Notes on Contributors
Laurie Atkinson
is a Teaching Assistant and Research Assistant in the Department of English Studies, University of Durham, and MHRA Research Associate for the new edition of the works of Geoffrey Chaucer in preparation for publication with Cambridge University Press. He has published on Thomas Hoccleve, Stephen Hawes, and William Dunbar. His current research, which he will be pursuing as a Teaching Fellow at the University of Tübingen from April 2022, is on early English print.
Richard Beadle
is Emeritus Professor of Medieval English Literature and Palaeography in the Faculty of English, University of Cambridge, and Fellow in English at St John’s College. Among his more recent publications are Paston Letters and Papers of the Fifteenth Century: Part III (2006), and The York Plays, 2 vols (2009–13), both for the Early English Text Society, and Henry Bradshaw and the Foundations of Codicology (2017).
Julia Boffey
is Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of English at Queen Mary, University of London. Her interests include Middle English verse, especially lyrics and dream poetry; and the relationships between manuscript and print in the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries.
Margaret Connolly
is Professor of English and History at the University of St Andrews where she teaches palaeography and medieval literature. Her publications include John Shirley: Book Production and the Noble Household in Fifteenth-Century England (1998) and Sixteenth-Century Readers, Fifteenth-Century Books: Continuities of Reading in the English Reformation (2019); she has also published critical editions for the Early English Text Society and Middle English Texts, and a volume for the Index of Middle English Prose.
Martha W. Driver
is Distinguished Professor of English and Women’s and Gender Studies at Pace University in New York City. A co-founder of the Early Book Society for the study of manuscripts and printing history, she writes about illustration from manuscript to print, book production, and the early history of publishing. Her publications include The Image in Print: Book Illustration in Late Medieval England (2004) and An Index of Images in English Manuscripts from Chaucer to Henry VIII: New York City, with Michael Orr (2007). She contributed to and edited Preaching the Word in Manuscript and Print in Late Medieval England: Essays in Honour of Susan Powell with Veronica O’Mara (2013) and edited, with Robert F. Yeager and Derek Pearsall, John Gower in Manuscripts and Early Printed Books (2020).
A.S.G. Edwards
is Honorary Visiting Professor in the School of English, University of Kent and at King’s and University Colleges, London. He is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries and the English Association.
Richard Gameson
is Professor of the History of the Book at Durham University. He has published more than a hundred studies of medieval manuscripts, book collections, and art, his most recent book being The Medieval Manuscripts of Trinity College, Oxford: A Descriptive Catalogue (2018). He is currently preparing a catalogue of the medieval manuscripts of Durham Cathedral.
Ralph Hanna
is Professor of Palaeography (Emeritus), University of Oxford, and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford. His books include Pursuing History: Middle English Manuscripts and their Texts (1996), London Literature, 1300–1380 (2005), Introducing English Medieval Book History: Manuscripts, their Producers and their Readers (2014), and Editing Medieval Texts: An Introduction (2015), and editions of a number of Middle English, early Scots, and Anglo-Latin texts, most recently Robert Holcot, Exegete: Selections from the Commentary on Minor Prophets (2021). He collaborated with Ian Doyle in producing a revised list of manuscripts transmitting the works of Richard Rolle.
Richard Lawrie
has an MA and PhD in History from the University of Durham, and an MLitt in Archives and Records Management from the University of Dundee. He served as Vice-Master and Senior Tutor of University College, Durham, and was previously Secretary of the Senior Common Room of University College, a role in which he worked closely with Ian Doyle. He has taught in the departments of History and Education at Durham.
William Marx
is Reader Emeritus in Medieval Literature and Manuscript Studies, University of Wales Trinity Saint David, Lampeter, and a fellow of the Learned Society of Wales. His research is in manuscript studies, medieval theology and literature, chronicles, and editing medieval texts. He is one of the general editors of the series Middle English Texts and serves on the Council of the Early English Text Society.
