Fanous, Dr Samuel

Job Title: Head of Publishing, Bodleian Library
Period/ Subject: Medieval
Email address: samuel.fanous@bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Research Interests:

Medieval English literature, especially visionary and devotional writing, autobiographical texts, and hagiography; authorial motivation, posthumous reputation, and literary identity.

Recent Publications:

Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism, ed. Samuel Fanous and Vincent Gillespie  (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

‘1349-1412: Texts’, with Roger Ellis, in Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism (Cambridge University Press, 2011).

The Life of Christina of Markyate, trans. C.H. Talbot, revised with an Introduction and Notes by Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser (Oxford University Press, 2008; rpt. 2010).

Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-Century Holy Woman, ed. Samuel Fanous and Henrietta Leyser (Routledge, 2004).

‘Christina of Markyate and the Double Crown’, in Christina of Markyate: A Twelfth-Century Holy Woman (Routledge, 2004).

‘Measuring the Pilgrim’s Progress: Internal Emphases in the Book of Margery Kempe’, in Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices, ed. Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead (University of Wales Press, 2000).