CONTACT INFORMATION:
School of English
University of Leeds
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds LS2 9JT
UK
 
 

Office Telephone:	Office Telephone:  +44(0) 113 343 4761
Office Fax:	+44(0) 113 343 4774
Active email:	A.T.P.HALL@LEEDS.AC.UK
Relevant Webpage:	http://www.alarichall.org.uk

SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:

Language-contact in pre-Viking Britain; medieval history of medicine; popular belief. Old English, Old Norse, Middle Welsh

Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:

Articles in preparation include work on the evidence of Bede for communication between different language-groups and work on the rates of place-name change in early medieval Britain. Previous work includes:

Elves in Anglo-Saxon England: Matters of Belief, Health, Gender and Identity, Anglo-Saxon Studies, 8 (Cambridge: Boydell, 2007): preview/search in Google Books at http://books.google.com/books?id=G1V2N0GAkHQC.

'Constructing Anglo-Saxon Sanctity: Tradition, Innovation and Saint Guthlac', in Images of Sanctity: Essays in Honour of Gary Dickson, ed. by Debra Higgs Strickland, Visualising the Middle Ages, 1 (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 207-35: preprint at http://www.alarichall.org.uk/guthlacpreprint.pdf.

'Changing Style and Changing Meaning: Icelandic Historiography and the Medieval Redactions of Heiðreks saga', Scandinavian Studies, 77 (2005), 1-30: available at http://eprints.gla.ac.uk/2889/.

'Gwyr y Gogledd? Some Icelandic Analogues to Branwen Ferch Lyr', Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies, 42 (Winter 2001), 27-50: available at http://www.alarichall.org.uk/cmcsadvert.php.

WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:

Language-contact in pre-Viking Britain

History of the Medieval Book:

Medieval Chronicle Studies:
 

Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:

Angela Smith, ‘The Reign of Æthelstan in Nordic and English tradition’

STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
 

MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:

Undergraduate 

Exploring Medieval Literature
The Medieval Renascence: Chaucer, Langland and the 'Gawain' Poet 
Beowulf 
Shieldmaidens, Matriarchs and Monsters: Women in Medieval Scandinavian Literature

Postgraduate

Inventing the Middle Ages
Texts and the Word: Christian Traditions in Old English Literature
Old and New Beliefs in Medieval Icelandic Literature: From Pagan to Christian 
Vikings, Saxons and Heroic Culture
 

MEDIEVAL COURSES YOU WOULD LIKE TO SEE DEVELOPED: