Recent PhD Graduates
Name & Contact Details |
Topic | Supervisor & Date of award |
|---|---|---|
Kelly Randell |
Kings Over the Water: Narrative Structure in Some Middle Welsh Prose Tales. | Dr Paul Russell; degree awarded 2012 |
Brittany Schorn |
How can his word be trusted? Speaker and authority in Old Norse wisdom poetry | Dr Judy Quinn; degree awarded 2011 |
Peter Evan |
The Necrology of Ælfwine's Prayerbook and Late Anglo-Saxon Monastic Culture | Prof. Simon Keynes; degree awarded 2011 |
Nicholas Sparks |
Textual Histories of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Alfredian Common Stock | Prof. Simon Keynes; degree awarded 2011 |
Levi Roach (JRF, St John’s College) |
Meetings of the Witan, 871-978 | Prof. Simon Keynes; degree awarded 2011 |
| Matthias Ammon | Pledges and agreements in Old English |
Dr Richard Dance; degree awarded 2011 |
| Robert Crampton | 'Fingal Cloinne Tanntail' and its literary contexts | Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; degree awarded 2011 |
| Conan Doyle | A Semantic Approach to Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Disease | Dr Debby Banham; degree awarded 2011 |
| Paul Gazzoli | England and Scandinavia in the later 11th Century | Dr Fiona Edmonds; degree awarded 2011 | Anna-Maria Machado-Matheson |
Madness in Early Irish law and literature | Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; degree awarded 2011 |
Deborah Hayden (JRF, Christ Church, Oxford) |
Dr Paul Russell; awarded 2010 | |
Eleanor Barraclough (Leverhulme Post-doctoral Fellow, Queen’s College, Oxford) |
Cultural Memory and the Semiotics of Space in the Íslendingasogur | Dr Judy Quinn; degree awarded 2010 |
Denis Casey (Department of ASNC) |
Medieval Irish Kingship |
Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; degree awarded 2009 |
Rosa Maria Fera (Teaching Associate, Gonville and Caius College) |
Visual perception in Old English literature | Dr Richard Dance; degree awarded 2009 |
Helen Imhoff (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies) |
Representation of pagans in Irish literature | Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; degree awarded 2009 | Rory Naismith (JRF, Clare College) | History and Coinage in Southumbrian England, c. 750-865 | Prof. Simon Keynes and Dr Mark Blackburn; degree awarded 2009 | Carys Underdown |
Studies in the Welsh Preposition: AFTER | Dr Paul Russell; degree awardrd 2009 | Elizabeth Boyle (Corpus Christi College, Department of ASNC) |
Medieval Irish eschatology: sources and scholarship |
Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; degree awarded 2008 |
| Helen Foxhall Forbes (School of History, University of Leicester) | The development of the notions of penance, purgatory and the afterlife in Anglo-Saxon England |
Dr Rosalind Love; degree awarded 2008 |
Jean Rumball |
Anglo-Saxon Exiles and Outlaws | Dr Richard Dance: degree awardrd 2008 | Fiona Salisbury (Rhys Student, |
Dialogue in Middle Welsh Narrative Prose | Dr Paul Russell; degree awarded 2008 |
| Benjamin Snook | The Literary Dimensions of Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas from Edward "the Elder" to Aethelred "the Unready" |
Dr Rosalind Love; degree awarded 2009 | David Woodman (Research Fellow, Robinson College) |
The Charters of the Northern Religious Houses | Prof. Simon Keynes: degree awarded 2008 | Emily Lethbridge (Rannis-funded project, Reykjavík) |
Narrative in the three versions of Gísla saga Surssonar | Dr Judy Quinn;: degree awarded 2007 |
Alderik Blom (University of Oxford) |
Lingua Gallica: Studies in the Languages of Late Antique Gaul | Dr Paul Russell; degree awarded 2006 |
Flora Spiegel |
Creation Theology in Anglo-Saxon Literature | Dr Rosalind Love; degree awarded 2006 |
Geraldine Parsons (Department of Celtic, University of Glasgow) |
Contextualising Acallam na Senórach | Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh: degree awarded 2006 | Timothy Bolton | The Imperial Rule of Cnut the Great: a Re-examination of the Nature of his Hegemony in England and Scandinavia |
Prof. Simon Keynes; degree awarded 2005 | Malasree Home (UK Centre for Materials Education, Higher |
The Peterborough Chronicle and the writing of history in the Twelfth Century | Dr Richard Dance; degree awarded 2005 | Catherine Rooney |
