Dr Jasmine Jones
DPhil thesis title: Old English Biblical Poetry and the Origins of Vernacular Theology
Supervisors: Professor Sarah Foot and Dr Francis Leneghan
Funding: Clarendon Scholarship and Bruce Mitchell Scholarship of Old and Middle English
Research interests: the intersection of theology, history and literature; vernacular poetry; monasticism; the Bible; patristics; the Church; early medieval devotional culture; Alfredian prose.
Publications and Online Lectures:
‘Beowulf: Cultural Encounter and the Beginning of English Literature’, for ‘Cultural Encounters: Books that Have Made a Difference’, by The Future of the Humanities Project, Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (October 2024)
‘The Action of God and the Answer of Man: The Poetic Origins of English Spirituality’, in The Christian Literary Imagination, ed. by Michael Scott and Michael J. Collins (Delaware: Vernon Press, 2024), pp. 29–38
‘The Vernacular Theology of the Old English Advent Lyrics: Monastic Devotion to Mary’, RES (2023), 1–16
‘The Might and Mind of the Measurer: Creation and the Environment in Early English Literature’, for ‘A Bent but Beautiful World: Literature, Art, and the Environment’, by The Future of the Humanities Project, Office of the Vice President for Global Engagement, Georgetown University, Washington D.C. (May 2023)
‘The Lady and the Letter: Two Ecclesiastical Analogies in the Old English Soliloquies’, SELIM (Journal of the Spanish Society for Medieval English Language and Literature), 26, (2021), 1–23
See also my blog posts on late-medieval devotional culture:
