Dr Kathryn Lowe

Senior Lecturer in Old and Middle English (English Language & Linguistics)

telephone: 01413305150
email: Kathryn.Lowe@glasgow.ac.uk
pronouns: She/her/hers

R404 Level 4, English Language, 12 University Gardens, Glasgow G12 8QH

Research interests

Old and Middle English Language and Literature
Old Icelandic
History of the English Language
Manuscript Studies and Textual Criticism
Anglo-Saxon Charter Studies and Diplomatics
Literacy
History of Anglo-Saxon scholarship

Biography

Dr Kathryn Lowe is a Senior Lecturer in Old and Middle English. Dr Lowe is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. She is a member of the International advisory board for the Dictionary of Old English project https://doe.artsci.utoronto.ca/, and a Council member for the Early English Text Society https://users.ox.ac.uk/~eets/index.html.

Dr Lowe’s teaching interests include Old and Middle English language and literature, Old Icelandic, history of the English language, and manuscript studies. She would be delighted to supervise suitably qualified postgraduate students in Old English language and literature, Middle English language, history of the English language, the history of scholarship, and manuscript studies.

Dr Lowe is currently completing a new edition of the Anglo-Saxon charters of Bury St Edmunds. This volume is to form part of the Anglo-Saxon Charters Series, a project published by Oxford University Press and sponsored jointly by the British Academy and Royal Historical Society. She is responsible for producing the editions and translations of the charters themselves together with related discussion on language, the archive and its textual transmission. Prof. Sarah Foot (Oxford) is writing the historical analysis and commentary to the edition.

Dr Lowe is author of many articles on Old and Middle English language and literature, with a focus on the transition from Old to Middle English. Her principal research interests are in Old English language, textual transmission, charter studies, the history of literacy and the history of scholarship.

Dr Lowe was Director of the Glasgow Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies 1998-2010. She has served on on the Council of the Viking Society for Northern Research and the Advisory Board of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists (now International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England). She was consultant on documentary materials to the Linguistic Atlas of Early Middle English (principal author Margaret Laing), and Section Editor for Medieval Literature of the Routledge Annotated Bibliography of English Studies.

Dr Lowe was PI on “Manuscripts of Ælfric's Catholic Homilies”, part of the project cluster “Making Medieval English Manuscript: New Knowledge, New Technologies” funded by the Andrew W. Mellon foundation (Scholarly Communication and Information Technology Program), 2011-13.

Publications

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Number of items: 55.

2022

Lowe, K. A. (2022) The Chronology and Canon of Ælfric of Eynsham by Aaron J. Kleist. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 121(2), pp. 251-253. [Book Review]

2021

Lowe, K. A. (2021) Forging ahead. History Today, 71(8), [Book Review]

2020

Lowe, K. A. (2020) From memorandum to written record: function and formality in Old English non-literary texts. In: Gallagher, R., Roberts, E. and Tinti, F. (eds.) The Languages of Early Medieval Charters: Latin, Germanic Vernaculars, and the Written Word. Series: Brill’s series on the early Middle Ages, 27. Brill: Leiden, The Netherlands, pp. 440-487. ISBN 9789004428119 (doi: 10.1163/9789004432338_013)

2019

Lowe, K. A. (2019) Creating and curating an archive: Bury St Edmunds and its Anglo-Saxon past. In: Jahner, J., Steiner, E. and Tyler, E. M. (eds.) Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500-1500. Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, pp. 192-207. ISBN 9781316681299 (doi: 10.1017/9781316681299.012)

2018

Lowe, K. A. (2018) Worcester and Wales: Copies of the Regula pastoralis in the early Middle Ages. In: Kwakkel, E. (ed.) Vernacular Manuscript Culture 1000-1500. Leiden University Press: Leiden. ISBN 9789087283025

2017

Lowe, K. (2017) Early textual resources. In: Brinton, L. J. and Bergs, A. (eds.) The History of English: Volume 2 Old English. Series: Mouton reader, 2. De Gruyter Mouton: Berlin, pp. 254-270. ISBN 9783110522730 (doi: 10.1515/9783110525304-014)

2016

Lowe, K. (2016) Ben Snook, The Anglo-Saxon chancery: the history, language and production of Anglo-Saxon charters from Alfred to Edgar. Speculum, 91(3), pp. 848-849. (doi: 10.1086/686510)[Book Review]

2015

Lowe, K. A. (2015) Filling the silence: shared content in four related manuscripts of Ælfric’s catholic homilies. Digital Philology: A Journal of Medieval Cultures, 4(2), pp. 190-224. (doi: 10.1353/dph.2015.0011)

2013

Lowe, K. (2013) Reading the unreadable: lay literacy and negotiation of text in Anglo-Saxon England. In: Kwakkel, E. (ed.) Writing in Context: Insular Manuscript Culture 500-1200. Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture. Leiden University Press: Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 152-183. ISBN 9789087281823

