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Recent Doctoral Projects at Oxford

Piers Plowman MS

Here are some examples of doctoral projects recently completed in Oxford:

English, 2006

Kate McLune, St. John's College
The poetry of John Stewart of Baldynneis
Supervisor: Dr S. Mapstone

Laura Taylor, St. John's College
The representation of land and ownership in Medieval Icelandic texts
Supervisor: Dr H. O'Donoghue

Jonathan Thorpe, Linacre College
Editing the sectional rubrics of Piers Plowman and the Canterbury Tales
Supervisor: Professor R. Hanna

Tamsin Woodward-Smith, St. Peter's College
A critical study of the manuscripts and context of the Middle English Orcherd of Syon with particular attention to its use of garden imagery
Supervisor: Dr H. Spencer

English, 2005

Miranda Hogdson, Linacre College
Constructions of female sanctity in Anglo-Saxon and Old Norse Religious Prose
Supervisors: Dr H. O'Donoghue, Dr H. Barr

Victoria Condie, St. Hilda's
Representations of the nativity in the art and vernacular literature of the Anglo-Saxons
Supervisor: Professor M. Godden

Matthew Fisher, Lady Margaret Hall
Once called Albion: The composition and transmission of history writing in England 1280–1350
Supervisor: Professor A. Hudson