Medieval

Faculty members researching in this area:

Permanent Postholders: Dr Laura Ashe, Dr Helen Barr, Dr Mishtooni Bose, Professor Charlotte Brewer, Dr Kantik Ghosh, Professor Vincent Gillespie, Professor Malcolm Godden, Dr Mark Griffith, Dr Sian Gronlie, Mr Terry Hoad, Professor Simon Horobin, Dr Carolyne Larrington, Dr Sally Mapstone, Dr Helen Moore, Professor Lynda Mugglestone, Dr Heather O'Donoghue, Dr Nicholas Perkins, Ms Lucinda Rumsey, Dr Helen Spencer, Dr Annie Sutherland, Dr Marion Turner, and Professor Daniel Wakelin.

Research and college staff: Dr Mark Atherton, Dr Eleanor Barraclough, Dr Santha Bhattacharji, Dr Helen Brookman, Dr Aisling Byrne, Dr Anna Caughey, Dr Alexandra da Costa, Dr Jeremy Dimmick, Dr Samuel Fanous, Dr Madeleine Forey, Dr Erin Goeres, Professor Anne Hudson, Dr Rohini Jayatilaka, Dr Stuart Lee, Dr Francis Leneghan, Dr Kate McClune, Ms Aditi Nafde, Dr Jennifer Nuttall, Mr Bernard O'Donoghue, Dr Olivia Robinson, Dr Elizabeth Solopova, Dr Daniel Thomas, Dr Laura Varnam, and Dr Mark Williams.

Our research:

Key research areas include Old English prose and verse, Old Norse literature, Chaucer, Langland, Middle English mystics, Middle Scots writing, manuscript study and the history of the medieval book, literature and politics, historical and religious writing of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Malory and late medieval romance, late medieval intellectual history. Editorial practice and book-history are particular strengths, reflecting the manuscript and book resources available in Oxford.

Recent publications:

Fiction and History in England, 1066-1200 (Ashe), Vernacular Philosophy and the Making of Orthodoxy in the Fifteenth Century (Bose), Íslendingabók, Kristni saga: The Book of the Icelanders, The Story of the Conversion (Gronlie), London Literature, 1300-1380 (Hanna), King Arthur's Enchantresses: Morgan and Her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition (Larrington), Chaucerian Conflict: Languages of Antagonism in Later Fourteenth-Century London (Turner).

Other information:

Details of the wealth of medieval research and teaching in Oxford across many disciplines are available at the Medieval Studies at Oxford site.

Projects directed or co-directed by Oxford medievalists include Boethius in Early Medieval Europe (Godden), The Identification of the Scribes Responsible for Copying Major Works of Middle English Literature (Horobin), The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts (Hanna), After Arundel (Gillespie et al., conference).