Carol M. Meale
taught at the Universities of York and Bristol, and whilst Reader in Medieval Studies at the latter institution, founded the Centre for Medieval Studies, in 1994. Following retirement she is now Senior Research Fellow in the Department of English at Bristol. Her scholarly interests run from Chaucer to Skelton and centre on manuscript production and reception on a range of topics. She has written widely on women and literature. Her latest published work is on John Skelton and the illustrated manuscripts of Middle English romance.
Linne Mooney
is Emerita Professor of Medieval English Palaeography at the University of York. Her research and publications focussed on late medieval English scribes, particularly those who wrote manuscripts of the major Middle English poets Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, Thomas Hoccleve, William Langland, and John Trevisa. Particularly after taking up her post at York, she consulted often with Dr Doyle about scribes whose hands appeared in more than one late medieval English manuscript, and carried on his work creating a list of such scribes.
Veronica O’Mara
is a Visiting Research Fellow in the Institute for Medieval Studies at the University of Leeds. Her research and publications focus on the interlinked areas of Birgittine studies, female literacy, hagiography, preaching, and the relationship of manuscript and print in medieval and early modern England. Her most recent publication is Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: The Antwerp Dialogue, ed. by Virginia Blanton, Veronica O’Mara, and Patricia Stoop (2017).
Derek Pearsall †
was Co-Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York and Gurney Professor of English Literature, Harvard University. He wrote and published widely on Chaucer, Langland, Gower, manuscript studies, and medieval history and culture. His books include Piers Plowman: An Edition of the C-Text (2008), Gothic Europe (2001), and The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer: A Critical Biography (1992). He died on 14 October 2021, just before publication of this book.
Susan (Sue) Powell
is Emeritus Professor of Medieval Texts and Culture, University of Salford. She is an editor of manuscripts and early printed books, with a particular focus on religious and devotional texts and institutions. She is currently editing the household accounts of Lady Margaret Beaufort for publication by the British Academy (Records of Social and Economic History).
Elizabeth Rainey
succeeded Ian Doyle as Keeper of Rare Books at Durham University Library in 1983, and from 1996–2001 was head of the Library’s Archives and Special Collections.
Pamela Robinson
is Reader Emerita in Palaeography and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of English Studies, University of London. Her latest publication is a Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts Containing Latin Commentaries on Aristotle in British Libraries: Volume III: Aberdeen – York (2020).
David Rundle
is Lecturer in Latin and Palaeography in the Centre for Medieval and Early Modern Studies, University of Kent. He is the author of The Renaissance Reform of the Book and Britain (2019) and, with Ralph Hanna, of A Descriptive Catalogue of the Western Manuscripts to c. 1600 in Christ Church, Oxford (2017).
Corinne Saunders
is Professor of Medieval Literature in the Department of English Studies, University of Durham, and co-directs Durham’s Institute for Medical Humanities. She specialises in romance writing and history of ideas, with particular interests in medicine, emotions, gender, and the body. Her third monograph, Magic and the Supernatural in Medieval English Romance, was published in 2010. Recent co-edited books include Romance Re-Written: The Evolution of Medieval Romance (2018), and Visions and Voice-Hearing in Medieval and Early Modern Contexts (2020). She is Editor for English Language and Literature of the journal Medium Ævum.
Kathleen L. Scott
is an independent scholar who since early 1962 has been working on the images and borders in late fourteenth- to sixteenth-century English manuscripts and identifying an artist’s work in various manuscripts. Her many publications include Later Gothic Manuscripts, 1390–1490 (1996), Dated and Datable English Manuscript Borders, c.1395–1499 (2002), and Tradition and Innovation in Later Medieval English Manuscripts (2007).
Toshiyuki (Toshi) Takamiya
(FSA, Hon. LittD (Sheffield), Hon. DLitt (Glasgow)) is Professor Emeritus, Keio University, Japan, and was Sandars Reader in Bibliography 2016–2017. His academic interests lie in Malory and Caxton, and the History of the Book. He has published many books and articles, including Aspects of Malory, jointly edited with Derek Brewer (1981, 1986), and given papers and organised symposia at academic meetings, including of the New Chaucer Society, International Arthurian Society, and Early Book Society.
James Willoughby
is Research Fellow in Medieval History at New College, Oxford. He is series editor for the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues and director of the online resource Medieval Libraries of Great Britain.