Additional Information / Informations supplémentaires

Office and Office Hour / Bureau et heure de réception

Research Interests / Recherches

Lucy Perry received her PhD in medieval English from King's College London and has held positions at the University of Lausanne and University College Dublin. She has also taught at the University of Bern. Her research interests are medieval historiography and romance, and Arthurian literature. She is currently engaged in preparing the third and final volume of the edition of La₃amon’s Brut for the Early English Text Society and is working on a monograph on La₃amon’s Brut and the English Verse Chronicle up to 1340. She teaches Old and Middle English language and literature.

Publications

Books and Monographs / Livres et monographies

With Alexander Schwarz ed., Behaving Like Fools: Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts and Early Books, International Medieval Research, 17 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols: 2011).

With Allen R, Roberts J ed., Layamon: Contexts, Language, and Interpretation. 2002.

Edited Journals / Rédaction de périodiques

With Vejdovsky B., Stirling K., Body Politics: Discours corporels & Corps discursifs. Etudes des Lettres, Lausanne, 2001.

Selection of Articles and Essays / Articles et essais

‘La₃amon’, in Encyclopedia of Medieval Dress and Textiles, ed. by Gale Owen-Crocker (Leiden: Brill, forthcoming 2011).

‘Don’t make me laugh! Fooling around in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’, in Behaving Like Fools: Voice, Gesture, and Laughter in Texts, Manuscripts and Early Books, ed. by Lucy Perry and Alexander Schwarz, International Medieval Research, 17 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols: forthcoming 2011), pp..

‘Legendary History and Chronicle: La₃amon’s Brut and the Chronicle Tradition’, in A Companion to Medieval Poetry, ed. by Corinne Saunders, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture (Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), pp. 219-36.

‘Þus heo hit speken: Direct and Indirect Discourse in the Two Versions of La₃amon’s Brut,’ Neophilologus, 92: 3 (2008), 523-543.

"Masculine Excess, Feminine Restraint, and Fatherly Guidance in the Middle Dutch 'Walewein ende Keye'". Arthuriana 17.1 (2007): 42-54. [URL]

"'For[th] ferde [th]as sonde ... [and] seide him [th]eos ibeod': Discours direct et indirect dans le 'Brut' de Lawman." Poppe, E, Schwyter, J (eds.) (In)direct discourse in Medieval Vernaculars. ILSL (2005): 43-55.

"The life of Brian: a loyal retainer and a loving servant." Allen R, Perry L, Roberts J. (eds.) Layamon: Contexts, Language and Interpretation. London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2002: 385-411.

"Origins and Originality: Reading Lawman's 'Brut' and the rejection of British Library MS Cotton Otho C. xiii." Arthuriana 10.2 (2000): 66-84.

"'Nis nawer nan so wis mon [th]at me ne mai biswiken': Treachery in Laamon's Brut." Roberts J, Nelson J. (eds.) Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy. London: King's College London Medieval Studies, 2000: 383-409.

Reviews / Comptes rendus

Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe and Andy Orchard, eds, Latin Learning and English Lore: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, 2 vols (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2005), in Bulletin Codicologique, 61, no. 1 (2007) B 192.

Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead, eds. Writing Religious Women: Female Spiritual and Textual Practices in Late Medieval England (Cardiff: University of Wales Press; Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2000), in Boris Vejdovsky, Lucy Perry and Kirsten Stirling, eds. Body Politics: Discours corporels & Corps discursifs (= Etudes de Lettres, 2001: 4 (Lausanne: 2001), pp. 171-72.

A Report on the Third International Congress on La₃amon’s Brut, St John, New Brunswick, Canada, 23rd - 26th July 1997, SLIN Newsletter, no. 17 (March, 1998), 3-8.