Dr  Daron Burrows - Research

My research focusses on medieval French and Anglo-Norman language and literature, and combines modern theory and traditional philology. My main publications include the books The Stereotype of the Priest in the Old French Fabliaux: Anticlerical Satire and Lay Identity and Two Old French Satires on the Power of the Keys: 'L'Escommeniement au lecheor' and 'Le Pardon de foutre', and my 3-volume critical edition of the Vie de seint Clement, which was awarded the Prix De La Grange for 2011 from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

I am also keen to ensure that my specialist research is accessible to a wider public, a concern for impact exemplified by my contributions of editions with translations to two interdisciplinary commentary volumes accompanying facsimiles of the Yates Thompson 10 Apocalypse and the Corpus Apocalypse, and by my translation of the Life of Pope St Clement.

Principal interests:

• Texts: comic and satirical literature (fabliaux and dits); hagiography and apocrypha; Apocalypse translations and commentaries; Anglo-Norman literature in general
• Themes: anticlericalism and the development of lay identity; stereotyping; subversion; obscenity; gender construction; didacticism and popular religious instruction; translation and reception; theory and practice of critical edition
• Approaches: socio-psychological and socio-anthropological analysis; computer-based critical editing and codicological analysis

I am delighted to receive enquiries from research students seeking supervision in all areas of medieval French and Anglo-Norman language and literature, in particular those coinciding with my research interests. Projects involving interactions with other Romance languages, Middle High German, and Middle English are very welcome.

Work in progress

• Invited chapter: ‘Vers une nouvelle édition de l’Apocalypse en prose’, for a volume of Anglo-Norman studies, ed. O. Floquet (Paris: Garnier)
• Invited chapter: ‘Le français dans l’histoire: des origines au 16e siècle’, Manuel de linguistique française, ed. C. Polzin-Haumann and W. Schweickard (Berlin: De Gruyter)
• Article: 'The Anglo-Norman Coronation Order of Edward II'
• Article: ‘Une vie inédite de saint Pierre: Cambridge, St John’s, MS B.9’
• Book: In collaboration with Keith Busby (Wisconsin-Madison), completion of an edition of the Yvain of Chrétien de Troyes
• As part of a pan-European team, a new 5-volume critical edition of the Ovide moralisé, a fourteenth-century text of 72,000 lines

Future projects

• A major online resource building on Ruth Dean and Maureen Boulton's classic Anglo-Norman Literature: a Guide to Texts and Manuscripts
• Edition and study of the transmission of the Anglo-Norman Prose Apocalypse with non-Berengaudus commentary
• Edition and study of the Anglo-Norman prose commentary in the Abingdon Apocalypse (MS BL Add. 42555)
• Critical edition and translation of Yde et Olive, an epic text famous for its portrayal of incest, cross-dressing, and same-sex marriage
• Critical edition of the prose Légendier lorrain

• Hon. Secretary and Treasurer of the Anglo-Norman Text Society
• Member of the Peer Review College of the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), as Academic Reviewer and Technical Reviewer (2010-14)
• Member of the scientific committee for the Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
• Member of the editorial board for the series Textes vernaculaires du Moyen Age (Brepols)
• Grant reviewer for the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC), Leverhulme Trust, and Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada(SSHRC)
• External consultant for the Middle High German Parzival Project
• Referee for the journals Florilegium, Medium Aevum, Mediaeval Studies, Modern Language Review, The Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, and Revue romane, and for the series Westfield Medieval Studies and Medium Aevum Monographs
• Member of the Anglo-Norman Text Society, Society for French Studies, Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature, Société de Linguistique Romane, and International Reynard Society
• Reviewer (30+ reviews) for journals including French Studies, Journal of French Language Studies, Medium Aevum, Modern Language Review, Revue des langues romanes, Romania, and Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
• Invited speaker at universities including Oxford, Cambridge, the Sorbonne, Goettingen, Bristol, and Poitiers

• Book: The Life of Saint Clement, to appear in 2013 for the French of England Translation Series (FRETS), which is part of the Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies published by the Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• 'Albert Stimming and Anglo-Norman studies', in Bartsch, Foerster et Cie: la première romanistique allemande et son influence en Europe, ed. R. Trachsler (Paris: Garnier, 2013)
• 'Vers la fin croistra la religion: the end of the world according to the Medieval French Prose Apocalypse', in Visions of Apocalypse, ed. A. Stuart and L. Archer (Oxford/Bern: Peter Lang, 2013)
• Article: 'La réception médiévale des Pseudo-Clémentines en Angleterre: le cas de la Vie de seint Clement', to appear in Brepols volume ed. by J.-P. Pouzet and Tony Hunt (2013)
• Note: 'Medieval French manuscripts in the John Rylands Library', to appear in Scala volume in 'Great Libraries of the World' series (2013)

• 2011: Prix de La Grange, from the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, for 3-volume edition of Vie de seint Clement
• 2008: AHRC Research Leave scheme
• 2008: MHRA Publications Fund
• 2007: British Academy Small Grant (Neil Ker Memorial Fund)
• 2007: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
• 2005: British Academy Small Grant
• 2005: British Academy Overseas Conference Grant
• 1998: Senior Paget-Toynbee Prize, University of Oxford
• 1998: Laming Fellowship, Queen's College, University of Oxford (declined in favour of lectureship at Manchester)
• 1996-8: Graduate Scholarship, Trinity College, Oxford
• 1995-8: British Academy postgraduate funding award, competitions A and B
• 1995: Frank Knox Memorial Prize, Trinity College, Oxford
• 1995: Junior Paget-Toynbee Prize, University of Oxford