Books

The Mermaid’s Tale: A Cultural History of Mermaids. Forthcoming.

Mermaids of the British Isles. Forthcoming.

John Hardyng’s Chronicle: The Second Version (in preparation).

John Hardyng’s Chronicle. Edited from British Library MS Lansdowne 204, volume 2, Middle English Texts Series (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, forthcoming).

John Hardyng’s Chronicle. Edited from British Library MS Lansdowne 204, volume 1, Middle English Texts Series (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications, 2015).

Tales of King Arthur & The Knights of the Round Table (London: Flame Tree Publishing, 2017).

Book Contributions

Feature on mermaid-related records in The Guinness Book of World Records 2024 (forthcoming September 2023). Consultant page.

Introduction to A Depth Most Would Drown In, an art book by photographer Elisa Maenhout (MER: Borgerhoff & Lamberigts, 2021).

‘Polemical History and The Wars of the Roses’, in Medieval Historical Writing: Britain and Ireland, 500-1500, ed. by Jennifer Jahner, Emily Steiner, and Elizabeth Tyler (Cambridge University Press, 2019), pp. 467-82.

‘Staging Chaucer: Mike Poulton and the Royal Shakespeare Company’s Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales‘, in Medieval Afterlives in Contemporary Culture, ed. by Gail Ashton (London: Continuum/Bloomsbury, 2015 (hardback) and 2017 (paperback)).

‘Anglo-Scottish Relations in John Hardyng’s Chronicle’, in ‘The Anglo-Scottish Border and the Shaping of Identity, 1300-1600, ed. by Mark P. Bruce and Katherine H. Terrell (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 69-86.

Entries on ‘Adam of Usk’, ‘Capgrave, John’, ‘Caxton, William’, Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lincolnshire’,  ‘Chronicon Abbatiae Rameseiensis’, ‘Croftis, Thomas’, ‘Gower, John’,  ‘Hardyng, John’, ‘Historie of the Arrival of King Edward IV’, ‘John of Glastonbury’, ‘Knighton, Henry’, ‘Lives of Henry V’, ‘Lydgate, John’, ‘Malverne, John’, ‘New Croniclys’, ‘Robert of Gloucester’, ‘Rous, John’, ‘Short English Metrical Chronicle’, ‘Somer, John’, ‘Thomas Castleford’s Chronicle’, ‘Vale, John’, ‘Warkworth Chronicle’, and ‘Westminster Chronicle’, in Brill Encyclopaedia of the Medieval Chronicle, ed. by R. G. Dunphy (Leiden: Brill, 2010).

‘Genealogy and John Hardyng’s Verse Chronicle’, in Broken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Late-Medieval Britain and France, ed. by Raluca L. Radulescu and Edward Donald Kennedy, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 16 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2008), pp. 259-82.‘

‘Dynasty and Division: The Depiction of King and Kingdom in John Hardyng’s Chronicle’, in The Medieval Chronicle III: Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on the Medieval Chronicle Doorn/Utrecht 12 – 17 July 2002, ed. by Erik Kooper (Rodopi: Amsterdam, 2004), pp. 149-70.

Journal Articles

‘British Library MS Arundel 249, Ricardus Franciscus and The Patronage of Tractatus de Quatour Virtutibus’ (forthcoming).

‘Divining the Past in London, Wellcome Library MS 8004: A Study and Edition of the Historical Notes in a Fifteenth-Century English Compendium’, The Medieval Chronicle XV: Essays in Honour of Erik Kooper (2023), 240-52. Author Accepted Copy here.

‘A Tretis Compiled Out of Diverse Cronicles (1440): A Study and Edition of the Short English Prose Chronicle Extant in London British Library, Additional 34,764’, The Medieval Chronicle XII (2019), 238-77.

‘Chronicling the Fortunes of Kings: John Hardyng’s use of Walton’s Boethius, Chaucer’s Troilus and Criseyde, and Lydgate’s “King Henry VI’s Triumphal Entry into London”’, The Medieval Chronicle VII (2011), 167-203.

‘“Loke well about, ye that lovers be” (IMEV 1944) and a Sixteenth-Century Reader’s Response to John Hardyng’s Account of Joan of Kent’, Poetica, 69 (2008), 17-25.

‘Political Consciousness and the Literary Mind in Late Medieval England: Men “Brought up of Nought” in Vale, Hardyng, Mankind, and Malory,’ Studies in Philology, 105 (2008), 1-29.

‘“A Good Exampell to Avoide Diane”: Reader Responses to John Hardyng’s Chronicle in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries’, Poetica, 63 (2005), 19-35.

