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Caughey, Dr Anna
Job Title: College Lecturer
College: Keble
Period/ Subject: Medieval
Email address: anna.caughey@keble.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
1. Conflict and Peacemaking in Late Medieval Scotland
One of the most interesting outcomes of my doctoral research was the realisation that late medieval Scottish writing often promotes negotiation, conciliation and peacemaking over aggression. It is in fact concerned with these aims to a far greater extent than has been previously acknowledged, a matter that scholars are only now beginning to address. Having published some of my findings as a short article (‘“Methink It Grete Skill”: Conciliation, Negotiation and Forgiveness in Three Fifteenth-Century Scottish Romances’, in J. Derrick McClure and Janet Hadley Williams, ed., ‘Fresche fontanis’: Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland, forthcoming, Cambridge Scholars, 2012), I am now working to extend this research into a broad-ranging comparative study of the depiction of conflict and conflict-resolution in late medieval and early modern Scotland and England. This work will examine both the Scottish chronicles and Scottish and English romances, and will be published as a monograph in 2013-4.
2. Online edition: ‘The Electronic Morall Fabillis’
Robert Henryson’s Morall Fabillis is a late 15th-century version of (what purports to be) Aesop’s Fables, written in Older Scots. Almost half the Fables are in fact derived from the French Roman de Renart tradition, while the remainder descend from English, French and Latin versions of the Elegaic Romulus of Gualterus Anglicus. Other sources are also interspersed. There are eight witnesses, which vary dramatically in terms of which Fables are included and in what order they appear.
This project’s first phase is an online parallel-text edition of the Fabillis, allowing users to compare witnesses directly to one another and to Henryson’s sources for the first time. I will then follow up the online edition with a detailed Digital Humanities study of its uptake and usage. Using Google Analytics embedded in the code of the online edition, I will monitor:
• Geographical location of users.
• Number of repeat visits.
• Amount of time spent on each visit.
• Operating systems/devices used.
• Combinations of print/manuscript-images and texts selected.
• Usage of additional features such as audio and glosses.
This data will then be collated and published as the second phase of the project.
Teaching Areas:
Old English, Middle English, English language, gender theory.
Recent Publications:
‘“The Wild Fury of Turnus Now Lies Slain”: Love, War and the Medieval Other in Gavin Douglas’ Eneados’, chapter in Jessica Meyer and Heather Ellis, eds.,Masculinity and the Other: Historical Perspectives, Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars, 2009.
‘“Als for the worthynes of þe romance”: Exploitation of Genre in the Buik of King Alexander the Conqueror’, chapter in Laura Ashe, Ivana Djordjevic and Judith Weiss eds., The Exploitations of Medieval Romance, Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2010.
Review, ‘Expectations of Romance: The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England’ by Melissa Furrow. Review of English Studies. First published online June 16, 2010.
‘Virginity, sexuality, repression and return in The Tale of the Sankgreal’, article in Kate McClune and David Clark, ed., Blood, Sex, Malory, Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2011.
‘“Methink It Grete Skill”: Conciliation, Negotiation and Forgiveness in Three Fifteenth-Century Scottish Romances’, chapter in J. Derrick McClure and Janet Hadley Williams, ed., ‘Fresche fontanis’: Studies in the Culture of Medieval and Early Modern Scotland (forthcoming, Cambridge Scholars, 2012).
‘“Of materis that strange are and vnkynd”: Exploration, Conquest and Imperialism in the “Journey to Paradise” section of Gilbert Hay’s Buik of Alexander þe Conqueror’ (with Emily Wingfield), chapter in Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Margaret Bridges, Corinne Jouanno and Jean-Yves Tilliette, ed., Alexander Redivivus (forthcoming, Brepols, 2012).
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