Notes on Contributors
Lindy Brady
is Assistant Professor and Ad Astra Fellow in the School of History at University College Dublin. She is the author of Writing the Welsh Borderlands in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester University Press, 2017) and The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain and Ireland (Cambridge University Press, 2022).
Erica Buchberger
is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley. Her research focuses on ethnic and religious identity in early medieval Gaul and Iberia.
Thomas M. Charles-Edwards
is Professor Emeritus of Celtic at Jesus College, Oxford. His numerous publications include Early Christian Ireland (Cambridge, 2000) and Wales and the Britons, 350–1064 (Oxford, 2013).
Michael Clarke
is Established Professor of Classics at NUI Galway. He works on transmission and reception in ancient and medieval literatures, with a special focus on Togail Troí and other Middle Irish Antiquity sagas.
Marios Costambeys
is Reader in Medieval History at the University of Liverpool. He is the author of Power and Patronage in Early Medieval Italy and co-author of The Carolingian World.
Katherine Cross
is a historian of early medieval northern Europe. Her book, Heirs of the Vikings, explores the uses of viking identities in the early Middle Ages. She is a Research Associate at the University of York and previously worked on the Empires of Faith project at the British Museum and University of Oxford.
Helen Fulton
is Chair of Medieval Literature at the University of Bristol. She has published widely on the intersections between medieval Welsh, English, and French literatures. She is the co-editor of the Cambridge History of Welsh Literature (2019) and the editor of Chaucer and Italian Culture (2021).
Shami Ghosh
is Associate Professor of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. Previous publications include Kings’ Sagas and Norwegian History (2011), and Writing the Barbarian Past: Studies in Early Medieval Historical Narrative (2016).
Ben Guy
is a Research Associate in the School of Welsh at Cardiff University. His research interests range widely across early Insular history, medieval historical writing, Welsh manuscripts, and medieval Welsh language and literature. He is the author of Medieval Welsh Genealogy: An Introduction and Textual Study (Boydell, 2020).
Judith Jesch
is Professor of Viking Studies at the University of Nottingham and a Fellow of the British Academy. She publishes widely in Old Norse and Viking Studies.
Catherine E. Karkov
is Chair of Art History at the University of Leeds. Her publications include The Art of Anglo-Saxon England (Woodbridge, 2011), Imagining Anglo-Saxon England: Utopia, Heterotopia, Dystopia (Woodbridge, 2020), and Art and the Formation of Early Medieval England (Cambridge, 2022).
Robert Kasperski
is Associate Professor at the Tadeusz Manteuffel Institute of History of the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published papers on history and historiography of the Goths in such journals as Frühmittelalterliche Studien, Viator, and The Mediaeval Journal.
John D. Niles
is the author of Beowulf: The Poem and Its Tradition and a number of other books relating to early medieval literature. He is Emeritus Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
Conor O’Brien
is Fellow in History at the Queen’s College, Oxford. He has worked primarily on the history of the early medieval British Isles, his book Bede’s Temple having won the 2017 Best Book Prize from the (then) International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.
Alheydis Plassmann
is Senior Lecturer at the University of Bonn and main editor of the journal Rheinische Vierteljahrsblätter. She is the author of Origo gentis. Identitäts- und Legitimitätsstiftung in früh- und hochmittelalterlichen Herkunftserzählungen (2006). Other fields of her research are Frederick I Barbarossa and the Normans.
Andrew Rabin
is a Professor of English at the University of Louisville. His recent books include Wulfstan: Old English Legal Writings (Harvard, 2020) and Crime and Punishment in Anglo-Saxon England (Cambridge, 2020). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
Helmut Reimitz
is Professor of History at Princeton University, where he has taught late-antique and medieval history since 2008. He is also currently the director of the Program in Medieval Studies at Princeton.
Robert W. Rix
is Associate Professor at the University of Copenhagen. He has published widely on myths and legends including the monograph The Barbarian North in Medieval Imagination: Ethnicity, Legend, and Literature (Routledge, 2014). His forthcoming book examines the representation of Greenland in Western culture and literature.
Patrick Wadden
is an Associate Professor of History at Belmont Abbey College, North Carolina and an Associate of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University. His research focuses on the history and intellectual culture of early Ireland and Britain.