Dr. William Flynn

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor
Institute for Medieval Studies
University of Leeds
Leeds LS2 9JT UK

Office Telephone: +44 113 3433723
Office Fax:
Active email: w.flynn@leeds.ac.uk
Relevant Webpage: www.leeds.ac.uk/ims/


SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Interactions among liturgy, music and theology
Elementary music and grammar instruction up to 1200
Early liturgy of the Paraclete
Hildegard of Bingen


Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Medieval Music as Medieval Exegesis (Lantham MD, 1999).

Forthcoming: ‘Liturgical Music’ in Oxford Illustrated History of Christian Worship

Liturgical re-identification: the case of the Sequence Epitalamica in the early liturgy of the Paraclete’ for the project Sapientia-Eloquentia directed by Gunilla Iversen at the University of Stockholm.


WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
Interactions among music and language pedagogies are integral to much of my research.

History of the Medieval Book:
Interest in, and practical experience in use and description of musical and liturgical mss.

Medieval Chronicle Studies:


Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Melanie Brunner, Pope John XXII and Franciscan Poverty (co-supervised with Ian Wood)
Abbie Gometz, Editing and Analysing The Rule of the Master (co-supervised with Ian Wood)
Aileen Kosdiy (co-supervised with Bridget Morris and Anthony Wright): A case for canonisation: the Liber celestis of St Bridget of Sweden


STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in staff exchanges (with compatible research interests) with WUN partner institutions, and in conducting a videoconferencing seminar or course (if interests and needs coincide).


MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
MEDV5010 Medieval Latin
MEDV 5020 Advanced Medieval Latin
MEDV5280 The Bible in the Medieval World

I also co-ordinate and teach an undergraduate module MEDV1080 Religion and Culture in the Western Middle Ages and teach a small segment of MEDV5110 Research Methods and Bibliography


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