295–315.”ĭr Joanna Bellis: “I am interested in the people who wrote the history of the Middle Ages, the chroniclers and poets narrating their own times or their recent past. Atkinson (eds.), Middle English Manuscripts and their Legacies: A Volume in Honour of Ian Doyle (Leiden: Brill, 2022), pp. 239–52 ‘Bradshaw, Durham, and Doyle’, in C. Ayers (eds.), York: Art, Architecture and Archaeology, British Archaeological Association Conference Transactions 42 (Abingdon and New York: Routledge, 2022), pp. 13–38 ‘The Material World of the York Plays’, in S. Recent publications include: (with Anthony Smith) ‘A Carol by James Ryman in the Holkham Archives’, Review of English Studies, new series, 71 (2020), 1-17 (with Ralph Hanna) ‘Describing and Cataloguing Medieval English Manuscripts: A Checklist’, in Orietta Da Rold & Elaine Treharne (eds.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval British Manuscripts(Cambridge: Cambridge U.P., 2020), pp.
Professor Richard Beadle: “Since retiring from teaching in the English Faculty I have continued to pursue my research interests in early drama and in the history of the book, adding to them a new line of enquiry into 19th-century developments in medieval English scholarship, with a focus on the work of Henry Bradshaw, and his little-known but revolutionary contributions to codicology, and to the study of Chaucer. My main research areas are romance and Arthurian literature, and I am currently working on several essays on Malory I also look forward to getting back to a long-delayed interdisciplinary project on bathing and spa culture in the Middle Ages, in literature and history.” Professor Elizabeth Archibald: “I have recently retired from Durham and am delighted to have returned to Cambridge.
More specifically, this work is structured around the intersections between Virgilian ‘ pietas’, Dantean ‘ pietà’ and Chaucerian ‘ pitee’, in turn exploring the role of the vernacular (and translation) in the formation of community. Manuscript images copyright: The Master and Fellows of Emmanuel College, Cambridgeĭr Scott Annett: “I generally work on the interconnections between Italian and English literature. I am currently working on the relationships between literature, rhetoric, and both expressions of, and responses to, emotion in the Medieval period. This site contains information about the research interests and activities of medievalists in the English Faculty, as well as information about current seminars.Ī particular welcome if you’re a visiting scholar! We hope you will get involved with our research community while you’re here, and would very much like to know about your visit, so please get in touch (email pk453cam.ac.uk) and we can add your information to the site. There are many types of facsimiles, from high-quality reproductions that include even the worm holes and sewing structures of the originals, to black-and-white copies and partial facsimiles that reproduce only the most important illustrations.Īdditional facsimiles can also be found using the library catalog's Advanced Search feature.Welcome to the webpages for the English Faculty’s research community in Medieval Studies. Because many of the subcategories overlap each manuscript has been placed in as many categories as possible to maximize search results.Įach individual entry has information about the original production date and location, the manuscript’s unique shelfmark, a brief description of the book, a qualification of the quality and completeness of the facsimile, and the language of the accompanying commentary, if there is one. This guide organizes the medieval manuscript and incunabula collection by style, theme, and geographic region.