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Dr Paul Russell

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Paul Russell

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Department of ASNC
Faculty of English, 9 West Road, Cambridge CB3 9DP
Office: S-R35 (+44-1223-767312), email: pr270@cam.ac.uk

Departmental/College Responsibilities

  • Head of Department
  • Director of Studies in ASNC for Clare (Michaelmas 2011, Lent 2012), Fitzwilliam, Pembroke, Peterhouse, and Trinity Hall.
  • Supervision of graduate students in Medieval Welsh language and literature and in Celtic philology
  • Principal Investigator, Early Irish Glossaries Project (AHRC funded), 1 July 2006 – 30 June 2009
  • Teaching in Welsh (Part 1, Paper 7, Part II, Paper 7 (including medieval Cornish and Breton), Textual Criticism (Part II, Paper 10), and Celtic Philology (Part II, Paper 12) with contributions to Palaeography and Codicology (Part I, Paper 10) and Law and Lawlessness (Part II, Paper 4)

Academic Interests (teaching and research)

Celtic philology and linguistics; early Welsh orthography; Old Welsh; Middle Welsh translation texts; medieval Welsh law; early Irish glossaries.

Selected Publications (since 2001)

  • ‘Multilinguisme en Grande-Bretagne (Antiquité tardif – Débuts du Moyen Âge)’, in Annuaire de l’École Pratique des Hautes Études, Section des Science Historiques et Philologiques, 2009–10 (Paris, 2011), pp. 297–300
  • Welsh Law in Medieval Anglesey. British Library, Harleian MS 1796 (Latin C), Texts and Studies in Medieval Welsh Law II (Cambridge, 2011). ISBN 978-0-9561089-1-3 (ISSN 1759-0809). Pp. xlviii + 88.
  • The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes (1830–1909), joint-editor with Elizabeth Boyle (Dublin, 2011: Four Courts). ISBN 978-1-84682-278-0. Pp. xiv + 252.
  • ‘Grilling in Calcutta: Whitley Stokes, Henry Bradshaw and Old Welsh in Cambridge’, in The Tripartite Life of Whitley Stokes, ed. Boyle and Russell, pp. 144–60.
  • A Bibliography of Medieval Welsh Literature for Students, 3rd edn (Cambridge, ASNC: 2011). ISBN 978-0-95623553-8-1. Pp. 80.
  • Tome: Studies in Medieval Celtic History and Law in Honour of Thomas Charles-Edwards, joint-editor with Fiona Edmonds (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2011). ISBN 978-1-84383-661-2. Pp. xvii + 238.
  • The Languages of Early Britain, guest-edited issue of the Transactions of the Philological Society, 109.2 (2011), joint-editor with S. Laker. ISSN 0079-1636. Pp. 90.
  • ‘Latin and British in Roman and Post-Roman Britain: methodology and morphology’, Transactions of the Philological Society, 109.2 (2011), pp. 138–57. 
  • Note on uocridem, in A. K. Bowman, J. D. Thomas, and R. S. O. Tomlin, ‘The Vindolanda Writing-Tablets (Tabulae Vindolandenses IV, Part 1)’, Britannia, 41 (2010), 187–224, at p. 212.
  • ‘Scribal (In)consistency in Thirteenth-Century South Wales: the Orthography of the Black Book of Carmarthen’, Studia Celtica, 43 (2009), 135-74.
  • ‘“Ye shall know them by their names”: names and identity among the Irish and the English’, in Anglo-Saxon/Irish Relations before the Vikings, ed. James Graham-Campbell and Michael Ryan. Proceedings of the British Academy, 157 (London, 2009), pp. 99-111.
  • (with Sharon Arbuthnot and Pádraic Moran) Early Irish Glossaries Database, 2nd enhanced edn. (Cambridge, ASNC: 2009).
    http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/
  • ‘Poets, Power and Possessions in Medieval Ireland: Some Stories from Sanas Cormaic’, in Law, Literature and Society, ed. J. Eska, CSANA Yearbook 7 (Dublin, 2008), pp. 9-45.
  • ‘Read it in a Glossary’: Glossaries and Learned Discourse in Medieval Ireland, Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lectures 6 (Cambridge, ASNC: 2008). ISBN 978-0-9554568-6-2. Pp. 32 [Kathleen Hughes Memorial Lecture 2007].
  • (with Alex Mullen) Celtic Personal Names of Roman Britain (Cambridge, ASNC: 2007). http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/personalnames/
