Past PhD Graduates
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Name & Contact Details |
Topic | Supervisor & Year of award |
|---|---|---|
| Davide Salmoiraghi (Research Fellow, Ca' Foscari, University of Venice) | Literary activity and ecclesiastical authority in Medieval Iceland: the Old Norse reception of St Ambrose of Milan and his exemplary role in Bishops' sagas | Prof Elizabeth Rowe, 2024 |
| Paddy McAlary | An ecclesiastical institution in medieval Munster: a study of Emly to c. 1100 | Dr Alison Bonner, 2024 |
| Roan Runge | 'Transfiguration’s Coming’: an investigation of the depiction of interspecies transformation in medieval Irish literature | Prof Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, 2024 |
| Adele Kreager | Boundaries of the human: identities, ontologies and transformations in Old Norse literature | Prof Judy Quinn, 2024 |
| Brigid Ehrmantraut (Junior Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge) | Interpretatio Hiberniana: classical influences in Medieval Irish depictions of otherworldly characters | Prof Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, 2023 |
| Dara Hellman | Gereint and its Welsh contexts | Prof Paul Russell, 2023 |
| Claudia Hoßbach | Þá varð hlátr mikill: on the role of laughter in Old Norse saga literature | Prof Rosalind Love, 2023 |
| Brittany Hanlon | 'Hwonnw We Ðonne Ne Gemotad?'; Narrative strategies in tenth–and eleventh–century English Property Disputes | Prof Rory Naismith, 2023 |
| Alisa Valpola-Walker | The legendary saga as a medium of cultural memory: a study of AM 589a–f 4to and AM 586 4to | Prof Judy Quinn, 2023 |
| Ross Smythe | Performance, Ritual and Messaging in Encomium Emmae reginae | Prof Simon Keynes and Prof Rory Naismith, 2022 |
| Lee Colwill | Gender and Genre in Medieval Chivalric Rímur | Prof Judy Quinn, 2022 |
| Eric Ania Haley-Halinski (Community Library Assistant, Cambridge) | Birds and Humans in the Old Norse World, c. 600-1500 AD | Prof Judy Quinn, 2022 |
| Francesco Colombo | The Young Sigurðr Section of the Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda (GKS 2365 4to): Compositional History and Interpretative Reading | Prof Judy Quinn, 2022 |
| Calum Platts | Competing influences: Francia, Rome and the English in the seventh century | Dr Rory Naismith, 2021 |
| Anouk Nuijten | Critical editions of Aided Ailella ⁊ Conaill Chernaig and Aided Cheit Maic Mágach with translations, textual notes and commentary | Prof Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, 2021 |
| Alex Sigston | 'Second-stage' Iowerth: textual change and development in medieval Welsh legal texts | Prof Paul Russell, 2021 |
| Sven Rossel | A survey of the Latin manuscript fragments in Danish collections with special consideration given the gospel books of the Archdiocese of Lund | Dr Elizabeth Rowe, 2021 |
| Alice Taylor-Griffiths | Studies in Medieval Irish Legal Ancillary Material | Prof Paul Russell, 2020 |
| David McCay (Research Associate, ASNC) | The 'Dindshenchas' in the Book of Leinster | Prof Máire Ní Mhaonaigh, 2020 |
| Albert Fenton | The Function of Writs in England before the Norman Conquest | Prof Simon Keynes, 2020 |
| James McIntosh | The Appeal and Reception of the Legend of Saint Eustace in Early Medieval England and Medieval Scandinavia | Prof Rosalind Love, 2020 |
| Brynja Þorgeirsdóttir (Lektor, Háskóli Íslands) | Emotions in Njals Saga and Egils Saga: Approaches and Literary Analysis | Dr Judy Quinn, 2020 |
| Thomas Grant | Craftsmen and Wordsmiths: An Investigation into the Links Between Material Crafting, Poetic Composition and Their Practitioners in Old Norse Literature | Dr Judy Quinn, 2020 |
| Emma Knowles (Associate Lecturer in English, University of Sydney) | 'And eall worulde gesceaft': Re-reading the Natural World in Old English Biblical Poetry | Dr Richard Dance, 2019 |
| Benjamin Allport (Visiting Fellow, University of Bergen) | The Regional Communities of Viking Age Norway and Their Contribution to Socio-Political Dynamics, c.900-1050 | Dr Elizabeth Rowe, 2019 |
| Tom Lynch (Reading Room Supervisor, British Library) | Making Miracles in Central Medieval England | Dr Rosalind Love; 2019 |
| Katherine Olley (Assistant Professor in Viking Studies, University of Nottingham) | Kinship and Narrative in Old Norse Literature: Parent-Child Relations in Mythic-Heroic Texts | Dr Judy Quinn; 2019 |
| Rebecca Shercliff (Junior Research Fellow, St John's College, Cambridge) | A Critical Edition of 'Tochmarc Ferbe' with Translation, Textual Notes and Literary Commentary | Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 2019 |