2012

Lowe, K.A. (2012) From quill to T-PEN: palaeography, editing and their e-future. Literature Compass, 9(12), pp. 1004-1009. (doi: 10.1111/lic3.12014)

Lowe, K. (2012) Bury St Edmunds and its liberty: a charter-text and its afterlife. In: Edwards, A.S.G. and Da Rold, O. (eds.) English Manuscripts Before 1400. Series: English manuscript studies 1100-1700 (17). The British Library, pp. 155-172. ISBN 9780712358835

Lowe, K. (2012) Resources: Early textual resources. In: Berg, A. and Brinton, L. (eds.) English Historical Linguistics: An International Handbook. Series: Handbooks of Linguistics and Communication Science, 2 (34.2). Mouton de Gruyter: Berlin, Germany, pp. 1119-1131. ISBN 311020265

Lowe, K. (2012) Review of: The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English' edited by Elaine Treharne and Greg Walker (Oxford: Oxford University Press). Mediæval Journal, 1(2), pp. 119-120. [Book Review]

2010

Lowe, K. (2010) Cartulary. In: Suarez, M.F. and Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198606536

Lowe, K. (2010) Charters. In: Suarez, M.F. and Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198606536

Lowe, K. (2010) Genealogical rolls. In: Suarez, M.F. and Woudhuysen, H.R. (eds.) The Oxford Companion to the Book. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198606536

Lowe, K. (2010) Linguistic geography, demography, and monastic community: scribal language at Bury St Edmunds. In: Hall, A., Kilpiö, M., Timofeeva, O., Kiricsi, A. and Fox, B. (eds.) Interfaces Between Language and Culture in Medieval England: A Festschrift for Matti Kilpiö. Series: The Northern World (48). Brill: Leiden, Netherlands, pp. 147-178. ISBN 9789004180116

2009

Lowe, K.A. (2009) Review of Gender, nation and conquest in the works of William of Malmesbury by K. A. Fenton. Times Literary Supplement, 3rd Ju, p. 27. [Book Review]

2008

Lowe, K.A. (2008) The exchequer, the chancery, and the abbey of Bury St Edmunds: inspeximus charters and their enrolments. In: Edwards, A.S.G. (ed.) Regional Manuscript Studies 1200-1700. Series: English manuscript studies 1100-1700 (14). The British Library, pp. 1-26. ISBN 9780712349888

2007

Lowe, K.A. (2007) Post-conquest bilingual composition in memoranda from Bury St. Edmunds. Review of English Studies, 59(238), pp. 52-66. (doi: 10.1093/res/hgl156)

2006

Lowe, K.A. (2006) The poetry of privilege: Lydgate's Cartae Versificatae. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 50, pp. 151-165.

Lowe, K. (2006) Review of The King's English: strategies of translation in the Old English Boethius by N. G. Discenza. Translation and Literature, 15, pp. 265-268. [Book Review]

2005

Lowe, K.A. (2005) Mearcella in S 703 and the etymology of Childrey Brook (Berkshire). Journal of the English Place-Name Society, 37, pp. 19-31.

Lowe, K.A. (2005) Palaeography. In: Brown, E.K., Asher, R.E. and Simpson, J.M.Y. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9780080442990

Lowe, K.A. (2005) Review of The making of Medieval forgeries: false documents in fifteenth-century England by A. Hiatt. SHARP News, 14, pp. 14-15. [Book Review]

Lowe, K.A. (2005) Runes. In: Brown, E.K., Asher, R.E. and Simpson, J.M.Y. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Elsevier: Amsterdam, Netherlands. ISBN 9780080442990

2004

Lowe, K.A. (2004) The Anglo-Saxon contents of a lost register from Bury St Edmunds. Anglia Zeitschrift fur Englische Philologie, 121(4), pp. 515-534. (doi: 10.1515/ANGL.2003.515)

Lowe, K.A. (2004) Review of: The Culture of translation in Anglo-Saxon England, by Robert Stanton. Translation and Literature, 13(1), pp. 94-100. (doi: 10.3366/tal.2004.13.1.94)[Book Review]

2003

Lowe, K.A. (2003) Sawyer 1070: a ghost writ of King Edward the Confessor. Notes and Queries, 50(2), pp. 150-152. (doi: 10.1093/nq/50.2.150)

2002

Hough, C. and Lowe, K.A. (Eds.) (2002) "Lastworda Betst": Essays in Memory of Christine E. Fell, with her Unpublished Writings. Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK. ISBN 9781900289535

Lowe, K.A. (2002) A fine and private place: The Wife's Lament, II.33-34, the translators and the critics. In: Hough, C. and Lowe, K.A. (eds.) "Lastworda Betst": Essays in Memory of Christine E. Fell, with her Unpublished Writings. Shaun Tyas: Donington, UK, pp. 122-143. ISBN 9781900289535

Lowe, K.A. (2002) S 507 and the abbey of Bury St Edmunds: manuscript preservation and transmission in the middle ages. In: Fellows-Jensen, G. and Springborg, P. (eds.) Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 6: Proceedings of the Sixth International Seminar Held at the Royal Library, Copenhagen 19th-20th October 2000. Museum Tusculanum Press: Copenhagen, Denmark, pp. 85-105. ISBN 9788772897790

2001

Lowe, K.A. (2001) Elders and betters: Hinderclay in Suffolk. Journal of the English Place-Name Society, 33, pp. 15-20.

