation of the past', H. M. Chadwick Memorial Lectures 14 (Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge, 2004)

'Alfred, Asser, and Boethius', in Latin learning and English lore: studies in Anglo-Saxon literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. K. O'Brien O'Keeffe and Andy Orchard (Toronto, 2005), Vol I, pp. 326-48

'King Alfred and the Boethius industry', in Making Sense: Constructing Meaning in Early English, ed. A. di Paolo Healey and K. Kiernan (Toronto, 2007), pp. 116-38

'Did King Alfred write anything?', Medium Ævum 76, no. 1 (2007), 1-23.

'King and counsellor in the Alfredian Boethius', in Intertexts: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach, ed. V. Blanton and H. Scheck (Tempe, Arizona, 2008), pp. 191-207

'Ælfric and the Alfredian Precedents', in A Companion to Ælfric, ed. H. Magennis and M. Swan (Leiden and Boston, 2009), pp. 139-64.

'The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the literary history of the ninth and tenth centuries', Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture, Proceedings of the British Academy 162 (2009), 93-122.

'Prologues and Epilogues in the Old English Pastoral Care, and their Carolingian models', JEGP 110 (2011), 441-73

'The Old English Life of St Neot and the Legends of King Alfred', Anglo-Saxon England 39 (2011), 193-225

'The Old English Orosius and its Sources', Anglia 129 (2011), 297-320

'Literacy in Anglo-Saxon England' (pp. 580-90) and 'Ælfric's Library' (pp. 679-84), in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. I, c. 400-1100', ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge, 2012)

Other Information:

Editor, Anglo-Saxon England

Project Director, Boethius in Early Medieval Europe

Fellow of the British Academy

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