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Associate Professor Daniel Anlezark

Assoc. Prof. Daniel Anlezark

BA Macq. MStud Oxf. DPhil Oxf.
Associate Professor

+61 2 9351 3828
Room N361, John Woolley Building (A20)

I research and teach in the area of Old and Middle English language and literature. I am particularly interested in the literary reception of the Bible and the literature of Classical antiquity by the Anglo-Saxons. I have published on and edited a range of Old English texts. My first book (Water and Fire: The Myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England, 2006) examined the literary reception of the biblical Flood in a range of Anglo-Saxon texts, from Bede's commentaries to the Old English epic poem Beowulf. I have published an edition of The Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn (2009), a group of highly idiosyncratic Old English dialogues found in MSS Corpus Christ College 41 and 422, involving King Solomon and the pagan God Saturn. I discuss the place of the texts in the medieval dialogue tradition, and their relationships with the riddling tradition, Anglo-Saxon homilies, and other poetry. I have edited and translated a group of Old English narrative poems from MS Junius 11 and the Exeter Book, Old Testament Narratives (2011), in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series. I am also interested in the relationship between Old English and Old Norse literature, and edited a volume of essays on Old Norse literature, Myths Legends and Heroes: Essays in Honour of John McKinnell. I teach widely across the literature of the Middle Ages, and welcome research students interested in texts and ideas from across the period.

Research Areas

Current Projects

  • Old English philosophical literature
  • Anglo-Saxon literary patronage

Publications

Books
  • Anlezark, D (ed) 2009, The Old English Dialogues of Solomon and Saturn, D. S. Brewer, United Kingdom
  • Anlezark, D 2006, Water and Fire: The Myth of the Flood in Anglo-Saxon England, Manchester University Press, Manchester
Journal Articles
  • Anlezark, D 2010, Understanding numbers in London, British Library, Harley 3271, Anglo-Saxon England, 38, 137-155
  • Anlezark, D 2007, Poisoned places: the Avernian tradition in Old English poetry, Anglo-Saxon England, 36, 103-126
  • Anlezark, D 2006, Grendel and the Book of Wisdom, Notes and Queries: for readers and writers, collectors and librarians, 53(2), 262-269
  • Anlezark, D 2005, Connecting the Patriarchs: Noah and Abraham in the Old English Exodus, Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 104(2), 171-188
Book Chapters
  • Anlezark, D 2010, Old English biblical and devotional poetry, A Companion to Medieval Poetry, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, West Sussex, UK, 1, 101-124
  • Anlezark, D 2010, Old English epic poetry: Beowulf, A Companion to Medieval Poetry, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, West Sussex, UK, 141-160
  • Anlezark, D 2009, Part II Medieval: Introduction, The Blackwell Companion to the Bible in English Literature, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, West Sussex, United Kingdom, 41-60
  • Anlezark, D 2006, Reading 'The Story of Joseph' in MS Cambridge, Corpus Christi College 201, The Power of Words: Anglo-Saxon Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg on his Seventieth Birthday, West Virginia University Press, Morgantown, WV, USA, 61-94
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