Dr Philip Shaw

BA (Oxford), PhD (Leeds)

Room 2.20, Jessop West
1 Upper Hanover Street
Sheffield
S3 7RA

Internal extension: 20212
Phone number: +44 (0)114-222-0212

email : p.a.shaw@sheffield.ac.uk

I joined the Department of English Language and Linguistics (now part of the School of English Literature, Language and Linguistics) in May 2005, having spent the previous fifteen months working as a Research Associate on the Partonopeus de Blois Electronic Edition Project. Before that I had completed a PhD on the Germanic deity Wodan in the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds, and had worked as a visiting tutor in several departments at Leeds and Sheffield. I was also the first editor of Medieval History Magazine.

My research interests include Old English language and literature, early Middle English language and literature, and Anglo-Latin in the Middle Ages. I am also interested in the development and use of electronic resources in Medieval Studies. I am currently supervising PhD projects on Germanic languages in sub-Roman Britain and, as part of the White Rose "Reading the Medieval Book" network, the medieval library of St Guthlac's Priory, Hereford.

Selected Publications

I have recently co-edited a volume of essays, Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages, in the Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters series of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. I have articles forthcoming on Marian miracle collections, the origins and development of the term taranta ('tarantula') in medieval Latin and Old French (with Penny Eley), and the orthography of early Anglo-Saxon coin inscriptions. Published articles to date include:

  • 'Miracle as Magic: Hagiographic Sources for a Group of Norse Mythographic Motifs?', in Miracles and the Miraculous in Medieval Germanic and Latin Literature, ed. by K. E. Olsen, A. Harbus and T. Hofstra (Leuven: Peeters, 2004), pp. 189-204
  • 'A Dead Killer? Saint Mercurius, Killer of Julian the Apostate, in the Works of William of Malmesbury', Leeds Studies in English, n.s. 35 (2004), 1-22
  • 'The Manuscript Texts of "Against a Dwarf"', in Writing and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by Alexander R. Rumble, Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies, 5 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2006), pp. 96-113
  • 'Hair and Heathens: Picturing Pagans and the Carolingian Connection in the Exeter Book and Beowulf-Manuscript', in Texts and Identities in the Early Middle Ages, ed. by Richard Corradini, Rob Meens, Christina Pössel and Philip Shaw, Forschungen zur Geschichte des Mittelalters, 12 (Vienna: Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2006), pp. 345-57

31 March 09