Bettina M. Bildhauer is Professor of German at the University of St Andrews. She is an expert on medieval German literature in its cultural and multilingual context,and on modern perceptions of the Middle Ages.
Bildhauer received her PhD from the Department of German,University of Cambridge,in 2002. Her doctoral thesis was on Blood in Thirteenth-Century German Literature. [1]
Bildhauer has published on medieval themes,particularly blood,monstrosity,and the reception of the Middle Ages in the modern world. [2] [ failed verification ] Her monograph,Medieval Blood,explored blood as an indication of the bounded limit of the human body,examining medieval,religious and literary ideas about blood. Kerstin Pfeiffer,writing in Literature and Theology ,described Medieval Blood as "detailed,insightful,and theoretically informed' and as 'a thought-provoking book which…opens up new lines of inquiry and invites comparative scholarship". [3]
Bildhauer's edited volume (with Robert Mills),The Monstrous Middle Ages,investigated how humans are distinguished from other entities,especially monsters and things. Carolyne Larrington praised for its "breadth,diversity,[and] close focus on the material and historical as well as the textuality" in The Medieval Review . [4]
Bildhauer has published on the role of the Middle Ages in modernity,especially how the Middle Ages are represented in German cinema and film theory. Her edited volume (with Anke Bernau) Medieval Film and her book Filming the Middle Ages investigates how the Middle Ages defines the modern,and how cinema is influential in this context. John Ganim described Filming the Middle Ages as "rigorously argued and researched" in Rethinking History. [5] Kevin Uhalde,writing in The Medieval Review,described The Middle Ages in the Modern World (co-edited with Chris Jones) as high-quality and coherent. [6]
Bildhauer is an Ordinary Member of the editorial board for the Journal Forum for Modern Language Studies,published by Oxford University Press. [7] She is on the editorial board for the Journal Postmedieval,published by Palgrave Macmillan. [8] She writes regularly for the Times Literary Supplement. [9]
Bildhauer delivered the New York University Medieval and Renaissance Centre Distinguished Lecture Series in Autumn 2017 on 'Inanimate Biographies. Medieval German Narratives about Material Things'. [10]
Bildhauer received a Philip Leverhulme Prize in 2009 for 'outstanding young scholars who have made a substantial and recognised contribution to their particular field of study'. [11] [12] She was awarded a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers. [13] She was awarded a Leverhulme Research Fellowship for the academic year 2017/18 for the project 'The Untold Stories of Medieval Things'. [14]
Thomas Alan Shippey is a British medievalist,a retired scholar of Middle and Old English literature as well as of modern fantasy and science fiction. He is considered one of the world's leading academic experts on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien about whom he has written several books and many scholarly papers. His book The Road to Middle-Earth has been called "the single best thing written on Tolkien".
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 17th 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 . Historians have attempted to conceptualize the history of non-European countries in terms of medievalisms,but the approach has been controversial among scholars of Latin America,Africa,and Asia.
Journal of Early Medieval Northwestern Europe is a peer-reviewed,open-access,online academic journal founded in 1998,whose first issue was published during spring/summer 1999. The editors-in-chief are currently L. J. Swain and Deanna Forsman. The title of the journal refers to the early medieval period.
Christopher John Smith,FRSE,FSA,FRHistS,is a British academic and classicist specialising in early Ancient Rome.
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 الاستشراقوالقرونالوسطىby 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 is professor of medieval history at the University of St Andrews. She is a specialist in the medieval church and its networks.
Katherine Jane Hawley (1971-2021) was a British philosopher specialising in metaphysics,epistemology,ethics,and philosophy of physics. Hawley was a professor of philosophy at the University of St Andrews. She was the author of How Things Persist,Trust:a Very Short Introduction,and How To Be Trustworthy. Hawley was elected a Fellow of Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016,elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2020,and she was the recipient of a Philip Leverhulme Prize (2003) and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (2014–16).
Kristin Mimi Lieve Leen De Troyer is an Old Testament scholar,theologian,writer and an (honorary) professor who has taught at different universities such as the University of Salzburg,the University of St Andrews,and Claremont School of Theology. She is the author of many scholarly books and articles,an editor of several academic series,and a professor and researcher of the Hebrew Bible,the Septuagint,Judaism and the Dead Sea Scrolls. Since the beginning of 2021,she serves as the Secretary of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
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 an Irish classical scholar. She is Professor of Ancient History and Archaeology and the former Head of the School of Classics at the University of St Andrews. Sweetman is known in particular for her work on the archaeology of Roman and Late Antique Greece. Since September 2022,she has been Director of the British School at Athens.
Sif Ríkharðsdóttir is a professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland.
Lisa M. C. 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.
Mary Rambaran-Olm is a literary scholar specializing in early medieval England from the fifth to eleventh centuries.
Marion Turner is the J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford and an academic authority on Geoffrey Chaucer. She has authored several books,including Chaucer:A European Life,which was shortlisted in 2020 for the Wolfson History Prize,and was a finalist in the PROSE Awards,and for which she was awarded the 2020 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize.
Maria Dornelas FRSE is a researcher in biodiversity and professor of biology based at St. Andrew's University. She was made a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2021. Her research into biodiversity change has challenged previous views,on the growth and decline of coral reefs to understanding global biodiversity with data analysis on how species or ecosystems are changing in the Anthropocene.
Katherine L. Jansen is an American historian and professor of medieval history at the Catholic University of America in Washington,D.C. She also has served as visiting professor at the Johns Hopkins University and Princeton University.
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