Associated Research Staff:
Dr Mercedes Salvador-Bello, Universidad de Sevilla
Honorary Research Associate in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, Cambridge
[Michaelmas Term 2009]
Research Interests
- Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Latin literature with a particular focus on the Exeter Book, the Old English Riddles and Latin enigmata.
- The history of the medieval romance and the study of English translations of Spanish romances.
Other Activities
- Elected member of the Advisory Board of ISAS (International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 2012-15).
- Director of “From the Manuscript to the Printing Press: a Study of the Evolution of Riddles and Romances in England from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance,” research project financed by the Andalusian Government for the period 2010-14.
- Participation in “The Spanish Romances of Chivalry in English Translation: The Cases of Palmerin d’Oliva (1588) and Palmendos (1589)”, R&D project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the period 2011-13.
- Participation in “The Printed History of the Middle English Verse Romances”, R&D project financed by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation for the period 2008-11.
Recent Publications
- Isidorean Perceptions of Order: The Compilation of the Exeter Book Riddles and Medieval Latin Enigmata (forthcoming, West Virginia University Press).
- “The Sexual Riddle in Aldhelm’s Enigmata, the Exeter Book, and Anglo-Latin Tradition”, Philological Quarterly (forthcoming, 2012).
- “The Old English Apollonius of Tyre in the Light of Early Romance Tradition: An Assessment of its Plot and Characterization in Relation to Marie de France’s Eliduc”, English Studies (forthcoming, 2012).
- “Patterns of Compilation in Latin Enigmata and the Evidence of a Source-Collection in Riddles 1-40 of The Exeter Book”, Viator 43.1 (2012), 339-374.
- “The Edgar Panegyrics in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle”, Edgar, King of the English 959-975: New Interpretations, ed. Donald Scragg (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008), 252-272.
- “Old English Studies in Spain: Past, Present and . . . Future?” (with Juan Camilo Conde-Silvestre), Old English Newsletter 40.1 (2007), 36-57.
- Architectural Metaphors and Christological Imagery in the Advent Lyrics: Benedictine Propaganda in the Exeter Book?” Conversion and Colonization in Anglo-Saxon England, eds. Catherine E. Karkov and Nicholas Howe (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2006), 169-211.
- Entries for Christ I, Christ II, Christ III, Latin Riddles (enigmata) and Exeter Book Riddles in The literary Encyclopedia (<http://www.litencyc.com/>), ed. Robert Clark et al. (2004-06).
- “The Oyster and the Crab: A Riddle Duo (Nos. 77 and 78) in the Exeter Book”, Modern Philology 101.3 (2004), 400-19.
