Dear members, Stephanie Hollis (based at at The University of Auckland) has shared the following news of her research with us, including a brief list of her recent book chapter publications and a note on her current research.

Thanks Stephanie!

Stephanie Hollis – Recent publications

Stephanie Hollis, ‘Secular Learning in Anglo-Saxon England: an Overview’, in Secular Learning in Anglo-Saxon England: Exploring the Vernacular, ed. László Sándor Chardonnens and Bryan Corella (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2012), pp. 1-42. 

Stephanie Hollis, ‘Barking’s Monastic School, Late Seventh to Twelfth Century: History, Saint-Making and Literary Culture’, in Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture: Authorship and Authority in a Female Community, ed. Jennifer N. Brown and Donna Alfano Bussell (Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2012), pp. 33-55.

Stephanie Hollis, ‘The Literary Culture of the Anglo-Saxon Royal Nunneries: Romsey and London, British Library, MS Lansdowne 436’, in Nuns’ Literacies in Medieval Europe: the Hull Dialogue, ed. V. Blanton, V. O’Mara and P. Stoop (Turnhout: Brepols, 2013), pp. 111-20.

Current research

Stephanie is currently working on two related publications, one on texts by Goscelin of Canterbury commissioned by Barking Abbey c. 1086, which will include translations by Michael Wright. The other is a study of seven nunneries from the time of their foundation in the late Anglo-Saxon period until the dissolution (Amesbury, Barking, Nunnaminster, Romsey, Shaftesbury, Wherwell and Wilton), which focuses on the role and representation of the Anglo-Saxon past in their literary and artistic culture.