Research

Medieval & Early Modern

This interdisciplinary cluster includes distinctive strengths in Shakespeare, literature and religion, poetics and metrics, translation, satire, and book history.

Staff

Publications

2027

Stacey, R. (2027) Introduction. Oxford University Press

2025

Lowe, K. (2025) Old English Charters.

Lowe, K. A. (2025) Printing Anglo-Saxon from Parker to Hickes and Wanley. With a Catalogue of Early Printed Books Containing Anglo-Saxon 1566–1705. By Peter J. Lucas. Library of the Written Word, 84. Leiden: Brill. Pp. 708. Journal of English and Germanic Philology,

Mayhew, N. (2025) Queerness in the Early Modern Russian Orthodox Church. Palgrave Macmillan

Kopaczyk-McPherson, J., Jucker, A. H. (2025) Communities of practice in the history of English. Cambridge University Press

Stacey, R. (2025) Pedagogical AI literacy: close reading Shakespeare's words. Use of English, 77, pp. 14-18.

Streete, A. (2025) Religion. Oxford University Press

Wiggins, A., Londe Silva, A. P. (2025) The Visible Hand: Identifying Adam Smith's Handwriting.

Smith, C., Nohara, S., Londe Silva, A. P., Steeds, L., Stewart, D., Wiggins, A. (2025) Adam Smith’s Library.

Wiggins, A. (2025) Talbot, Elizabeth, Countess of Shrewsbury, “Bess of Hardwick” Palgrave Macmillan

Wiggins, A. (2025) Digital materiality and early modern archives. British Academy

Mayhew, N. (2025) European ideas about homosexuality in Muscovy and the Russian Empire, sixteenth-eighteenth centuries. Slavica Publishers

Kopaczyk, J. (2025) The history of Scots. Cambridge University Press

Kopaczyk-McPherson, J. (2025) Third-wave historical sociolinguistics and communities of practice. Wiley

2024

Murray, P. J., Stacey, R. (2024) Teaching The Tempest, from sixth form to seminar: a study in collaborative pedagogy. Changing English: Studies in Culture and Education, (doi: 10.1080/1358684X.2024.2436369)

Eklund, H., Park, J., Sarkar, D., Thompson, A. (2024) Becoming undisciplined: on pathways to environmental and racial justice in early modern studies. Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 139, pp. 791-805. (doi: 10.1632/S0030812924000683)

Mayhew, N. (2024) Ukraine’s LGBTQ+ soldiers call for more rights – as Russia forces minorities into active service. Conversation,

Van Heijnsbergen, T. (2024) ‘Ann an doimhneachd: The Big Read – Cycling Paradise’ 'On Sunday: The Big Read – Cycling Paradise’ Stornoway Gazette,

Park, J. (2024) Artisans of the skin: Recipe studies and race-making in Shakespearean skincrafts. Bloomsbury Publishing

Lowe, K. (2024) Joseph Grossi, Angles on a Kingdom: East Anglian Identities from Bede to Ælfric. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2021. Pp. 385; $85. ISBN: 978-1-4875-0573-8. Speculum, 99, pp. 909-911. (doi: 10.1086/730957)

Dallachy, F. (2024) A human-scale set of categories for the Historical Thesaurus of English. Dictionaries: Journal of the Dictionary Society of North America, 45, pp. 145-168. (doi: 10.1353/dic.2024.a932064)

Streete, A. (2024) Women prophets, dissent, and the Song of Songs in seventeenth-century England. Brepols

Wiggins, A., Scott, J. (2024) Manuscript and women’s letters. Palgrave Macmillan

Scott, J., Wiggins, A. (2024) The afterlives of Mary’s letters. Edinburgh University Press

Mayhew, N. (2024) Vladimir Putin’s history war where truth is the first casualty. Conversation,

Park, J. (2024) Shakespeare, race, and science: the study of nature and/as the making of race. Oxford University Press

Streete, A. (2024) Fallacy/The Sophister (c. 1614), a Wykehamist play by William Zouche, edited by William Poole, Oxford, New College Library and Archives Publications no. 2, 2021, 225 pp., £11.00 (paperback), ISBN 9781916065116. Seventeenth Century, 39, pp. 169-170. (doi: 10.1080/0268117X.2023.2279857)

Stacey, R., Gangstad, S., King, A., Pennie, B. (2024) Critical skill-making: staff–student syllabus design in English literature. English, 73, pp. 300-307. (doi: 10.1093/english/efaf008)

Kopaczyk, J. (2024) Unpacking and capturing multilingual practices and their effects in medieval administrative and legal discourse. Edizioni dell'Orso

2023

(2023) Archives: Power, Truth, and Fiction.