The Manuscripts of the Works of Gerald of Wales | Prof. David Dumville; degree awarded 2005 | Bridgitte Schaffer (Napa Valley |
Royalty and the Church in Britain and Ireland to A.D. 1050 | Prof. David Dumville; degree awarded 2005 | Kaele Stokes |
Welsh kingship and governance in a European context 383-1063 | Prof. David Dumville; degree awarded 2005 |
Peter Stokes (Department of Digital Humanities, King’s College London) |
Vernacular Script and Book-Production in Eleventh-Century England | Prof. David Dumville; degree awarded 2005 |
Lisa Collinson (Centre for Medieval Studies, University of Aberdeen) |
Entertainment in Kings' Sagas | Dr Judy Quinn; degree awarded 2004 | Paula de Fougerolles | Breton History: The Archbishopric of Dol, A.D. 849-1199 | Prof. U.-R. Blumenthal (Catholic University of America); degree awarded 2004 | Sara Pons-Sanz (Department of English, Linguistics and Cultural Studies, University of Westminster) | Law and literature: Old Norse vocabulary in the works of Wulfstan, Archbishop of York (1002-23) and shop of Worcester (1002-16), with particular focus on the legal terms |
Dr Richard Dance; degree awarded 2004 | Elinor Teele |
The Heroic Tradition in the Old English Riddles | Dr Richard Dance; degree awarded 2004 | Chris Abram (Department of Scandinavian Studies, University College London) |
English Influence in the Literature of the Medieval Church in Scandinavia | Dr Rosalind Love; degree awarded 2003 |
| Patricia Boulhosa (Department of ASNC) | Icelanders and the Early Kings of Norway: The Evidence of Legal and Literary Texts |
Dr Judy Quinn; degree awarded 2003 |
Claudia Di Sciacca (Linguistics, Philology and Letters, University of Udine) |
The 'Synonyma' by Isidore of Seville as a source in Anglo-Saxon England |
Dr Rosalind Love; degree awarded 2003 | Clare Downham (School of Language and Literature (Celtic) University of Aberdeen) |
The Viking-Age Towns of Ireland | Prof. David Dumville; degree awarded 2003 | K Megan McGowan | A political geography of Ireland in the Early Middle Ages | Prof. David Dumville; degree awarded 2003 |
Rebecca Rushforth |
The eleventh- and early twelfth-century manuscripts of Bury St Edmunds abbey | Prof. David Dumville; degree awarded 2003 |
Emily Thornbury (Department of English, University of California, Berkeley) |
Visual imagery in Old English poetry | Dr Rosalind Love; degree awarded 2003 |
Fiona Winward |
Colour terms in early Welsh Literature | Dr Oliver Padel; degree awarded 2003 |
Sheila Boll (The AHRB Centre of Irish and Scottish Studies, University of Aberdeen) |
Foster-Kin in Conflict: Fosterage as a Character Motivation in Medieval Irish Literature | Dr Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; degree awarded 2002 | Hérold Pettiau (University of Luxemburg) |
Aspects of Episcopacy in Seventh-Century Western Europe | Professor David Dumville; degree awarded 2002 |
| Alison Powell | Verbal Parallels in Andreas and its Relationship to eowulf and Cynewulf | Dr Andy Orchard and Dr Rosalind Love; degree awarded 2002 |
Manish Sharma (Department of English, Concordia University) |
Crossing Boundaries: the theme of transgression in Old English poetry | Dr Rosalind Love; degree awarded 2002 | Marteinn Sigurðsson (Department of Nordic Philology, University of Copenhagen) |
The Myth of Tyr and Fenrir | Dr Judy Quinn; degree awarded 2002 |
Clare Lynch |
Enigmatic Diction in Old English Biblical Poetry | Dr Andy Orchard; degree awarded 2001 |
Janie Steen |
An Analysis of Classical Rhetoric in Old English Poetry | Dr Andy Orchard; degree awarded 2001 |
Aaron Kleist (Department of English, Biola University, California, USA) |
The Development of Aelfric's Doctrine of Free Will in the 'Sermones Catholici' | Dr Andy Orchard; degree awarded 2000 |
Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (Department of Irish, National University of Ireland, Cork) |
The 'Libera...sicut liberasti' in Insular Tradition | Prof. Michael Lapidge; degree awarded 2000 | Oliver Traxel (English Philology, University of Göttingen) | Language, Writing and Textual Interference in Post- Conquest Old English Manuscripts: the Scribal Evidence of Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1. 33 | Dr Andy Orchard; degree awarded 2000 |