Biography
Starting out as a historian with a particular interest in the Viking-age settlement of the British Isles, my focus has shifted westward and later after being bitten by the palaeography bug during the course of a BA in Viking Studies and MA in Medieval and Renaissance Studies at UCL. I am principally interested in what the identification of scribal hands or schools can tell us about the preservation and transmission of pagan mythological themes in the Christian era: Who was writing pagan poems down? And if we can tell who, does this help us to know why?
Other academic interests
I retain an interest in Viking-age Britain, and especially in the possibilities raised by a carefully interdisciplinary approach to understanding the nature and process(es) of Scandinavian settlement. Within Old Norse palaeography, I am also particularly interested in developing innovative approaches to stemmatics.
