Jayne Carroll

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Expertise Summary

BA (UCL), MA (KCL) PhD (Nottingham) Areas of expertise - Medieval language and literature; history of English and English place-names.

Teaching Summary

I teach on the core medieval modules, Beginnings of English and Medieval Englishes, and offer the third-year options English Place-Names, and Names and Identities, a module on the development of… read more

Research Summary

For the past few years my research has focused upon the representation of English place-names on Anglo-Saxon coins. The first part of a three-volume study, co-authored with David N. Parsons, appeared… read more

Selected Publications

• CARROLL. J, 2012. Þórðr Kolbeinsson -- Eiríksdrápa. In: D. C. WHALEY, ed., Poetry from the Kings' Sagas I: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Brepols. (In Press.)
• CARROLL, J., 2009. Markús Skeggjason -- Eiríksdrápa. In: GADE, K. E., ed., Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 2: From c.1035 to c.1300 Part 1. Turnhout: Brepols. 432-460
• CARROLL, J., 2010. Coins and the Chronicle: mint-signatures, history, and language. In: JORGENSON, A., ed., Reading The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Literature, History, Language Turnhout, Brepols. 243-273 (In Press.)

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I teach on the core medieval modules, Beginnings of English and Medieval Englishes, and offer the third-year options English Place-Names, and Names and Identities, a module on the development of surnames in England after the Norman Conquest. I also teach The Study of Place-Names to MA students and supervise research students on a range of topics including place- and personal names, Old English language and literature, and the History of English.

Current Research

For the past few years my research has focused upon the representation of English place-names on Anglo-Saxon coins. The first part of a three-volume study, co-authored with David N. Parsons, appeared in 2007. I continue to research and publish on Old English and Old Norse poetry, the subjects of my doctoral thesis. I have contributed to the Skaldic Poetry of the Scandinavian Middle Ages project, as editor of Markús Skeggjason's verse (in vol. 2, published in 2009) and of Þórðr Kolbeinsson's Eiríksdrápa (vol. 1, forthcoming; see http://skaldic.arts.usyd.edu/ for more details). My recent work on Old English heroic verse has appeared in the Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English (2010).

I am one of the four founder members of the AHRC-funded Viking Identities Network (www.nottingham.ac.uk/english/csva/vin/). I am co-investigator on the Leverhulme-funded project, Landscapes of Governance: Assembly Sites in England, 5th-11th centuries (www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/project/assembly). I am a member of the project team for Roots of the British, an interdisciplinary project involving archaeologists, historicians, linguists, and geneticists based at Leicester (www2.le.ac.uk/projects/roots-of-the-british). The team, led by Dr Jo Story, was recently awarded a Leverhulme Programme Grant of £1.37 million for the project, 'The Impact of Diasporas on the Making of Britain: Evidence, Memories, Inventions'. I am one of several members of a JISC-funded project to digitise the Survey of English Place-Names; colleagues from King's College London, Queen's University Belfast, and the University of Edinburgh are collaborating in this venture.

Past Research

My doctoral thesis, 'Poetic Discourse in Viking Age England', examined verse produced in English in the tenth and eleventh centuries in Old English, Old Norse, and Latin. Work from this thesis has appeared in the Review of English Studies and as chapters in edited volumes.

• CARROLL. J, 2012. Þórðr Kolbeinsson -- Eiríksdrápa. In: D. C. WHALEY, ed., Poetry from the Kings' Sagas I: From Mythical Times to c. 1035. Brepols. (In Press.)
• J. CARROLL, 2012. Changing names, changing functions?. In: R. JONES and S. SEMPLE, eds., A Sense of Place in Anglo-Saxon England Shaun Tyas. 168-179
• CARROLL, J., 2010. The Verse of Heroes. In: TREHARNE, E and WALKER, G., eds., The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Literature in English Oxford: Oxford University Press. 133-159
• CARROLL, J., 2010. Coins and the Chronicle: mint-signatures, history, and language. In: JORGENSON, A., ed., Reading The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: Literature, History, Language Turnhout, Brepols. 243-273 (In Press.)
• CARROLL, J., 2009. Markús Skeggjason -- Eiríksdrápa. In: GADE, K. E., ed., Poetry from the Kings' Sagas 2: From c.1035 to c.1300 Part 1. Turnhout: Brepols. 432-460
• CARROLL, J. and PARSONS, D.N., 2007. Anglo-Saxon Mint-Names Nottingham: English Place-Name Society.
• CARROLL, J., 2007. Concepts of power in Anglo-Scandinavian verse. In: BOLTON, B. and MEEK, C., eds., Aspects of Power and Authority in the Middle Ages Turnhout: Brepols. 217-233
• CARROLL, J., 2007. The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle and the wars with the Danes. In: NORTH, R. and ALLARD, J., eds., Beowulf and other Stories: An Introduction to Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literature London: Longman. 301-350
• CARROLL, J., 2007. Engla waldend, rex admirabilis: Poetic Representations of King Edgar Review of English Studies. 59, 113-132
• CARROLL, J. and LEE, C., 2007. Women in Anglo-Saxon England and the Impact of Christine E. Fell: Introduction Nottingham Medieval Studies. 51, 201-205
• CARROLL, J., 2005. Narrative and Direct Address in Skaldic Verse. In: MORTENSEN, A and ARGE, S., eds., Viking and Norse in the North Atlantic Tórshavn: Føroya Fróðskapafelag. 427-440
• CARROLL, J., 2003. Review of Eric Christiansen, The Norsemen in the Viking Age Saga-Book. 27, 114-117
• CARROLL, J., 2001. Review of James Graham-Campbell et al. (eds), The Vikings and the Danelaw Journal of the English Place-Name Society. 34, 59-65
• CARROLL, J., 2000. Words and Weapons: The Battle of Brunanburh Nottingham Linguistic Circular. 15, 35-54