Directory of Research and Expertise

Journal articles

in Medieval English Syntax: Studies in Honor of Michiko Ogura, ed. M. J. Toswell and Taro Ishiguro (Berlin: Peter Lang, 2022), 285–302

Journal articles

in Exploring Early Medieval English Eloquence: A Thesaurus of Old English and the Platform Evoke A special issue, Amsterdammer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 81: 2-3 (Fall, 2021): 297–347

Chapters

in Old English Tradition: Essays in Honor of J. R. Hall, ed. Lindy Brady, Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 578 (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval & Renaissance Studies, 2021),  pp. 21–35

Review

Library & Information History 37.2 (2021), 182–83

Journal articles

Poetica 93 & 94 (2000): 15–28

Review

Library & Information History 36.1 (2020): 57–58

Chapters

in Guthlac, Crowland’s Saint, eds Jane Roberts and Alan Thacker (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020), pp. 242−73

Chapters

with Alan Thacker, in Guthlac, Crowland’s Saint, eds Jane Roberts and Alan Thacker (Donington: Shaun Tyas, 2020), pp. xiv–xlvi

Journal articles

Journal of Philology 67–68.3–4 (2019): 149–55

Chapters

with Pamela Robinson, in A Companion to the History of the Book, 3nd ed., ed. Simon Eliot and Jonathan Rose, 2 vols (Hoboken, New Jersey; Chichester, West Sussex, England : Wiley-Blackwell, 2020), I, pp. 51–64

Articles

to re-issue: George Kane, Middle English Literature, Routledge Library Editions: The Medieval World 24 (London: Routledge, 2019), 5 pp. at front of book

Review

Review of English Studies 70. 295 (June 2019): 552–54

Journal articles

Notes and Queries 66.1 (March 2019): 34–36

Conference papers

in Aspects of Medieval English Language and Literature, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature Vol. 55 (Peter Lang, 2019), pp. 259–72 (ISBN: 978-3-631-78032-9)

Conference papers

ed. Emma Volodarskaya and Jane Roberts ISBN 978-5-88966-097-2

Conference papers

in ‘Language, culture, and society in Russian/English studies’: the proceedings of the fifth conference, 5−6 August 2014,   180–92

Edited Book

ed. Emma Volodarskaya and Jane Roberts [London, 2015] ISBN 978-5-88966-096-5

Research aids

for University of Calgary / British Library Website on London, British Library, Cotton MS Nero A. x

Review

Julia Marvin, The Construction of Vernacular History in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle: The Manuscript Culture of Late Medieval England (York: York Medieval Press in association with The Boydell Press, 2017): Journal of the Early Book Society (2017), 299–302

Chapters

in The Daily Lives of the Anglo-Saxons, edited by Carole Biggam, Carole Hough and Daria Izdebska, Essays in Anglo-Saxon Studies 8, Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS) 2018, pp. 17−41

Edited Book

 ed. Jane Roberts and Trudi L. Darby (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars, 2017)

Chapters

in The Psalms and Medieval English Literature. From the Conversion to the Reformation, ed. Tamara Atkin and Francis Leneghan (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2017), pp. 37–71

Review

History 102.350 (April, 2017)

Review

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg Studies in Manuscript Culture, 2 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015): History 102.349 (Jan. 2017): 129-31

with Louise Sylvester, in ‘Errors: Communication and its Discontents’, Altre Modernità 17 (2017), 18–35

Journal articles

Daniel F. Kenneally and Jane Roberts, ‘Oswald Cockayne (c.1808–1873)’, Poetica 86 (2016), 107–37

Chapters

Mapping English Metaphor Through Time (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 243-59

Review

 Helen Foxhall Forbes, Heaven and Earth in Anglo-Saxon England: Theology and Society in an Age of Faith (Farnham, UK and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2013): The Journal of Theological Studies 2016

Chapters

in The Old English Gloss to the Lindisfarne Gospels, ed. Julia Fernández Cuesta and Sara M. Pons-Sanz, Buchreihe der Anglia, 50 (Berlin/Boston: de Gruyter, 2016), pp. 37–59

 ed. Mary Kane and Jane Roberts (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2016)

Research aids

Chapters

in 'Language, culture, and society in Russian/English studies': the proceedings of the fifth conference, 5−6 August 2014, ed. Emma Volodarskaya and Jane Roberts [London, 2015], pp. 282−302

Articles

In Aspects of Anglo-Saxon and Medieval England, ed. M. Ogura (Frankfurt am Main: Peter Lang, 2014), pp. 31-48.

