Perkins, Dr Nicholas

Job Title: CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow
College: St Hugh's
Period/ Subject: Medieval

Email address: nicholas.perkins@ell.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:
 

Late-medieval poetry and manuscripts; gifts and books; medieval romance; Thomas Hoccleve; biblical allusion; modern responses to Old English literature. In 2011–12 I shall be curating a major

exhibition of romance manuscripts and materials at the Bodleian Library.

Teaching Areas:

Old and Middle English to about 1550; aspects of English language and critical theory.

Recent Publications:

‘Ekphrasis and Narrative in Emaré and Sir Eglamour of Artois’, in The Contexts of Medieval Romance, ed. Rhiannon Purdie and Mike Cichon (Cambridge: Brewer, forthcoming)

‘Writing, Authority and Bureaucracy’, in The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature, ed. Greg Walker and Elaine Treharne (Oxford: OUP, forthcoming)

Anglo-Saxon Culture and the Modern Imagination (ed. with David Clark; Cambridge: Brewer, forthcoming)

‘Haunted Hoccleve? The Regiment of Princes, the Troilean Intertext, and Conversations with the Dead’, Chaucer Review 43 (2008), 103–39

‘Thomas Hoccleve: La Male Regle’, in A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture, c.1350–1500, ed. Peter Brown (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007)

‘Reading the Bible in Sawles Warde and Ancrene Wisse’, Medium Ævum 72 (2003), 207–37

Other Information:

Medieval Studies at Oxford

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