CONTACT INFORMATION:

British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow
Department of Italian
School of Modern Languages and Literatures
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT
 

Office Telephone:	0113 3433589
Office Fax:	0113 3433634
Active email:	r.j.daniels@leeds.ac.uk
Relevant Webpage:	http://www.leeds.ac.uk/italian/staff/rhiannon_daniels.htm

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:

Boccaccio, reception studies, History of the Italian Book (manuscript and print)

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:

Reading and Meaning: The Reception of Boccaccio’s ‘Teseida’, ‘Decameron’, and ‘De mulieribus claris’ to 1520 (forthcoming, Legenda)

Transformations and Transmissions of Medieval and Renaissance Italian Culture, co-edited with Guyda Armstrong, Special Issue of Italian Studies (forthcoming 2009)

"Materiality and Marginalia in Renaissance Editions of the Decameron," in Caro Vitto: Essays in Memory of Vittore Branca, ed. by Jill Kraye and Laura Lepschy, The Italianist, 27. 2 (2007), 86-100

"Controversy, Censorship and Boccaccio’s Life of Pope Joan," Studi sul Boccaccio 34 (2006), 185-98
 

WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:

Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:

History of the Medieval Book:

My research on the medieval reception of Boccaccio is based on codicological evidence and scribal practice c. 1300-1500.

Medieval Chronicle Studies:
 

Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
 

STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:

MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:

Tall Tales: An Introduction to the Italian Short Story (Novellino, Decameron)

From Pen to Press: Making and Reading Books in Italy, c. 1300-1600 (Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio) 
 

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