Lowe, K.A. (2001) On the plausibility of Old English dialectology: the ninth-century Kentish charter material. Folia Linguistica Historica, 22(1-2), pp. 67-102. (doi: 10.1515/flih.2001.22.1-2.67)

Lowe, K.A. (2001) Review of The four funerals in Beowulf and the structure of the poem by G. Owen-Crocker. Bulletin of International Medieval Research, 7, pp. 43-44. [Book Review]

2000

Lowe, K.A. (2000) "The oracle of his countrey"? William Somner, Gavelkind, and lexicography in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. In: Graham, T. (ed.) The Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Series: Publications of the Richard Rawlinson Center. Medieval Institute Publications, Western Michigan University: Kalamazoo, Mich., USA, pp. 289-310. ISBN 9781580440134

Lowe, K.A. (2000) Review of Maxims in Old English Poetry by P. Cavill. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 44, pp. 204-206. [Book Review]

1999

Lowe, K. (1999) Chirographs. In: Lapidge, M., Blair, J., Keynes, S. and Scragg, D. (eds.) Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780631155652

Lowe, K. (1999) Wills. In: Lapidge, M., Blair, J., Keynes, S. and Scragg, D. (eds.) Blackwell Encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England. Blackwell Publishing: Oxford, UK. ISBN 9780631155652

Lowe, K.A. (1999) Latin versions of Old English wills. Journal of Legal History, 20(1), pp. 1-23. (doi: 10.1080/01440362008539583)

Lowe, K.A. (1999) William Somner, S 1622, and the editing of Old English charters. Neophilologus, 83(2), pp. 291-297. (doi: 10.1023/A:1004465207414)

1998

Lowe, K. (1998) In memoriam: Christine Elizabeth Fell (1938-1998). Old English Newsletter, 32(1), p. 10.

Lowe, K. (1998) Penda of Mercia. In: Szarmach, P.E., Tavormina, M.T. and Rosenthal, J.T. (eds.) Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Series: Garland reference library of the humanities (907). Garland: New York, USA. ISBN 9780824057862

Lowe, K. (1998) Queens and queenship. In: Szarmach, P.E., Tavormina, M.T. and Rosenthal, J.T. (eds.) Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Series: Garland reference library of the humanities (907). Garland: New York, USA. ISBN 9780824057862

Lowe, K. (1998) St. Boniface. In: Szarmach, P.E., Tavormina, M.T. and Rosenthal, J.T. (eds.) Medieval England: An Encyclopedia. Series: Garland reference library of the humanities (907). Garland: New York, USA. ISBN 9780824057862

Lowe, K.A. (1998) The development of the Anglo-Saxon boundary clause. Nomina: Journal of the Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland, 21, pp. 63-100.

Lowe, K.A. (1998) Lay literacy in Anglo-Saxon England and the development of the chirograph. In: Pulsiano, P. and Treharne, E.M. (eds.) Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts and their Heritage. Ashgate: Aldershot, UK, pp. 161-204. ISBN 9781859281581

Lowe, K.A. (1998) The nature and effect of the Anglo-Saxon vernacular will. Journal of Legal History, 19, pp. 23-61.

1995

Lowe, K. (1995) Review of S. Hollis, Anglo-Saxon women and the church: sharing a common fate. Parergon, 13, pp. 168-170. [Book Review]

1994

Lowe, K.A. (1994) Palaeography. In: Asher, R.E. and Simpson, J.M.Y. (eds.) The Encyclopedia of Language and Linguistics. Pergamon: Oxford, UK, pp. 2900-2906. ISBN 9780080359434

1993

Lowe, K.A. (1993) "As fre as thowt?": some medieval copies and translations of Old English wills. English Manuscript Studies, 1100-1700, 4, pp. 1-23.

Lowe, K.A. (1993) Never say nefa again: problems of translation in Old English charters. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 94, pp. 27-35.

1992

Lowe, K.A. (1992) Two thirteenth-century cartularies from Bury St Edmunds: a study in textual transmission. Neuphilologische Mitteilungen: Bulletin of the Modern Language Society, 93, pp. 293-301.

1991

Lowe, K.A. (1991) Swutelung/swutelian and the dating of an Old English charter (Sawyer 1524). Notes and Queries, 38(4), pp. 450-452.

1989

Lowe, K.A. (1989) A new edition of the will of Wulfgyth. Notes and Queries, 36(3), pp. 295-298.

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