Edited Book

 ‘Christ III’ , ‘Cynewulf’, ‘Guthlac, St’, updated entries in The Wiley Blackwell Encyclopedia of Anglo-Saxon England, 2nd ed., ed. Michael Lapidge, John Blair, Simon Keynes, and Donald Scragg (Chichester: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2014), pp. 107-108, 136-37, 227-28.

 ‘Guthlac of Crowland: Celebrating 1300 Years’ in Networks and Neighbours 2.3 (2014), 431-40:
2014 conference report; pdf at http://networksandneighbours.org/index.php/n

Journal articles

Edited Book

Edited with Emma Volodarskaya

(Publications of the Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon studies, 11) Cambridge, Brewer (D. S.) 2012, XXII-94 pp., 6 ill for Speculum 88.4 (Oct 2013), 1165-66 

Edited Book

 ‘Proliferating script classifications’, in Ex Philologia Lux: Essays in Honour of Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, edited by Jukka Tyrkkö, Olga Timofeeva and Maria Salenius, Mémoires de la Société Néophilologique de Helsinki, Tome XC (Helsinki: Société Néophilologique, 2013), pp. 45–56

Papers

‘Animals and hunting in La3amon’s Brut’, in Studies in Modern English: The Thirtieth Anniversary Publication of the Modern English Association, ed. Ken Nakagawa (Tokyo: Eihosha, 2013), 3-19

Review

M. B. Parkes, Pages from the Past: Medieval Writing Skills and Manuscript Books, ed. P. R. Robinson and Rivkah Zim (Farnham, Surrey, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate Variorum, 2012), Journal of the Early Book Society 15 (2012), 387-91

Edited Book

 IV International Conference ‘Language, Culture, and Society in Russian / English Studies’ 22–23 July, 2013 The Proceedings, ed. Jane Roberts and Emma Volodarskaya (London, [2014]), 236 pp. [most editorial work and wrote ‘Introduction’ pp. 6-11]

Edited Book

Reading La3amon's Brut: Approaches and Explorations. Eds. Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg. DQR Studies in Literature 52 (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2013). Pp. XIII, 768.

Articles

In Reading La3amon's Brut (2013), pp. 443-469.

Articles

Articles

Review

Edited Book

The Third Conference ‘Language, Culture, and Society in Russian / English Studies’ 9–10 July 2012 The Proceedings, ed. Jane Roberts and Emma Volodarskaya (London, [2013]), 236 pp. [most editorial work and wrote ‘Introduction’ pp. 5-12]

Conference papers

Review

Review

Chapters

in Saints and Scholars. New Perspectives on Anglo-Saxon Literature and Culture in Honour of Hugh Magennis, ed. Stuart McWilliams (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2012), pp. 75-86

Edited Book

 NB: Editorial work on this volume and Introduction, pp. 5-13

Edited Book

 NB: Editorial work on this volume and Introduction, pp 5-13

Review

in Library & Information History 28.3 (2012), 240-42.

Review

in Anglia 130.2 (2012), 293-97

Articles

in Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the British Academy, XI [2012], 420-45

Review

in Library & Information History 28.3 (2012), 240-42

Anglia 130.2 (2012), 293-97

Edited Book

Edited Book

Medium Ævum 80.2 (2011), 247-70

Edited Book

International Conference ‘Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies. Senate House, University of London 20-21 July, 2010 (2011), p. 83–96

Articles

International Conference ‘Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies. Senate House, University of London 20-21 July, 2010 (2011), p. 83–96

Articles

St Hugh’s Chronicle 2009–2010, Number 83, 53–55

Articles

Medieval Chronicle VII, ed. Juliana Dresvina and N. A. Sparks and (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2011), pp. 115–35

Review

for Speculum 253-55

Review

Edited Book

International Conference ‘Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies. Senate House, University of London 20-21 July, 2010 (2011), p. 83–96