Wiggins, A., Prescott, A. (2023) Introduction. Oxford University Press

Wiggins, A. (2023) The materiality of written textual forms. Oxford University Press

Putter, A., Kopaczyk, J., Bridges, V. (2023) Textual and codicological manifestations of multilingual culture in medieval England. Palgrave Macmillan

Zeldenrust, L. (2023) The greatest story ever sold? Marketing Melusine across early modern Western, Northern, and Central Europe. De Gruyter

Park, J. (2023) On Shakespeare’s legacy, critical race, and collective futures. Shakespeare Quarterly, 74, pp. 264-280. (doi: 10.1093/sq/quad029)

Van Heijnsbergen, T., Maley, W. (2023) Archipelagic Scots. Cambridge University Press

Stacey, R. (2023) Teaching whiteness in Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 18’ English, 72, pp. 22-26. (doi: 10.1093/english/efad016)

Mayhew, N. (2023) Petri, Olga. Places of Tenderness and Heat: The Queer Milieu of Fin-de-Siècle St. Petersburg. Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY and London, 2022. xx + 254 pp. Maps. Illustrations. Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index. $48.95; $31.99 (e-book). Slavonic and East European Review, 101, pp. 574-575. (doi: 10.1353/see.2023.a912482)

Mayhew, N. (2023) Russian Style: Performing Gender, Power, and Putinism by Julie A. Cassiday, Madison, WI, The University of Wisconsin Press, 2023, 255 pp., $79.95 (hardcover), ISBN 978-0-299-34670-6. Slavonica, 28, pp. 122-124. (doi: 10.1080/13617427.2024.2377890)

Mayhew, N. (2023) Contemplating the divine: How Andrey Rublev revolutionized icon painting. Times Literary Supplement,

Zeldenrust, L. (2023) Commentary article on Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales. Bloomsbury Medieval Studies, pp. 13 Apr. (doi: 10.5040/9781350895683.010)

Mayhew, N. (2023) Holy foolishness and gender transgression in Russian hagiography from the Middle Ages to Modernity. Routledge

Wiggins, A. (2023) Paper and elite ephemerality. Routledge

Kopaczyk, J. (2023) The challenges of bringing together multilingualism and multimodality: unpacking the structural model of multilingual practice. Routledge

2022

Streete, A. (2022) Introduction to Radio Three's 'Drama on Three' Production of Thomas Otway's 'Venice Preserved'

Zeldenrust, L., Lodén, S. (2022) Valentin and his wild brother in European literature: how French is a medieval French romance? Interfaces: A Journal of Medieval European Literatures, 9, pp. 144-179. (doi: 10.54103/interfaces-09-08)

Maley, W., Stacey, R. (2022) Winston Churchill’s Divi Britannici (1675) and archipelagic royalism. Humanities, 11, (doi: 10.3390/h11050109)

Mayhew, N. (2022) Petr and Fevroniia’s unorthodox marriage. Slavonic and East European Review, 100, pp. 654-673.

Alexander, M., Dallachy, F., Struan, A. (2022) Writing with the Historical Thesaurus of English.

Mayhew, N. (2022) Medieval and Trans Ways of Being. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 9, pp. 293-296. (doi: 10.1215/23289252-9612977)

Maley, W., Van Heijnsbergen, T. (2022) Scots poetry. Oxford University Press

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

Streete, A. (2022) Performing Verdi's Otello in Fin-de-Siècle London. Oxford University Press

Mayhew, N. (2022) Regulating Homosexuality in Soviet Russia, 1956–1991: a different history by Rustam Alexander, Manchester, Manchester University Press, 2021, x + 248 pp., £80.00 (hardback), ISBN: 978-1-5261-5576-4. Social History, 47, pp. 115-116. (doi: 10.1080/03071022.2022.2009703)

Stacey, R. (2022) Swearing and silver eagles: Catiline and the oath of allegiance. Studies in Philology, 119, pp. 140-169.

