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Dr Daniel Anlezark

Dr Daniel Anlezark

BA Macq MStud Oxon DPhil Oxon
Lecturer
Room N361 John Woolley Building (A20)

+61 2 9351 3828

My research is in the area of Old and Middle English language and literature. I am particularly interested in the literary reception of the Bible and the literature of Classical antiquity by the Anglo-Saxons. My monograph examines the literary reception of the biblical Flood in a range of Anglo-Saxon texts, from Bede's commentaries to the Old English epic poem Beowulf. I am currently editing a group of highly idiosyncratic Old English dialogues found in MS Corpus Christ College 422, involving King Solomon and the pagan God Saturn, which will have an extensive introduction discussing the place of the text in medieval dialogue tradition, and its relationships with Anglo-Saxon homilies and other poetry. I have taught widely across the literature of the Middle Ages, and also have a research interest in alliterative poetry, particularly of the Gawain-poet and Piers Plowman. I am currently developing an ARC Discovery Grant application for a project on Anglo-Saxon schoolbooks, which will study Anglo-Saxon education with a focus on surviving classroom manuscripts. I am happy to supervise research in any of these fields.

Research areas

Current projects

  • The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 422.
  • Anglo-Saxon schoolbooks.

Selected publications

Forthcoming

  • 'The “Story of Joseph” in MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201', in The Power of Words: Anglo-Saxon Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg on His Seventieth Birthday, ed. Hugh Magennis and Jonathan Wilcox (Morgantown, WV: West Virginia University Press, 2006), pp. 61-94
  • 'Grendel and the Book of Wisdom', Notes and Queries, September 2006
  • 'The Classical Tradition of Avernian Places in Old English Literature', Anglo-Saxon England.
  • 'Middle English Poetry', in Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature, contracted for delivery January 2007.
  • The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College MS 422. Scholarly edition, contracted for delivery May 2007.
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Published

  • Water and Fire: The Myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England (Manchester University Press, 2006).
  • 'Connecting the patriarchs: Noah and Abraham in the Old English Exodus', Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 104 (2005), 171-88.
  • 'Three notes on the Old English Meters of Boethius', Notes and Queries, 51 (2004), pp. 1-11.
  • 'The Fall of the Angels in Solomon and Saturn II', Apocryphal Texts and Traditions in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. D. G. Scragg, Manchester Studies in Anglo-Saxon 1 (Cambridge: Brewer, 2003), pp. 121-33.
  • 'Sceaf, Japheth and the Origins of the Anglo-Saxons', Anglo-Saxon England, 31 (2002), pp.13-46.
  • 'An Ideal Couple: Abraham and Sarah in Old English Literature', Medium Ævum, 69 (2000), pp. 187-210.
  • 'The Sources of the Old English Meters of Boethius (Cameron A.6)', 2002, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, http://fontes.english.ox.ac.uk
  • 'The Sources of Exodus (Cameron A.1.2)', 2001 Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, http://fontes.english.ox.ac.uk
  • 'The Sources of The Order of the World (Cameron A.3.14)', 2001, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, http://fontes.english.ox.ac.uk
  • 'The Sources of Pharaoh (Cameron A.3.28)', 2001, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, http://fontes.english.ox.ac.uk
  • 'The Sources of Daniel (Cameron A.1.3)', 1999, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, http://fontes.english.ox.ac.uk
  • 'The Sources of Azarias (Cameron A.3.3)', 1999, Fontes Anglo-Saxonici: World Wide Web Register, http://fontes.english.ox.ac.uk
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