Daniel Sawyer
@danielsawyer.bsky.social
Lecturer, Birkbeck; Academic Visitor, Oxford.
Buy How to Read Middle English Poetry for £14/$20 using the code AAFLYG6: https://global.oup.com/academic/product/how-to-read-middle-english-poetry-9780198895244
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Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
November 30, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Eleven years ago, I wrote to Tom Stoppard to ask about this coup de théâtre from 1949. It took me down an unexpected rabbit hole - in memory of Stoppard, here's what I found.
Learned recently: Osbern Bokenham tells us he wore glasses (or at least used some kind of reading lens?).
December 2, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Learned recently: Osbern Bokenham tells us he wore glasses (or at least used some kind of reading lens?).
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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.
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.
October 7, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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.
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.
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.
November 5, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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.
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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
October 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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
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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! 👇
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...
www.representing-sir-gawain-and-the-green-knight.com
October 3, 2025 at 9:20 AM
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! 👇
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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...
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...
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September 29, 2025 at 3:18 PM
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...
Happy to see one of the old wooden chairs from the English Faculty Library quietly occupying a corner in Oxford's new Humanities Library.
September 29, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Happy to see one of the old wooden chairs from the English Faculty Library quietly occupying a corner in Oxford's new Humanities Library.
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This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.
August 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
This came out earlier this week! Thank you so much to Yale University Press for all their efforts getting it to publication.
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🚨🐳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.
August 17, 2025 at 5:59 PM
🚨🐳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.
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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!
August 17, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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!
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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) 🥀👻🖤
August 14, 2025 at 11:39 AM
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) 🥀👻🖤
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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.
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...
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August 13, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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.
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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 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...
Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile
Cambridge Core - Classical Literature - Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile
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August 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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 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...
Glad to see another generous review of the book, this time in SELIM's journal:
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View of Sawyer, Daniel. 2024. How to Read Middle English Poetry. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Pp. 240. ISBN 9780198895237.
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August 6, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Glad to see another generous review of the book, this time in SELIM's journal:
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reunido.uniovi.es/index.php/SE...
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Can attest that this is an excellent teaching book (and useful for those teaching, too!)
If you're someone planning to teach Middle English next year please consider my book, which might be helpful for your students!
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August 4, 2025 at 3:04 PM
Can attest that this is an excellent teaching book (and useful for those teaching, too!)
If you're someone planning to teach Middle English next year please consider my book, which might be helpful for your students!
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August 4, 2025 at 2:57 PM
If you're someone planning to teach Middle English next year please consider my book, which might be helpful for your students!
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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!
July 29, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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!
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.)
July 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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.)
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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!
Do pop in/book a tour if you are in Cambridge - July only!
July 4, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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!
Do pop in/book a tour if you are in Cambridge - July only!
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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
June 26, 2025 at 6:19 AM
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.
Looking forward to @themamoconf.bsky.social tomorrow.
June 24, 2025 at 6:18 PM
Come to my paper tomorrow (Wednesday) afternoon to find out why it has such a curiously uninformative title. I promise a unique answer.
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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
June 24, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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
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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...
June 23, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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...
Looking forward to @themamoconf.bsky.social tomorrow.
June 23, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Looking forward to @themamoconf.bsky.social tomorrow.