Streete, A. (2022) William Lawrence’s Newes from Geneva, or The Lewd Levite (1662): recovering a manuscript restoration play. Seventeenth Century, 37, pp. 779-799. (doi: 10.1080/0268117X.2022.2081596)

Mayhew, N. (2022) Мужеложство и современные представления о русской традиции гомофобии. Критика феміністична, 5, pp. 92-98.

2021

Lowe, K. A. (2021) Forging ahead. History Today, 71,

Stacey, R. (2021) Shakespeare, King James and the Northern Yorkists. Edinburgh University Press

Molineaux, B., Kopaczyk, J., Alcorn, R., Maguire, W., Karaiskos, V., Los, B. (2021) Phonotactics, graphotactics and contrast: the history of Scots dental fricative spellings. English Language and Linguistics, 25, pp. 91-119. (doi: 10.1017/S1360674319000479)

Mayhew, N. (2021) Moscow: The Third Rome. Oxford University Press

Stacey, R. (2021) The True Tragedy as a Yorkist play? Problems in textual transmission. Cambridge University Press

Dambrogio, J., Starza Smith, D., Pellecchia, J., Wiggins, A., Clarke, A., Bryson, A. (2021) The spiral-locked letters of Elizabeth I and Mary, Queen of Scots. Electronic British Library Journal, 2021, (doi: 10.23636/gyhc-b427)

2020

Molineaux, B., Maguire, W., Karaiskos, V., Alcorn, R., Kopaczyk, J., Los, B. (2020) Visualising pre-standard spelling practice: understanding the interchange of and in Older Scots. Journal of Data Mining and Digital Humanities, 2020, pp. 1-11.

Lowe, K. A. (2020) From memorandum to written record: function and formality in Old English non-literary texts. Brill

Włodarczyk, M., Kopaczyk, J., Kozak, M. (2020) Multilingualism in Greater Poland court records (1386-1448): tagging discourse boundaries and code-switching. Corpora, 15, pp. 273-290. (doi: 10.3366/cor.2020.0200)

Streete, A. (2020) Il tenebrismo nei sonetti di Shakespeare = Tenebrism in Shakespeare's Sonnets. Associazione Sigismondo Malatesta

Kopaczyk, J., Millar, R. M. (2020) Introduction. Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster

(2020) Language on the Move Across Domains and Communities. Selected Papers From the 12th Triennial Forum for Research on the Languages of Scotland and Ulster, Glasgow 2018.

Kopaczyk, J. (2020) The language of medieval legal record as a complex multilingual code. Routledge

Streete, A. (2020) Richard II, sermon culture, and the language of mockery. The Arden Shakespeare

Kopaczyk, J. (2020) Textual standardisation of legal Scots vis a vis Latin. De Gruyter Mouton

Streete, A. (2020) "I will be of Demosthenes minde": religion, polemic, and the passions in the writing of Thomas Scott, 1620–1626. Studies in Philology, 117, pp. 579-605.

Streete, A. (2020) Othello and the grammar of evil. Shakespeare Quarterly, 71, pp. 104-127. (doi: 10.1093/sq/quab016)

Alexander, M., Dallachy, F. (2020) Lexis. Routledge

Streete, A. (2020) Situating performance in early modern England. British Catholic History, 35, pp. 85-93. (doi: 10.1017/bch.2020.4)

Streete, A. (2020) 'Polemical Laughter in Thomas Middleton's 'A Game at Chess' (1624)' English Literary Renaissance, 50, pp. 296-333. (doi: 10.1086/708233)

Streete, A. (2020) Antipapal aesthetics and the Gunpowder Plot: staging Barnabe Barnes' The Devil's Charter. Routledge

Bulgakovsky, D., Mayhew, N. (2020) Xenia the Servant of God, or Andrey Fyodorovich the Holy Fool. TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly, 7, pp. 114-120. (doi: 10.1215/23289252-7914570)

Zeldenrust, L. (2020) The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe: Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts. Boydell and Brewer

Zeldenrust, L. (2020) Medieval Romances across European Borders, ed. Miriam Edlich-Muth (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018). vii + 228 pp. ISBN: 978-2-503-57716-6. €75.00. Medium Aevum, 89, pp. 197-198.

