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Professor Eddie Jones

Professor

E.Jones@exeter.ac.uk

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01392 724272

Overview

I am a Professor of English Medieval Literature and Culture in the Department of English.

I teach medieval English literature, and research into late-medieval religious culture, including manuscripts and the history of the book. I am especally interested in some of the more peculiar expressions of medieval religion, including hermits and anchorites, their forms of living and the books they read.

My office is Queen's Building 207. I keep office hours on Tuesdays and Thursdays - you can book a slot here - or you are welcome to email me for an appointment, or to knock on my door if you are passing.

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Research

  • Middle English
  • Middle English religious writing
  • hermits and anchorites
  • medieval religious history
  • manuscripts and early printed books

My research interests could be summed up as medieval English religious culture. I am interested in the devotional and contemplative literature of the late Middle Ages: the works of the 'Fourteenth Century English Mystics' and their reappearance and reworking in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. I also work on what I term the 'non-regular vocations' of medieval England: vowesses, followers of the 'mixed life', and especially hermits and anchorites. I am interested in the vocations' material history as well as the history of their representation, and also in texts written by, about and for them. I have also published on Syon Abbey, and am currently preparing a selection of the essays of the late A I Doyle for publication.

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Supervision

I am happy to talk to anyone who is considering postgraduate work in medieval English literature and culture. My particular expertise is in the religious literature and history of the late Middle Ages, and editorial and manuscript work. Current PhD students are working on editions of Middle English texts, saints' lives, prayers, and 16th-century nuns.

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Publications

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| To Appear | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005 | 2004 | 2002 |

To Appear

  • Jones EA. Hermits & Anchorites of England.

2019

  • . (2019) Introduction, Manchester University Press, DOI:10.7765/9781526127228.00004. [PDF]
  • . (2019) Introduction, Manchester University Press, DOI:10.7765/9781526127228.00004. [PDF]

2018

  • Jones EA. (2018) Noting the notae in Jesus College, Oxford, MS 39’, 'Booldly bot meekly': Essays on the Theory and Practice of Translation in the Middle Ages in Honour of Roger Ellis, Brepols, 245-264.
  • Jones EA. (2018) Hermits and Anchorites in England, 1200-1550, Manchester University Press.
  • Jones EA. (2018) Hermits and Anchorites in England, 1200-1550, Manchester University Press.

2017

  • Jones EA. (2017) Syon at 500: Quincentenary celebrations at Syon Abbey, Chudleigh, in 1920, Continuity and Change, 389-409.
  • Andersson E, Gejrot C, Jones EA, Akestam M. (2017) Continuity and Change: Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Dartington 2015.
  • Andersson E, Gejrot C, Jones EA, Akestam M. (2017) Continuity and Change: Papers from the Birgitta Conference at Dartington 2015.
  • Jones EA. (2017) 'O Sely Ankir!', Medieval Anchorites in their Communities, D.S.Brewer; Boydell & Brewer, 13-34.

2015

  • Jones EA. (2015) England’s Last Medieval Monastery: Syon Abbey 1415-2015, Gracewing.

2014

2013

  • Jones EA. (2013) The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England Exeter Symposium VIII : Papers Read at Charney Manor, July 2011, DS Brewer.
  • Jones EA. (2013) Speculum Inclusorum / A Mirror for Recluses A Late-Medieval Guide for Anchorites and its Middle English Translation, Liverpool University Press.
  • Jones EA. (2013) Speculum Inclusorum / A Mirror for Recluses A Late-Medieval Guide for Anchorites and its Middle English Translation, Liverpool University Press.

2010

  • Jones EA. (2010) Julian of Norwich. The influence of late-medieval devotional compilations, JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY, volume 61, no. 2, pages 378-379, DOI:10.1017/S0022046909993034. [PDF]
  • Jones EA, Walsham A. (2010) Syon Abbey and its Books, The Boydell Press.
  • Jones EA, Walsham A. (2010) ‘Syon Abbey and its Books: Origins, Influences and Transitions’, Syon Abbey and its Books, The Boydell Press, 1-38.

2009

  • Ashcroft MY, Jones EA. (2009) Monastic charters and other documents relating to mediaeval piety in the North Yorkshire County Record Office, North Yorkshire County Council.
  • Jones EA. (2009) ‘Vae Soli! Solitaries and Pastoral Care’, Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care, York Medieval Press, 11-28.
  • Jones EA. (2009) A source for the anonymous 'Kings of England', Notes and Queries, volume 56, no. 2, pages 194-197, DOI:10.1093/notesj/gjp029.
  • Jones EA. (2009) Brantley, Jessica, Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in LateMedieval England, Catholic Historical Review, volume 95, pages 140-141.
  • Jones EA. (2009) Reading in the Wilderness: Private Devotion and Public Performance in Late Medieval England, CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW, volume 95, no. 1, pages 140-141. [PDF]

2008

  • Jones EA. (2008) Ceremonies of Enclosure: Rite, Rhetoric and Reality, Rhetoric of the Anchorhold, University of Wales Press, 34-49.
  • Jones EA. (2008) A Mystic by Any other Name: Julian(?) of Norwich, Mystics Quarterly, volume 33/3-4, pages 1-17.
  • Jones EA. (2008) ‘Anchoritic Aspects of Julian of Norwich’, A Companion to Julian of Norwich, Boydell & Brewer, 75-87.

2007

  • Jones EA. (2007) Literature of Religious Instruction, A Companion to Medieval English Literature and Culture c. 1350-c.1500, Blackwell, 406-422.
  • Jones EA. (2007) Marking the hours: English people & their prayers, 1240-1570, JOURNAL OF CHURCH AND STATE, volume 49, no. 3, pages 570-571, DOI:10.1093/jcs/49.3.570. [PDF]

2006

  • Jones EA. (2006) The 'Exhortacion' from Disce Mori, Simon Winter.

2005

  • Jones EA. (2005) Christina of Markyate and The Hermits and Anchorites of England, Christina of Markyate: a twelfth-century holy woman, Routledge, 229-253.
  • Jones EA. (2005) The Compilations(s) of Two Late-Medieval Devotional Manuscripts, Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson , Brepols, 79-97.

2004

  • Jones, E.. (2004) The Medieval Mystical Tradition in England, vol VII, Brewer.

2002

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More information

I am the organiser of the Exeter Symposia on the Medieval Mystical Tradition, and edit their proceedings.

I am on the Editorial board for the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures.

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