Daniel Sawyer

The full Call For Papers can be accessed at the following link: https://shorturl.at/RiviU

Call For Papers: Teaching With Ovid.

Any aspect of teaching Ovid in the classroom, for a 2-day symposium on 12-13 June 2026.
Classicist teaching Ovid? Medievalist teaching the Ovide moralise? Librarian/archivist with historic copies of Ovid to share? Take a look: shorturl.at/RiviU

Deadline 16 Jan.

I don't know how close reading feels to other people, but my favourite parts often involve realisations along these lines: 'Oh, this bit *also* holds some interest from these two other angles…'

Poking through a chunk that [poem title redacted] formally highlights in several ways, I find it's also the first known use of a significant word. Which is satisfying.

MLGB is back!! Delighted that Medieval Libraries of Great Britain @bodleian.ox.ac.uk is now back online. We are also working had on plans for the next phase of the resource, enhancing & adding data & functionality. HUGE thanks to my colleagues for their hard & clever work mlgb.bodleian.ox.ac.uk

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (circa 1370). Illu...

Those who teach and research Sir Gawain and the Green Knight will be interested in this fantastic research hub concerned with historic and contemporary creative responses to the late medieval poem. They're also looking for contributors, so do get in contact with @michaeledenart.bsky.social! 👇

Job Opportunity at the University of Kent: Postdoctoral Research Associate Are you passionate about early medieval Britain?  Do you have advanced knowledge of Medieval Latin and interested in the analysis of Latin letter-writing?  If yes, then you may be interested in this f...

Interested in letter-writing in early medieval Britain? A three-year postdoc on @francescatinti.bsky.social’s and my project is now available. Apps close on 17th Oct. Let me know if you have any questions and please circulate! 🙂 jobs.kent.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Not one of those, but one of the solid wooden ones that used to line the tables by the windows on the western side of the upper floor.

Happy to see one of the old wooden chairs from the English Faculty Library quietly occupying a corner in Oxford's new Humanities Library.

This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.

🚨🐳We’re putting together a panel on #whales in medieval #literature for #IMC2026! Two papers are already confirmed: Icelandic sagas and English poetry. We’re looking for one more speaker to join us. If your research touches literary traditions too, we would be delighted to hear from you. Please DM.

Really enjoying @danielsawyer.bsky.social’s How To Read Middle English Poetry! I bought a copy to supplement my knowledge of ME (working on only limited romances, I don’t come across lots of the potential forms) and it is doing an amazing job of recolouring poems familiar and new!

That's very kind of you to say, thank you! I'm delighted to hear that the book's proving useful.

A Midnight Treasury of Macabre & Weird Poems, ed Ana Sampson, featuring the poems of (amongst others) Percy Bysshe Shelley and yours truly (!), out in Sept! (Pictured here with the Shelley Memorial at University College, Oxford) 🥀🪾👻🖤

Geoffrey Chaucer | Reaktion Books This is a new account of the life and accomplishments of medieval England’s most famous poet, Geoffrey Chaucer. For over six centuries, Chaucer has epitomized poetic greatness, though in more recent y...

Mary has kindly shared a 20% discount code for her @reaktionbooks.bsky.social biography of Chaucer, Geoffrey Chaucer: Unveiling the Merry Bard, when purchasing direct from the Reaktion Books website! You can find the discount code at the bottom of the blogpost.

Congratulations!

Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile

My book is out! Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile, with Cambridge UP @universitypress.cambridge.org.

I am so grateful to the friends, family, colleagues, librarians and archivists who helped along the way. Nervous and excited to see it in the world!

www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

I wonder if Garner bothers to give the editor for PP but not for Beowulf because he's aware how much more widely witnessed and variable Piers's text is (even just within the-grouping-we-have-called-the-C-version).

Glad to see another generous review of the book, this time in SELIM's journal:
reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SE...

Can attest that this is an excellent teaching book (and useful for those teaching, too!)

If you're someone NOT planning to teach Middle English next year, have you considered buying my book—

If you're someone planning to teach Middle English next year please consider my book, which might be helpful for your students!

Part of clawing my way back towards research: putting in a little bit of work helping the Index of Middle English Prose.

Given the prevalence of recipes, this's expanding my ME vocabulary. Macis! Langdebef! Stale ale, but the 'stale' part is good!

Absolutely delighted that my article on the textual transmission of Aldhelm's Carmen de virginitate is now out in the most recent volume of Mittellateinische Jahrbuch!

Thank you!

After six months ill and writing slowly at best, I'm trying to get back into the saddle with my third book. (I'm not recovered, just starting to learn to live with it.)

An exhibition of medieval manuscripts at Cambridge's @parkerlibcccc.bsky.social! Curated by Timothy Glover (Richard Rolle specialist and current Parker Library Early-Career Research Fellow).
Do pop in/book a tour if you are in Cambridge - July only!

Daisy Black performing Yde and Olive

Daniel Sawyer giving his paper

Rachel Moss leading a workshop

Me with a Guild of Medievalist Makers postcard

A fantastic 2nd day at @themamoconf.bsky.social 🎉 Gorgeous performance of Yde & Olive by @daisyeblack.bsky.social. I really enjoyed @danielsawyer.bsky.social paper- buy his excellent book! Fantastic energising workshop wi @menysnoweballes.bsky.social & I enjoyed repping @guildmedmak.bsky.social

Come to my paper tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon to find out why it has such a curiously uninformative title. I promise a unique answer.

Come and say hi in the Council Room during the breaks! We have examples of our work and also merch! (Postcards & pins!) @guildmedmak.bsky.social

The AND's own transcriptions of 13 unpublished Anglo-Norman texts (including religious narratives, a legal treatise and language manuals) are now also accessible through the Oxford Text Archive. hdl.handle.net/20.500.14106...