Mayhew, N. (2020) Queering sodomy: a challenge to “traditional” sexual relations in Russia. Peter Lang

Stacey, R. (2020) Samson’s cords: imposing oaths in Milton, Marvell, and Butler. Seventeenth Century, 35, pp. 257-259. (doi: 10.1080/0268117X.2019.1661673)

Kay, C., Alexander, M., Dallachy, F., Roberts, J., Samuels, M., Wotherspoon, I. (2020) The Historical Thesaurus of English, second edition.

Kopaczyk, J. (2020) Unstable content, remediated layout: urban laws in Scotland through manuscript and print. De Gruyter Mouton

2019

Lowe, K. A. (2019) Creating and curating an archive: Bury St Edmunds and its Anglo-Saxon past. Cambridge University Press

Streete, A. (2019) Robert Bearman, Shakespeare’s Money: How Much Did He Make and What Did This Mean? Notes and Queries, 66, pp. 593-595. (doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjz142)

Streete, A. (2019) Pity and Neo-Stoicism in Webster's The Duchess of Malfi. Brill

Maguire, W., Alcorn, R., Molineaux, B., Kopaczyk, J., Karaiskos, V., Los, B. (2019) Charting the rise and demise of a phonotactically motivated change in Scots. Folia Linguistica Historica, 53, pp. 37-59. (doi: 10.1515/flih-2019-0003)

Streete, A. (2019) The Johannine Renaissance in Early Modern English Literature and Theology. By Paul Cefalu. English, 68, pp. 206-208. (doi: 10.1093/english/efz008)

Streete, A. (2019) Review of Claire McEachern, 'Believing in Shakespeare: Studies in Longing' Spenser Review, 49, pp. 324.

Streete, A., Miller, L. (2019) New Approaches to Catholicism and Literature in 21st Century Scotland.

Streete, A. (2019) Sin and evil. Cambridge University Press

Wiggins, A. (2019) Bess of Hardwick's Letters: Language, Materiality and Early Modern Epistolary Culture [paperback edition] Routledge

Stacey, R. (2019) 'Degrees in schools': learning and teaching resources. Bloomsbury

Wiggins, A. (2019) Money, marriage and remembrance: telling stories from the Cavendish Financial Accounts. Manchester University Press

Streete, A., Sierhuis, F. (2019) Calvinism and theatre in early modern England and the Dutch Republic. Oxford University Press

Włodarczyk, M., Kopaczyk, J., Adamczyk, E., Makarova, O., Berger, Ł. (2019) Electronic Repository of Greater Poland Oaths (1386-1448)

Zeldenrust, L. (2019) Mélusine voyage, les traductions de romans. Silvana Editoriale

Kopaczyk, J., Krygier, M. (2019) Periodization: an evolving discipline, an evolving curriculum. The Modern Language Association of America

2018

Streete, A. (2018) Privation, deprivation and unprivation in Fulke Greville's Caelica. Oxford University Press

Streete, A. (2018) Unsettled Toleration: Religious Difference on the Shakespearean Stage, by Brian Walsh (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. vii + 221. Medieval and Renaissance Drama in England, 31,

Molineaux, B., Kopaczyk, J., Alcorn, R., Maguire, W., Karaiskos, V., Los, B. (2018) Early spelling evidence for Scots L-vocalisation: A corpus-based approach. Edinburgh University Press

(2018) Historical Dialectology in the Digital Age.

Alcorn, R., Kopaczyk, J., Los, B., Molineaux, B. (2018) Historical dialectology and the Angus McIntosh legacy. Edinburgh University Press

van Heijnsbergen, T. (2018) The culture of literature and language in Medieval and Renaissance Scotland. Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies, 35,

Kopaczyk, J., Molineaux Ress, B., Karaiskos, V., Alcorn, R., Los, B., Maguire, W. (2018) Towards a grapho-phonologically parsed corpus of medieval Scots: Database design and technical solutions. Corpora, 13, pp. 255-269. (doi: 10.3366/cor.2018.0146)

Mayhew, N. (2018) Eunuchs and ascetic masculinity in Kievan Rus. Medieval History Journal, 21, pp. 100-116. (doi: 10.1177/0971945818760119)

Streete, A. (2018) Seeing the Reformation: Religion and the Printed Image in Early Modern Europe.

