Thomas Alan Shippey is a British scholar and retired professor of Middle and Old English literature, as well as medievalism and modern fantasy and science fiction. In particular he is widely considered one of the world's leading academic scholars on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien about whom he has written several books and many scholarly papers.
Medieval studies is the academic interdisciplinary study of the Middle Ages.
Medieval films imagine and portray the Middle Ages through the visual, audio and thematic forms of cinema.
Medievalism is a system of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages of Europe, or by devotion to elements of that period, which have been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture. Since the 18th century, a variety of movements have used the medieval period as a model or inspiration for creative activity, including Romanticism, the Gothic revival, the pre-Raphaelite and arts and crafts movements, and neo-medievalism.
Robert Bartlett, CBE, FBA, FRSE is an English historian and medievalist. He is Bishop Wardlaw Professor of Mediaeval History Emeritus at the University of St Andrews.
Brian Oliver Murdoch is a British philologist who is Emeritus Professor of German at the University of Stirling. He specializes in the study of early Germanic and Celtic literature, on which he has authored and edited several influential works.
The Ebstorf Map is an example of a mappa mundi similar to the Hereford Map in England. It was made by Gervase of Ebstorf, who was possibly the same man as Gervase of Tilbury, some time in the thirteenth century.
The Heroic Age: A Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe is a peer-reviewed academic journal founded in 1998, with first issue having been published during spring/summer 1999. The founder and the first editor-in-chief of the journal was Michelle Ziegler.
Leslie J. Workman was an independent scholar and founder of academic medievalism.
Karla Pollmann is the Dean of Arts at the University of Bristol, where she works in both the department of Classics and Ancient History and the department of Religion and Theology. Her research covers Classical to Late Antiquity, patristics, the history of exegesis and hermeneutics, and the thought of Augustine of Hippo and its reception.
Stephen O. Glosecki was a scholar of Old English language and literature. Glosecki was raised in Springfield, Illinois, and educated at Sacred Heart-Griffin High School. He received his undergraduate degree from Beloit College, and his Master's and Ph.D. degrees from University of California, Davis. A professor of Old English at University of Alabama at Birmingham, he was the author of books and articles on Old English literature, particularly on shamanism and folklore, and was notable for his contributions to the anthropological study of early Germanic literature. He died of cancer in 2007, aged 55. A collection he edited, Myth in Early Northwest Europe, was published posthumously; his introduction was called "lively and, in places, poetic", and his translations of some of the Anglo-Saxon metrical charms were praised as "fluent, vigorous".
Carolyn Dinshaw is an American academic and author, who has specialised in issues of gender and sexuality in the medieval context.
Exemplaria is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering the Middle Ages and the Early modern period. It was established in 1989 and is published by Taylor & Francis. The editors-in-chief are Anke Bernau, Noah Guynn, Patricia Clare Ingham, and Elizabeth Scala. The book review editor is Robert Mills.
John M. Ganim is an American author. Style and Consciousness in Middle English Narrative (1983) and Chaucerian Theatricality (1990) were both published by Princeton University Press, while his third, Medievalism and Orientalism: Three Essays on Literature, Architecture and Cultural Identity (2005) was translated into Arabic in 2012 as الاستشراق والقرون الوسطى by the Kalima Foundation. His most recent book, Cosmopolitanism and the Middle Ages, co-edited with Shayne Legassie, was published in 2013.
Frances Elizabeth Andrews is a British historian who serves as professor of medieval history at the University of St Andrews. She is a specialist in the medieval church and its networks.
Kristin Mimi Lieve Leen De Troyer is professor of Old Testament at the University of Salzburg and was president of the European Society of Women in Theological Research. She holds the title of honorary professor of Hebrew Bible at the University of St. Andrews School of Divinity. Before her current appointment, she has worked from 1998 to 2008 as professor of Hebrew Bible at the Claremont School of Theology in Claremont, California. After that, she was Professor of Hebrew Bible / Old Testament at the University of St Andrews, Scotland, UK, where she also served as Dean of Arts and Divinity from 2013 to 2015.
Kathryn Margaret Rudy is a manuscript historian at the University of St Andrews, Scotland. She is best known for her forensic approach to medieval books, and has pioneered the use of the densitometer to measure the grime that original readers deposited in their books. Her research focuses on the medieval reception of manuscripts, how they were manipulated and handled, and how book-making skills were lost with the advent of the printing industry.
Rebecca Jane Sweetman is Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology at the University of St Andrews. Sweetman is known in particular for her work on the archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Greece.
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland.
Lisa C. M. Weston is a scholar of medieval literature and Old English language. She teaches at Fresno State Department of English, and served as interim Chair of the department in 2019.