Edited Book

edited by Jane Roberts and Leslie Webster (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies) [2011]

Chapters

Palimpsests and the Literary Imagination of Medieval England, ed. Leo Carruthers, Raeleen Chai-Elsholz and Tatjana Silec (Palgrave) [2011], pp. 78–99

Articles

Florilegium [2011]

Ed. Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson (Farnham, Surrey: Ashgate, 2010)

in Lambeth Palace Library; treasures from the collections of the Archbishops of Canterbury, ed. Richard Palmer (London: Scala Publishers Ltd, 2010), pp. 34–35

Research aids

Chapters

Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach, edited by Virginia Blanton and Helene Scheck (Tempe: MRTS, 2008) pp. 119-37

Articles

Notes and Queries (June 2008), 122-24.

Chapters

Text, Language and Interpretation: Essays in Honour of Keiko Ikegami , ed. by Yoshiyuki Nakao, Shoko Ono, Naoko Shirai, Kaoru Noji and Masahiko Kanno (Tokyo: The Eihosa Ltd, 2007), 5-18

Articles

People and Texts: Relationships in Medieval Literature: Studies presented to Erik Kooper , edited by Thea Summerfield and Keith Busby, Costerus New Series 166 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), 161-74

Edited Book

Lambeth Palace Library and its Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, exhibition mounted for the biennial conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 3 August 2007, ed. by David Ganz and Jane Roberts with Richard Palmer (London, Taderon Press, 2007).

With A. Minnis (eds.) Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 18 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007).

Chapters

'Guthlac of Crowland and the Seals of the Cross', in The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by Catherine E. Karkov, Sarah Larratt Keefer and Karen Louise Jolly, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (Cambridge: The Boydell Press, 2006), 113-28.

Chapters

Scribes and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England ', ed. Alexander Rumble, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2006), 28-43

Chapters

The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics in Honour of Christian J. Kay , edited by Graham D. Caie, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon, Costerus New Series 163 (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2006), 131-57

Essays for Joyce Hill on her Sixtieth Birthday , edited by Mary Swan, special issue of Leeds Studies in English New Series 37 (2006), 365-78.

Articles

Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society 23 (2005), 16-22.

Chapters

Medieval English Language Scholarship. Autobiographies by Representative Scholars in Our Discipline , ed. by Akio Oizumi and Tadao Kubouchi (Hildesheim, Züric, New York : Georg Olms Verlag, 2005), 159-75.

Monographs

Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500. (London: British Library Publishing. 2005).

NB: Published by Liverpool University Press, 2015

Research aids

A Thesaurus of Old English (Flora Edmonds, Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Irené Wotherspoon) can now (2005) be accessed on-line.

Review

Review of The Christian Tradition in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. Paul Cavill (Cambridge, 2004) for Journal of Theology

Review

Review of Goscelin of Saint-Bertin. The Hagiography of the Female Saints of Ely, ed. and transl. Rosalind C Love (Oxford, 2004) for Medium AEvum

Articles

Poetica 62 (2004), 53-68 (with Christian Kay).

Articles

ANQ 17. 1 (2004), 6-9.

Articles

Poetica 62 (2004), 53-68 (with Christian Kay).

Chapters

Unlocking the Wordhoard: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr, ed. by Mark C. Amodio and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2003), 240-51.

Review

Review of Earl R. Anderson, Folk-Taxonomies in Early English (Madison Teaneck and London: 2003) for Journal of English and Germanic Studies.

Edited Book

La3amon: Contexts, Language, and Interpretation (with R.S. Allen and Lucy Perry) London: King's College London Medieval Studies, XIX, 2002.

Articles

Early Medieval English: Texts and Interpretations, Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg, ed. by Elaine Treharne and Susan Rosser (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002), 201-9.

Chapters

With Louise Sylvester, in A Changing World of Words. Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics , ed. by Javier E. Díaz Vera (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2002), 136-59.

Articles

Journal of Philology No. 2 (11) (2002), 48-54

Articles

Dictionaries 23 (2002), 180-207

Articles

American Notes and Queries (2002), 17-22

Articles

The Grove. Studies on Medieval English Language and Literature 8 (2001), 121-44

Chapters

Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe , ed. by Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 2001), 69-86.