Zeldenrust, L. (2018) Space, Gender, and Memory in Middle English Romance: Architectures of Wonder in ‘Melusine’. By Jan Shaw. (The New Middle Ages) New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 2016. vii+272 pp. £66.99; $99.99. ISBN 978–1–137–45650–2. Modern Language Review, 113, pp. 368-370. (doi: 10.5699/modelangrevi.113.2.0368)

Streete, A. (2018) Titus Andronicus and the rhetoric of lamentation. Cambridge University Press

Streete, A. (2018) Sejanus, Measure for Measure, and rats bane. Notes and Queries, 65, pp. 75-76. (doi: 10.1093/notesj/gjx218)

(2018) Applications of Pattern-Driven Methods in Corpus Linguistics.

Kopaczyk, J., Tyrkkö, J. (2018) Blogging around the world. John Benjamins Publishing Company

Tyrkkö, J., Kopaczyk, J. (2018) Present applications and future directions in pattern-driven approaches to corpus linguistics. John Benjamins Publishing Company

Lowe, K. A. (2018) Worcester and Wales: Copies of the Regula pastoralis in the early Middle Ages. Leiden University Press

Streete, A. (2018) Apocalypse, anti-Catholicism and the drama of royalist opposition, 1640–1661. Utz Verlag

Stacey, R. (2018) ‘The Vow is Made’: communal swearing and succession in Titus Andronicus. Forum for Modern Language Studies, 54, pp. 60-72. (doi: 10.1093/fmls/cqx081)

Zeldenrust, L. (2018) Helen J. Swift, Representing the Dead: Epitaph Fictions in Late-Medieval France, Gallica 40 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016). xiv + 334 pp.; 5 colour plates, 21 black-and-white illustrations. ISBN 978-1-84384-436-5. Medium Aevum, 87, pp. 182-183.

Streete, A. (2018) Review of Michael Gaudio, The Bible and the Printed Image in Early Modern England: Little Gidding and the Pursuit of Scriptural Harmony. London: Routledge, 2017. Renaissance Quarterly, 71, pp. 1477-1479.

Wiggins, A. (2018) The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist XXII: Manuscripts in Christ’s, Emmanuel, Jesus, Selwyn and Sidney Sussex Colleges, Peterhouse and Trinity Hall, Cambridge, ed. Angela M. Lucas. Cambridge: Brewer, 2016. The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist XXIII: The Rawlinson Collection, Bodleian Library, Oxford, ed. S.J. Ogilvie-Thomson. Cambridge: Brewer, 2017. Archives, 53, pp. 75-86. (doi: 10.3828/archives.2018.6)

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Crossing disciplines is a hallmark of research into the medieval and early modern periods, and the School’s provision in this area is closely linked to our interdisciplinary network, Medieval and Renaissance Studies at Glasgow (MRSG).  MRSG brings together some 60 specialists across and beyond the College of Arts & Humanities. The School houses many world-class experts in medieval and early modern literature, and a large community of postgraduates (MLitt, MPhil, PhD), many of them working on interdisciplinary topics through the Network.  Colleagues work on such diverse topics as religion and gender in early medieval and medieval English poetry (notably Langland studies); poetics and metrics; the application of postcolonial theory to the study of early modern literature in Britain and Ireland; comedy, satire and laughter; and early modern translation (linking with the Translation cluster). 

Recent relevant initiatives include research on Celtic Shakespeare and a new international network on the history of the senses.  Strengths in the study of Older Scots literary culture link this cluster with researchers in Scottish literature.  Work on religious developments in the long period from Lollardy through the Reformation and beyond, and including work on Islamic, Judaic and Arabic thought, links with our Religion clusters. There is particular expertise in book history from a 'historical pragmatics' perspective, e.g. the Mellon-funded Making Medieval English Manuscripts project or the RSE-funded Textual Afterlives initiative; much work is undertaken on Glasgow’s world-famous Hunterian Collection of manuscripts and early printed books, which has significant holdings of both western and eastern materials. The cluster also hosted the Leverhulme-funded project ‘Polemical Laughter in English Literary Culture, 1500-1700’.

Outreach is a growing feature of this cluster’s work.  For instance, the completion of the AHRC-funded Letters of Bess of Hardwick project was marked by a major exhibition, Unsealed: The Letters of Bess of Hardwick, held at the National Trust's Hardwick Hall, and at the National Archives at Kew, attracting over 300,000 visitors. Past conferences hosted have included those of the Early Book and New Chaucer Societies, and we regularly maintain a major presence at both events.