  • Tair Colofn Cyfraith: The Three Columns in Welsh Law, The Welsh Legal History Society, V (2005), joint-editor with T. M. Charles–Edwards (Bangor: The Welsh Legal History Society, 2007). ISBN 0-9541637-4-5. Pp. xiv + 334
  • ‘The Arrangement and Development of the Three Columns Tractate’, in Teir Colofn Cyfraith, ed. Charles–Edwards and Russell, pp. 60-91.
  •  ‘Y Naw Affeith: Aiding and Abetting in Welsh Law’, in Teir Colofn Cyfraith, ed. Charles–Edwards and Russell, pp. 146-70.
  •  ‘The Three Columns of Law from Latin D (Oxford, Bodley, Rawlinson C 821)’, pp. 213-37.
  • ‘The names of Celtic origin’, in The Durham Liber Vitae, London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII, ed. D. and L. Rollason, 3 vols (London, 2007), II, pp. 5-8.
  • ‘Commentary: A. Personal names: A.1 Celtic names’, in The Durham Liber Vitae, London, British Library, MS Cotton Domitian A.VII, ed. D. and L. Rollason, 3 vols (London, 2007), II, pp. 35-43.
  • ‘The history of the Celtic languages of the British Isles’, in Language in the British Isles, ed. D. Britain (Cambridge, 2007), pp. 185-99.
  • Contributor to Celtic Culture. A Historical Encyclopaedia, ed. J. T. Koch, et al., 5 vols (ABC-Clio: Santa Barbara, Denver, Oxford, 2006), Cormac mac Cuillennáin (p. 487), Glossaries (pp. 821-2), Gruffudd ap Cynan (pp. 852-3), the Irish language (pp. 985-93), Llyfr Du o’r Waun (pp. 1175-6), Sanais Cormaic (p. 1559).
  • (with Pádraic Moran) Early Irish Glossaries Database (Cambridge, ASNC: 2006).              http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/irishglossaries/
  • ‘VILBIAM (RIB 154): kidnap or robbery?’, Britannia 37 (2006), 363-7.
    Vita Griffini filii Conani. The Medieval Latin Life of Gruffudd ap Cynan, ed. and transl. (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2005). ISBN 0-7083-1893-2. Pp. xiv + 222
  • ‘Quasi: bridging the etymological gap in early Irish glossaries’, in A Companion in Linguistics. A Festschrift for Anders Ahlqvist on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday, ed. B. Smelik, R. Hofman, C. Hamans, D. Cram (Nijmegen: Draak, 2005), pp. 49-62.
  • ‘“What was best of every language”: the early history of the Irish language’, in A New History of Ireland, vol. 1, ed. D. Ó Cróinín (Oxford, 2005), pp. 405-50.   
  • ‘Welsh *cynnwgl and related matters’, Studia Celtica 39 (2005), 181-8.
  • The Prologues to the Medieval Welsh Lawbooks (Cambridge, ASNC: 2004). ISBN 1-904708-03-X. Pp. x + 21.
  • A Bibliography of Medieval Welsh Literature for Students (Cambridge, ASNC: 2004). ISBN 0-9532172-99. Pp. 71.
  • Entries for the New Dictionary of National Biography (Oxford. 2004) [Cellach, Cormach mac Cuillennáin, Donatus of Fiesole].
  • ‘Old Welsh Dinacat, Cunedag, Tutagual: fossilised phonology in Brittonic personal names’, in Indo-European Perspectives  in honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies, ed. J. H. W. Penney (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), pp. 447-60.
  • Yr Hen Iaith. Studies in Early Welsh,editor (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003). ISBN 1891271105. Pp. viii + 221.
  • ‘Rowynniauc, Rhufoniog: the orthography and phonology of /m/ in Early Welsh’, in Yr Hen Iaith. Studies in Early Welsh, ed. P. Russell (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003), pp. 25-47.
  • (with A. Falileyev) ‘The dry-point glossess in Oxoniensis Posterior’, in Yr Hen Iaith. Studies in Early Welsh, ed. P. Russell (Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 2003), pp. 95-101.
  • ‘Texts in contexts: recent work on the Mabinogi’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 45 (2003), 59-72.
  • Contributor to the Encyclopaedia of Ireland (Gill & MacMillan: Dublin, 2003) [articles on Celtic languages (p. 178), Cormac mac Cuillennáin (p. 240), Goidelic in Ireland, Scotland, Wales and the Isle of Man (p. 445), Ptolemy's map of Ireland (p. 902)].
  • ‘Patterns of Hypocorism in Early Irish hagiography’, in Saints and Scholars. Studies in Irish Hagiography, ed. J. Carey, M. Herbert, P. Ó Riain (Four Courts, Dublin, 2001), pp. 237-49.