Edited Book

Anglo-Saxons and the North. Essays Reflecting the Theme of the 10th Meeting of the Internatinal Society of Anglo-Saxonists in Helsinki, August, 2001 , ed. by Matti Kilpio, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Jane Roberts and Olga Timofeeva

Edited Book

Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy (Jane Roberts and Janet L. Nelson) London: King's College London Medieval Studies, XVII, 2000.

Roberts, Jane and Christian Kay with Lynne Grundy. 1995. Second edition, 2000. Amsterdam: Rodopi.

Roberts and Nelson (2000), 435-54

Chapters

Old English Prose Basic Readings , ed. by Paul E. Szarmach (New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000), 433-61.

Chapters

Placing Middle English in Context, ed. Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta and Matti Rissanen, The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter (2000), 235-55.

Chapters

Nobles and Nobility, ed. by Anne J. Duggan (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000), 69-84.

Chapters

New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: a Festschrift for Ronald Waldron , ed. Susan Powell & Jeremy J. Smith, Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000), 75-85.

Papers

Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography in English Historical Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Fourth G.L. Brook Symposium, ed. by Julie Coleman & C.J. Kay, Amsterday: Benjamins 2000), 234-35.

Monographs

Middle English Word Studies: A Word and Author Index (with Louise Sylvester) (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000)

Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 15 (2000), 1-25

Articles

Studies in Modern English 16 (2000), 1-23

Research aids

Papers

Text and Gloss. Studies in Insular Learning and Literature Presented to Joseph Donovan Pheifer , ed. Helen Conrad O'Briain, Anne Marie D'Arcy & John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999), 59-65

Articles

Quaderni di Libri e Riviste d'Italia 35 (1998), 9-38

Articles

Medieval English Studies Newsletter 39 (1998), 8-21

Articles

NOWELE 33 (1998), 133-53 [1994 informal paper updated]

Chapters

Names, Places and People. An Onomastic Miscellany in Memory of John McNeal Dodgson , ed. A. R. Rumble & A. D. Mills (Paul Watkins, Stamford: 1997), 96-110 (with Lynne Grundy)

Chapters

Alfred the Wise ed. Roberts, Nelson and Godden (D.S.Brewer, Cambridge 1997), 155-78

Papers

Dictionaries of Medieval Germanic Languages. A Survey of Current Lexicographical Projects , ed. K. H. van Dalen-Oskam, K. A. C. Depuydt, W. J. J. Pijnenburg and T. H. Schoonheim (1997), 31-40 (with C. Kay)

Papers

Dictionaries of Medieval Germanic Languages. A Survey of Current Lexicographical Projects , ed. K. H. van Dalen-Oskam, K. A. C. Depuydt, W. J. J. Pijnenburg and T. H. Schoonheim (1997), 41-45 (with L. Sylvester)

Edited Book

Alfred the Wise (with Janet L. Nelson) Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, 1997.

Chapters

Middle English Miscellany , ed. by J. Fisiak (Motivax, Poznan 1996), 107-22.

Articles

Anglistik 6:2 (1995) 64-74 (with Q. S. Tong)

Chapters

From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English: Studies presented to E.G.Stanley , ed. Malcolm Godden, Douglas Gray, Terry Hoad (Clarendon Press Oxford, 1994), 33-59

Chapters

Françoise Le Saux (ed.) Text & Tradition of Layamon's 'Brut' (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), 1-14.

Chapters

Corpora across the Centuries. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora. Ed. by M.Kytö, M.Rissanen and S.Wright (1993), pp. 155-61

Edited Book

A Palaeographer's View : the selected writings of Julian Brown (with Janet Bately and Michelle P. Brown) London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1993.