| Rebecca Thomas (British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Bangor) | Perceptions of Peoples in Early Medieval Wales | Dr Alison Bonner; 2019 |
| Conan Doyle (Assistant Professor of Medieval English, Charles University, Prague) | Anglo-Saxon Medicine and Disease: A Semantic Approach | Dr Debby Banham; 2018 |
| William Norman | The Classical Barbarian in the 'Íslendingasögur' | Dr Elizabeth Rowe, 2018 |
| Jonathan Hui (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Hong Kong) | The Matter of Gautland | Dr Judy Quinn; 2018 |
| Harriet Soper (Simon and June Li Fellow & Tutor in English Literature, Lincoln College, Oxford) | A Count of Days: The Life Course in Old English Poetry | Dr Richard Dance; 2018 |
| Caitlin Ellis (Associate Professor of Nordic History, University of Oslo) | The Identity and International Relations of Orkney and Dublin in the Long Eleventh Century | Dr Elizabeth Rowe; 2018 |
| David Callander (Lecturer, School of Welsh, Cardiff University) | Dissonant Neighbours: Progression and Radiality in Welsh and English Poetic Narrative to c. 1250 | Prof. Paul Russell and Dr Richard Dance; 2017 |
| Rebecca Merkelbach (Assistant Professor of Scandinavian Studies, University of Tübingen) | Dólgr í byggðinni: The Literary Construction and Cultural Use of Social Monstrosity in the Sagas of Icelanders | Dr Judy Quinn; 2017 |
| Myriah Williams (Lecturer in Celtic Studies, University of California, Berkeley) | Studies in the Black Book of Carmarthen | Prof. Paul Russell; 2016 |
| Sarah Waidler (Lecturer, NYU) | The Hagiographer and His World: The Writing of Saints' Lives in Ireland during the Central Middle Ages | Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 2016 |
| Benjamin Guy (Assistant Professor in Celtic, ASNC) | Medieval Welsh Genealogy: Texts, Contexts and Transmission | Prof. Paul Russell; 2016 |
| Julia Bolotina | Medicine and Society in Anglo-Saxon England: The Social and Practical Context of 'Bald's Leechbook' and the 'Lacnunga' | Dr Debby Banham; 2016 |
| Joanne Shortt Butler | Narrative structure and the individual in the Íslendingasögur: motivation, provocation and characterisation | Dr Judy Quinn; 2016 |
| Maria Teresa Ramandi | Inside the translator's workshop: The Old Icelandic Translation of the Latin Legend of St Agnes | Dr Elizabeth Rowe; 2016 |
| Sara Lackner | Changing Texts, Changing Textual Communities: Manuscript Context and Meaning in Some Tales from the Yellow Book of Lecan | Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 2016 |
Robert Gallagher (Lecturer, School of History, University of Kent) |
Latin Literary Culture in the Age of Alfred the Great and Edward the Elder | Dr Rosalind Love; 2015 | James Lloyd |
Reeves as Agents of Royal Government in the English Shires, from the Reign of Alfred to Domesday Book | Prof. Simon Keynes; 2015 |
| Silva Nurmio (Postdoctoral Researcher, Finnish Academy of Sciences, University of Helsinki) | Studies in Grammatical Number in Old and Middle Welsh | Prof. Paul Russell; 2015 |
Christine Voth (Lecturer, Quinnipiac University) |
An Analysis of the Anglo-Saxon Manuscript, London, British Library, Royal 12.D xvii | Dr Debby Banham; 2015 |
Desirée Goverts |
A Linguistic and Stylistic Analysis of the Bóroma | Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 2014 |
| Helen Oxenham | Perceptions of femininity in early Irish Society |
Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 2014 |
Veronica Phillips (Reader Support Assistant, Cambridge University Medical Library) |
Authority and Dispossession in Medieval Irish Literature | Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 2014 |
Naomi Bennett (NZ Treasury Research Department) |
The Christology of the Anglo-Saxon Homilies | Dr Rosalind Love; 2013 |
| George Younge (Lecturer in Medieval Literature, University of York) | British Library Cotton Vespasian D. xiv: an Old English Manuscript in its Anglo-Norman Context | Dr Richard Dance; 2013 |
Natalia Petrovskaia (Lecturer, Department of Languages, Utrecht University) |
Medieval Welsh Perceptions of the Orient | Prof. Paul Russell; 2013 |
Emily Osborne (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of British Columbia) |
Thinking Outside the Hall: The conceptual boundaries of Skaldic verse | Dr Judy Quinn; 2013 |
Philip Dunshea |
The Brittonic kingdoms of the Old North | Dr Fiona Edmonds; 2012 |
Jeffrey Love (Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Stockholm) |
Reception of Hervarar saga ok Heiðreks from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century | Dr Judy Quinn; 2012 |
Megan Cavell (Lecturer/Fellow, Department of English Literature, University of Birmingham) |
