Prof Rhiannon Purdie

Deputy Head of School

Professor of English and Older Scots

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2674

Email

rp6@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 23

Location

Castle House

 

Research areas

My main research interests are in Older Scots literature, later Middle English literature, medieval romance, and textual editing. I am the Editorial Secretary for the Scottish Text Society, for whom I  edited Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances in 2013: I have also produced scholarly editions for TEAMS (Six Scottish Courtly and Chivalric Poems including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum, co-ed. with Emily Wingfield, 2018)  and the Early English Text Society (Ipomadon, 2001). Editing aside, I have published books and articles on Older Scots literature, medieval romance and Chaucer, and was a Fulbright research fellow at the University of Rochester, NY, in 2016. I am the current Chair of the Scottish Medievalists, and a series co-editor for Boydell & Brewer's 'Studies in Medieval Romance'. From 2021-23 I will be a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow, writing a history of medieval Scots literature.

PhD supervision

• Madison Justice
• Samantha Bruce-Benjamin
• Hanna Gruenzel

Selected publications

• Manuscripts and Manuscript Culture

  Purdie, R., 2019, Geoffrey Chaucer in Context. Johnson, I. (ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 43-49 7 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Six Scottish courtly and chivalric poems, including Lyndsay's Squyer Meldrum

  Purdie, R. (ed.) & Wingfield, E. (ed.), Nov 2018, Michigan: Medieval Institute Publications. 290 p. (Middle English texts series)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• King Orphius and Sir Orfeo, Scotland and England, memory and manuscript

  Purdie, R., Sept 2018, The transmission of medieval romance: metres, manuscripts and early prints. Putter, A. & Jefferson, J. A. (eds.). Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, p. 15-32 18 p. (Studies in Medieval Romance; no. 21).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Medieval romance and the generic frictions of Barbour's Bruce

  Purdie, R., Sept 2015, Barbour's Bruce and its cultural context: politics, chivalry and literature in late medieval Scotland. Boardman, S. & Foran, S. (eds.). Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, p. 51-74 24 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Malcolm, Margaret, Macbeth and the Miller: Rhetoric and the Re-shaping of History in Wyntoun's Original Chronicle

  Purdie, R., Dec 2015, In: Medievalia et Humanistica. New Series, 41, p. 45-63 19 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Before the Makars: Older Scots literature under the early Stewart Kings

  Purdie, R., Feb 2014, A Companion to British Literature: Vol. 1: Medieval Literature, 700-1450 . DeMaria, Jr, R., Chang, H. & Zacher, S. (eds.). Blackwell, p. 293 307 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Shorter Scottish Medieval Romances: Florimond of Albany; Sir Colling the Knycht; King Orphius; Roswall and Lillian: Scholarly edition of 'Roswall and Lillian' (parallel-text), 'Sir Colling the Knycht', 'King Orphius' (parallel-text with newly-discovered fragment) and 'Florimond of Albany’. Finished volume has 150 pages of analysis (Introduction, Explanatory Notes, Glossary); 128 pages of edited texts; 12 pages of Index and Bibliography.

  Purdie, R. (ed.), 2013, Edinburgh: Scottish Text Society. 302 p. (Scottish Text Society Fifth Series; no. 11)

  Research output: Book/Report › Scholarly edition

• Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts

  Purdie, R. (ed.) & Cichon, M. (ed.), 2011, Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Anglicising Romance: Tail-Rhyme and Genre in Medieval English Literature

  Purdie, R., 2008, D. S. Brewer. 283 p. (Studies in Medieval Romance)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

 

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