‘Adapting to Readeption in 1470-1471: The Scribe as Editor in a Unique Copy of John Hardyng’s Chronicle of England (Garrett MS. 142)’, The Princeton University Library Chronicle, 66:1 (2004), 140-72.

Digital Reference Works

Guinness World Records. Author of sixteen web entries on merfolk records featured in The Guinness Book of World Records 2024, examples include: ‘Most Translated Mermaid Story‘, ‘Most Expensive Fake Mermaid‘, ‘First Mermaid Firework‘, ‘Oldest Depiction of a Merperson‘, ‘Oldest Merperson Movie‘, ‘Largest Merperson Sculpture‘, ‘First Accredited Mermaid Course‘, ‘Most Expensive Painting of a Merperson Sold at Auction‘.

‘Are There Mermaids in the Mersey?’ (2023). Feature for Merseyside Maritime Museum.

‘The Wellcome Histories’, Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle Online (Brill, 2023).

“John Hardyng”, in Oxford Bibliographies in Medieval Studies, ed. Christopher Kleinhenz (New York: Oxford University Press, 2021).

Entries on ‘Adam of Usk’, ‘Capgrave, John’, ‘Caxton, William’, ‘Chronicle of the Rebellion in Lincolnshire’,  ‘Chronicon Abbatiae Rameseiensis’, ‘Croftis, Thomas’, ‘Gower, John’,  ‘Hardyng, John’, ‘Historie of the Arrival of King Edward IV’, ‘John of Glastonbury’, ‘Knighton, Henry’, ‘Lives of Henry V’, ‘Lydgate, John’, ‘Malverne, John’, ‘New Croniclys’, ‘Robert of Gloucester’, ‘Rous, John’, ‘Short English Metrical Chronicle’, ‘Somer, John’, ‘Thomas Castleford’s Chronicle’, ‘Vale, John’, ‘Warkworth Chronicle’, and ‘Westminster Chronicle’, in  Encyclopaedia of the Medieval Chronicle.

‘John Hardyng’, The Literary Encyclopaedia. Published 11 September 2013.

Audio Books (narrated)

The Poems of the Pearl Manuscript in Modern English Prose Translation. Trans. by Malcolm Andrew and Ronald Waldron. Narrated by Sarah L. Peverley and Joshua Lambie. Unabridged Audiobook (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2019).

Instant Expert: 100 of the Best Ideas from New Generation Thinkers. (Penguin and BBC Digital Audio, 2021). Narrated essay on ‘The Real Game of Thrones: Power in Fifteenth-Century England’. Audible.

Audio Books (produced)

The Little Mermaid. Audio Book and Original Soundtrack.

Bisclavret: The Werewolf. Audio Book.

Content Consultant

The Guinness Book of World Records 2024 (2023). Consultant page.

10 Fascinating Facts about Castles by Jessica Cohn (New York: Children’s Press/Scholastic, 2017).

10 Fascinating Facts about Knights by Jessica Cohn (New York: Children’s Press/Scholastic, 2017).

Reviews

‘Dan Embree and M. Teresa Tavormina, eds., The Contemporary English Chronicles of the Wars of the Roses (Medieval Chronicles) Woodbridge, UK: Boydell Press, 2019′, Speculum 97/4 (2022), 1189-90.

Times Higher Education. ‘From Unicorns to Beastly Farts‘. (June 2019). Review of Book of Beasts in print magazine (Issue 2,411) and online.

‘The Virtues of Vice. Apropos of: Charlotte Steenbrugge, Staging Vice. A Study of Dramatic Traditions in Medieval and Sixteenth-Century England and the Low Countries (Amsterdam/New York: Rodopi, 2014)’, Queeste: Journal of Medieval Literature of the Low Countries, 24:1 (Uitgeverij Verloren, Hilversum, 2017).

‘Nicole D. Smith, Sartorial Strategies: Outfitting Aristocrats and Fashioning Conduct in Late Medieval Literature (Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press, 2012)’, Modern Language Review, 109:4 (2014).

‘Meriel Connor, John Stone’s Chronicle. Christ Church Priory, Canterbury, 1417-1472, TEAMS Documents of Practice Series (Medieval Institute Publications: Western Michigan University, 2010)’, The Medieval Review (Medieval Studies Institute and the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University, Bloomington, 2011).

‘Matthew Giancarlo, Parliament and Literature in Late Medieval England (Cambridge University Press: Cambridge, 2007)’, The Medieval Review (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Library, Scholarly Publishing Office, 2009).