Team
This Project, supported by the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC, ref: 19534), began on May 1, 2005 and finished on 30 August 2010. Funded for a period of five years, it was a collaborative enterprise between the Universities of Leeds and Leicester, directed by Dr Mary Swan, Professor Elaine Treharne, Dr Orietta Da Rold and Dr Jo Story, and Dr Takako Kato was the research associate.
The Project's objectives are to provide the first full and accurate records of the manuscripts, especially those containing literary materials written principally in English from c. 1060 to 1220, and to constitute a properly formed and exceptionally valuable scholarly resource for use by the Project and all interested researchers.
The analytical work of the Project will amount to a mapping of the production of this material in terms of place, date, scribes and resources, and probable purpose. It will also situate English textual compilation in its full cultural context, bridging the traditional periodization of 'Old' and 'Middle' English and bringing to prominence a significant corpus of material whose importance for understanding the impact of the Norman Conquest and its aftermath has never before been investigated.
Project team
Principal Investigator and Director
Professor Elaine Treharne, School of English, University of Leicester, University Road Leicester, LE1 7RH
Co-applicant and Director
Dr Mary Swan, Director of Studies, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Building, 405, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
Board of Directors
Dr Orietta Da Rold, School of English, University of Leicester, University Road Leicester, LE1 7RH
Professor Jo Story, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester, University Road Leicester, LE1 7RH, Tel: +44 (0)116 252 2761
Research Associate
Dr Takako Kato, School of Humanities, Clephan Building, De Montfort University, Leicester, LE1 9BH
Senior Research and Administrative Assistant
Hollie Morgan, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York, King's Manor, Exhibition Square, York, YO1 7EP
Research and Administrative Assistant
Owen Roberson, School of English, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH
PhD Students
Thomas Gobbitt, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Building, 405, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
Kate Wiles, Institute for Medieval Studies, Parkinson Building, 405, University of Leeds, Leeds, LS2 9JT
Research Assistants
Freya E. P. Brooks, School of English, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH
Thomas Gobbitt
Johanna Green, English Language, University of Glasgow
Sanne van der Schee, School of English, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester, LE1 7RH
George Younge
Research Assistants under the Postgraduate Work Experience Scheme
Zoë Enstone
Rob Payne
Simon Patterson
Research Assistants under the GCSEs Work Experience Scheme
Molly Hogan, Leicester Grammar School (June 2009)
Helena Cooper, Leicester Grammar School (June-July 2010)
Contributors
Dr Danielle Maion, independent scholar
Dr Mark Faulkner, University College Cork
Dr Helen Foxhall Forbes, School of Historical Studies, University of Leicester
Advisory Board
Dr William Flynn, Institute for Medieval Studies, University of Leeds
Professor Tom Hall, Department of English, University of Notre Dame
Professor Ralph Hanna, Keble College, Oxford
Professor Emeritus Kevin Kiernan, University of Kentucky
Professor Ursula Lenker, English Linguistics, Catholic University Eichstt-Ingolstadt
Professor Bella Millett, English, School of Humanities, University of Southampton
Professor Andrew Prescott, Humanities Advanced Technology & Information Institute, University of Glasgow
Professor Mary Richards Emerita, Department of English, University of Delaware
Professor Jocelyn Wogan-Brown, Fordham University
Site Updates and Revisions
Dr Georgia Henley, Postdoctoral Scholar, Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis, Stanford University