Representations of Weaving and Binding in Old English Poetry | Dr Richard Dance; 2012 |
Kelly Randell |
Kings Over the Water: Narrative Structure in Some Middle Welsh Prose Tales. | Prof. Paul Russell; 2012 |
Brittany Schorn (Lecturer in Old Norse, Oxford) |
How can his word be trusted? Speaker and authority in Old Norse wisdom poetry | Dr Judy Quinn; 2011 |
Nicholas Sparks (Resident Tutor in History at St. John's College, University of Sydney & Honorary Associate to the Medieval and Early Modern Centre, University of Sydney) |
Textual Histories of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: The Alfredian Common Stock | Prof. Simon Keynes; 2011 |
Levi Roach (Senior Lecturer, University of Exeter) |
Meetings of the Witan, 871-978 | Prof. Simon Keynes; 2011 |
| Matthias Ammon (Head Librarian, German Historical Institute, London) | Pledges and agreements in Old English |
Dr Richard Dance; 2011 |
| Laura Gazzoli (EU Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow, Institute for Medieval Studies, Austrian Academy of Sciences (2018-), previously British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow 2012-2015, ASNC) | Anglo-Danish Relations in the Later Eleventh Century | Dr Fiona Edmonds; 2011 | Anna-Maria Machado Matheson |
Madness as Penance in Medieval Gaelic Sources: A Study of Biblical and Hagiographical Influences on the Depiction of Suibne, Lailoken, and Mór of Munster | Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 2011 |
Helen Imhoff (Dublin Institute of Advanced Studies) |
Representation of pagans in Irish literature | Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 2009 | Rory Naismith (Professor of Early Medieval English History, ASNC, Cambridge) | History and Coinage in Southumbrian England, c. 750-865 | Prof. Simon Keynes and Dr Mark Blackburn; 2009 | Elizabeth Boyle (Lecturer, NUI Maynooth) |
Medieval Irish eschatology: sources and scholarship |
Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh; 2008 |
| Benjamin Snook (Head of History, Goldophin & Latymer School) | The Literary Dimensions of Anglo-Saxon Royal Diplomas from Edward "the Elder" to Aethelred "the Unready" |
Dr Rosalind Love; 2009 | David Woodman (Senior Tutor, Robinson College, Cambridge) |
The Charters of the Northern Religious Houses | Prof. Simon Keynes: 2008 | Emily Lethbridge (Research Lecturer, Department of Name Studies, Árni Magnússon Institute for Icelandic Studies, Reykjavík ) |
Narrative in the three versions of Gísla saga Surssonar | Dr Judy Quinn;: 2007 |
Eric Denton (Solicitor, Allen & Overy) |
Tenth-Century Anglo-Latin Hagiography: Ramsey and the Old Minster, Winchester | Dr Rosalind Love; 2006 |
Alderik Blom (Professor, Philipps-Universität Marburg) |
Lingua Gallica: Studies in the Languages of Late Antique Gaul | Prof. Paul Russell; 2006 |
Geraldine Parsons (Lecturer, Celtic and Gaelic, University of Glasgow) |
A Reading of Acallam na Senórach as a Literary Text | Prof. Máire Ní Mhaonaigh: 2006 |
Peter Stokes (Directeur d’études, École Pratique des Hautes Études, Université PSL, Sorbonne, Paris) |
Vernacular Script and Book-Production in Eleventh-Century England | Prof. David Dumville; 2005 |
Lisa Collinson (Museums and Special Collections, University of Aberdeen) |
Entertainment in Kings' Sagas | Dr Judy Quinn; 2004 | Paula de Fougerolles | Breton History: The Archbishopric of Dol, A.D. 849-1199 | Prof. U.-R. Blumenthal (Catholic University of America); 2004 | Sara Pons-Sanz (Senior Lecturer, Cardiff University) | 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; 2004 |
| Patricia Boulhosa | Icelanders and the Early Kings of Norway: The Evidence of Legal and Literary Texts |
Dr Judy Quinn; 2003 |
Claudia Di Sciacca (Associate Professor of Germanic Philology, University of Udine, Italy) |
The 'Synonyma' by Isidore of Seville as a source in Anglo-Saxon England |
Dr Rosalind Love; 2003 |
Emily Thornbury (Associate Professor, Yale University) |
Anglo-Saxon Poetics | Dr Rosalind Love; 2003 | Hérold Pettiau (University of Luxemburg) |
Aspects of Episcopacy in Seventh-Century Western Europe | Prof. David Dumville; 2002 |
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; 2000 |
Caitríona Ó Dochartaigh (Department of Early and Medieval Irish, University College Cork) |
The 'Libera...sicut liberasti' in Insular Tradition | Prof. Michael Lapidge; 2000 | Oliver M Traxel (Professor of English Language and Linguistics, University of Stavanger) | Language, Writing and Textual Interference in Post- Conquest Old English Manuscripts: the Scribal Evidence of Cambridge, University Library, Ii. 1. 33 | Dr Andy Orchard; 2000 |
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