Chapters

The Age of Sutton Hoo, ed. Martin Carver (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1992), pp.185-202

Articles

Irish University Review 22 (1992), 305-18

Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century, ed. Julia Boffey & Janet Cowen, King's College London Medieval Studies, V, 1991, pp. 103-21

Articles

Notes and Queries 235 (1990), 264-65

Articles

Notes and Queries 234 (1989), 299-300 (with D.B. Tyson)

Chapters

Medieval Studies presented to George Kane ed. E.D. Kennedy, R.A. Waldron and J.S. Wittig (1988), 1-18

Chapters

Studies in Earlier Old English Prose , ed. by Paul Szarmach (1986), 363-79

Articles

Sources and Relations: Studies in Honour of J.E.Cross , Leeds Studies in English NS 16 (1985), 208-19

Articles

Problems of Old English Lexicography: Studies in Memory of Angus Cameron , Eichstätter Beiträge 15 (1985), 229-43

Articles

Notes and Queries 226 (1982), 106

Articles

nottingham linguistic circular 11 (1982), 20-28

Articles

nottingham linguistic circular 11 (1982), 20-28

Articles

English Studies 61 (1980), 282-92

Monographs

The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979

Articles

Medium Ævum 46 (1977), 16-19

Articles

Medium Ævum 42 (1973), 43-46

Articles

Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 71.C.4 (1971), 91-137

Articles

English Studies 51 (1970), 30-47

Articles

Mediaeval Studies 32 (1970), 193-233

Articles

The Downside Review 86 (1968), 56-67

Articles

Review of English Studies , n.s . 18 (1967), 40-45

Articles

Notes and Queries 212 (1967), 204-5

Articles

Medium Ævum 32 (1963), 99-116

Brut in New Troy 2021: An Online Conference · 25–28 June 2021 (Notre Dame and QMUL)

Ease Virtual Workshop (University of Leiden) at ICHEL

CLASP conference & training day on Anglo-Saxon Metre and Literary Studies, University of Oxford

International Association of University Professors of English, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan

 2015 Harlaxton Symposium - 'Saints and their Cults in the Middle Ages'

 Lambeth Palace, IES-Keio Joint International Conference: Old and Middle English Studies; Texts and Sources

 Language, Culture and Society in Russian/English Studies, University of London, School of Advanced Studies

 10 April 2014 ‘Introduction: Saint Guthlac, his legend and Crowland Abbey’, at Guthlac of Crowland: A Celebration of 1300 Years, 10-11 April, IES/IHR conference organized with Alan Thacker, in IES.

 28 March 2014 ‘c’, 28 March 2014 ‘Reading and mapping: metaphor soup’, at Mapping Metaphor Colloquium, 28-29 March, University Of Glasgow.at Mapping Metaphor Colloquium, 28-29 March, University Of Glasgow.

 26-29 September attended the Seventh International Scientific Conference « Language, Culture and Society », Moscow RAS ; gave paper in plenary session 26th September ‘Some Anglo-Saxon Psalters and their Glosses’; also chaired an afternoon session ; and read paper for Dr Mary Coghill, who was unfortunately unable to attend.

16 September attended 2013 DigiPal Symposium at King’s College London: co-chaired final round table discussion with Marc Smith (École Nationale des Chartes)

Co-organiser. Institute of English Studies, Senate House, London (22-23 July 2013)

Organised and chaired two sessions on Old English Language and Literature. Tsinghua University, Beijing (15-20 July 2013)

Medieval Symposium, Beijing Foreign Studies University (12-15 July, 2013)

Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Trinity College Dublin

University College London, 'Stasis in the Medieval World' (13-14 April, 2013)

18 April, at Lindisfarne Gospels Gloss conference at University of Westminster

20 June, at LOMERS Exeter Book conference, Senate House, UL

Fursey Occasional Paper Number 3 (East Harling, Norfolk: Fursey Pilgrims, 2009)

The Kemble Lectures on Anglo-Saxon Studies 2005-2008 , ed. Alice Jorgensen, Helen Conrad O'Briain and John Scattergood (Dublin : School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, 2009), 12-44

26 March, at CEMA (Sorbonne) conference colloque in honour of Professor André Crépin

'Proliferating Classifications', SELIM conference (Seville, October 2004)

Seminar in Honour of Professor Ian Kirby, (Lausanne, March 2004)

Second International Conference on Historical Lexicography and Lexicology (ICHLL-2), UNiversity of Milan (June 2004)

London: King's College, 1999

'Getting a Sharper Focus: words and meaning in Lahamon's Brut', Lahamon Conference (Brown University)