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Jayatilaka, Dr Rohini
Job Title: English Faculty Senior Research Fellow and Project Manager
College: Pembroke
Period/ Subject: Medieval
Email address: rohini.jayatilaka@ell.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
Boethius in Early Medieval Europe: Commentary on The Consolation of Philosophy from the 9th to the 11th centuries; The Alfredian Boethius Project: The Alfredian Boethius and medieval commentaries on Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae; Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: written sources used by Anglo-Saxon authors.
Teaching Areas:
Anglo-Saxon history; History of the Book; Anglo-Saxon palaeography and manuscript studies.
Recent Publications:
'Fontes Anglo-Saxonici on the World-Wide Web', Medieval English Studies Newsletter (Tokyo) 41 (1999), 11-39
'How Well Read were the Anglo-Saxons?: The World Wide Web Version of the Fontes Anglo-Saxonici Register', Old English Newsletter 33.3 (2000), 12-14
‘The Fontes Anglo-Saxonici Database: the Stand-Alone Version’, Old English Newsletter 36 (2002), 17-23 [with Malcolm Godden]
Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: A Register of Written Sources Used by Anglo-Saxon Authors [CD-ROM Version 1.1] ed. Malcolm Godden and Rohini Jayatilaka, with David Miles (Oxford: Fontes Anglo-Saxonici Project, English Faculty, Oxford University, 2002)
‘The Old English Benedictine Rule: writing for women and men’, Anglo-Saxon England 32 (2003),147-187
‘Finán [St Finán] (d. 661)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004
‘Old English Manuscripts and Readers’, in A Companion to Medieval Poetry, ed. Corinne Saunders, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture 67 (Oxford, 2010), pp. 51-64
‘King Alfred and his circle’ in The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol I, ed. Richard Gameson (Cambridge, 2012), pp. 670-78
'Counting the Heads of the Hydra: the Development of the Early Medieval Commentary on Boethius's Consolation of Philosopy', in Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella, ed. Mariken Teeuwen and Sinead O' Sullivan (2012) [with Malcolm Godden]
'Descriptio terrae: Geographical Notes in Boethius’s De consolatione Philosophiae', in Rethinking and Recontextualizing Glosses: New Perspectives in the Study of Late Anglo-Saxon Glossography, ed. Patrizia Lendinara, et al., forthcoming 2011
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