Research Staff:
Dr Elizabeth Boyle
Leverhulme Early Career Research Fellow in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
Research Fellow, St Edmund’s College
Contact
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic
9 West Road
Cambridge
CB3 9DP
+44 (0)1223 767314
Email: elw37@cam.ac.uk
Research Interests
- Intellectual and cultural history
- Medieval theology and philosophy
- History of scholarship, particularly the development of Celtic Studies
Other Activities
- Marie Curie Fellow, 2012 - 2014 (Gerda Henkel Stiftung/M4HUMAN programme), Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork
- Director of Studies in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic for St Edmund's College and Corpus Christi College
- Affiliated Lecturer, Faculty of History, University of Cambridge
- Academic Co-ordinator, Sutton Trust Summer School in Anglo-Saxon, Norse & Celtic
Recent Publications
- 'The Authorship and Transmission of De tribus habitaculis animae', Journal of Medieval Latin 22 (2012) - in press
- trans., 'De tribus habitaculis animae: Concerning the Three Dwelling-Places of the Soul', in The End and Beyond: Medieval Irish Eschatology, ed. J. Carey & E. Nic Cárthaigh (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications) - in press
- 'The Twelfth-Century English Transmission of a Poem on the Threefold Division of the Mind, attributed to Patrick of Dublin (d. 1084)', in 'A fantastic and abstruse Latinity'? Hiberno-Continental Cultural and Literary Interactions in the Middle Ages, Studien und Texte zur Keltologie, ed. Wolfram R. Keller & Dagmar Schlueter (Muenster: Nodus Publikationen) - in press
- ‘Sacrifice and Salvation in Echtgus Úa Cúanáin’s Poetic Treatise on the Eucharist’, in Envisioning Christ on the Cross in the Early Medieval West, ca. 500-1200, ed. J. Mullins, J. Ní Ghrádaigh, & R. Hawtree (Turnhout: Brepols) – in press
- ed., with Paul Russell, The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830-1909) (Dublin: Four Courts, 2011); ISBN: 978-1-84682-278-0
- with Paul Russell, 'Introduction', in The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes, ed. Boyle & Russell, pp. 1-13
- ‘The Impiety of the Intellect: Whitley Stokes and the Pre-Raphaelites’, in The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes, ed. Boyle & Russell, pp. 44-58
- ‘Visionary Texts’, in Handbook of Medieval Studies: Terms - Methods - Trends, ed. A. Classen, 3 vols (Berlin & New York: De Gruyter, 2010), III, 2131-5
- ‘Eschatological Justice in Scéla laí brátha’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 59 (Summer 2010), 39-54
- ‘Margaret Stokes (1832-1900) and the Study of Medieval Irish Art in the Nineteenth Century’, in Visual, Material and Print Culture in Nineteenth-Century Ireland, ed. C. Breathnach & C. Lawless (Dublin: Four Courts, 2010), pp. 73-84
- ‘Neoplatonic Thought in Medieval Ireland: the Evidence of Scéla na esérgi’, Medium Ævum 78:2 (2009), 216-30
- with N. J. Morgan, et al., Parker Library on the Web (Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2009): http://parkerweb.stanford.edu
- ‘Whitley Stokes’s immram: Evolution, Ireland and Empire’, in Ireland: Revolution and Evolution, ed. J. Strachan & A. O’Malley-Younger (Oxford: Peter Lang, 2009), pp. 101-15
- with H. Foxhall Forbes, et al., ‘Anglo-Saxon and Related Entries in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004)’, Anglo-Saxon England 37 (2008), 183-232
- ‘A Welsh Record of an Anglo-Saxon Political Mutilation’, Anglo-Saxon England 35 (2006), 245-9
- ed., with P. Chetwynd, Quaestio Insularis 6 (2005)
- ‘Stranger in a Strange Land: an Irish Monk in Germany and a Vision of the Afterlife’, Quaestio Insularis 6 (2005), 120-34
- Reviews in Medieval Archaeology, Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Archaeologia Cambrensis, The Innes Review, Mediaevistik, Irish Theological Quarterly, History Scotland, Irish Historical Studies, Studia Celtica
In Preparation
- The Body and the Blood: Eucharistic Doctrine in Medieval Ireland, Medium Ævum Monographs Series (Oxford: Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature) - monograph in preparation
- ed. with Deborah Hayden & Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, Authorities and Adaptations: the Reworking and Transmission of Sources in Irish Textual Culture, c. 1000 - c. 1200 - edited volume in preparation
- A study of eschatological thought in eleventh-century Ireland
