Professor Jane Stevenson
Regius Chair of Humanity
Personal Details
| Telephone: | +44 (0)1224 272643 |
| E-mail: | j.b.stevenson@abdn.ac.uk |
| Address: | School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, Crombie Annexe, Meston Walk, King's College, University of Aberdeen, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3FX. Room: 205 |
Research Interests
I have two clusters of research interests which relates to the early middle ages, and another which relates to the Renaissance and early modern periods. The unifiying factor is working on Latin poetry by women, but in the early period, I have also worked on issues to do with Christianisation and literacy (principally with respect to Ireland and Anglo-Saxon England), and in the later period, I have some subsidiary concerns such as court and élite culture more generally, and my chief interests are focused on England and Italy. Having recently sent my Women Latin Poets book to Oxford, my next projects are an edition of the seventeenth-century scholar-poet Lucy Hutchinson’s translation of a key work of nonconformist theology for the Clarendon collected edition of Lucy Hutchinson (general editor, David Norbrook), and an edition of the Latin hymns of the Irish Church. Thereafter I hope to work on women scholars and poets in Baroque Rome.
I also have a second ongoing career as a literary novelist. Some of my work in this area consists of actual historical novels, but even those that are set in the present day are often concerned with the interaction of the past with the present. I am also a literary journalist and reviewer.
Teaching Responsibilities
First year: course coordinator for HI1013 'the Vikings' (lectures given by myself, Dr Frederik Pedersen, Dr David Ditchburn, Professor Angelo Forte)
Third year: HI3088, 'After Rome': the end of the Roman Empire, the rise of Byzantium, and the creation of Europe
Contributions to CU 2006, 'The Second Sex?' and CU3007, 'Continuity and Change'
Postgraduate: HI 5005, 'Basic Latin for Historians'
Publications
- Stevenson, JB. The Latin Hymns of the Irish Church: Scriptores Latini Hiberniae, Book, 2015
- Stevenson, JB. Women Prodigies, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2013, Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia
- Stevenson, JB. Women Writers and the Classics, Chapter, 2013, Oxford History Of Classical Reception In English Literature, 2
- Stevenson, JB. Women Writers Networks, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2013, Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia
- Stevenson, JB. Womenђs Education, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2013, Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopaedia
- Stevenson, JB. 'Adulation and Admonition in The Muses Welcome', Chapter, 2013, James VI and I, Literature and Scotland , pp267 - 281
- Stevenson, JB. Centos, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2013, Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia
- Stevenson, JB. Elizabethan Women Writers, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2013, Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia
- Stevenson, JB. Italian women writers, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2013, Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia
- Stevenson, JB. Johannes Secundus, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2013, Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia
- Stevenson, JB. Lucy Hutchinson Of Theologie, Book, 2013, II
- Stevenson, JB. Reading, Writing and Gender in Early Modern Scotland, Article, 2012, The Seventeenth Century, 27, 3, pp335 - 374, ISSN/ISBN: 0268-117X
- Stevenson, JB. Edward Burra's Archive, Chapter, 2012, All this Stuff
- Stevenson, JB. Hrotsvit in context, Chapter, 2012, A Companion to Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (fl. 960)
- Stevenson, JB. Texts and Textiles, Article, 2011, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 3, 3, pp39 - 57, ISSN/ISBN: 1759-3085
- Stevenson, JB., Beavan, IM. & Davidson, PRKA. The Breviary of Aberdeen, Article, 2011, Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, 6, pp11 - 41, ISSN/ISBN: 1752-0320
- Stevenson, JB. The Female Monarch and her Subjects, Chapter, 2011, Queen and Country
- Beavan, IM., Davidson, PRKA. & Stevenson, JB. The Library and Archive Collections of the University of Aberdeen, Book, 2011
- Stevenson, JB. Inculps and Aspershums, Chapter, 2011, Edward Burra, pp19 - 33
- Stevenson, JB. Camille de Morel and the Republic of Letters, Chapter, 2010, Collaboration and interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters , pp73 - 89
- Stevenson, JB. Earliest Irish Hymnology and Its Transmission, Chapter, 2010, The History of the Book in Ireland
- Stevenson, JB. Mildred Cecil, Lady Burleigh, Chapter, 2009, Ashgate Critical Essays on Women Writers in England, 15501700, pp51 - 73
- Stevenson, JB. & Davidson, PRKA. Ficino In Aberdeen, Article, 2009, Journal of the Northern Renaissance, 1, 1, pp64 - 87, ISSN/ISBN: 1759-3085
- Stevenson, JB. Horace and learned ladies, Chapter, 2009, Perceptions of Horace, pp182 - 199
- Stevenson, JB., Davidson, PRKA., Ellington, M. & Mccannell, D. The Lost City, Book, 2008
- Stevenson, JB. Women Catholics and Latin Culture, Chapter, 2008, Catholic Culture in Early Modern England - 52–72
- Stevenson, JB. Renaissance Women Students of Greek, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2007, Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance
- Stevenson, JB. Women Latinists in England and the Continent, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2007, Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance
- Stevenson, JB. Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye, Book, 2007
- Stevenson, JB. & Davidson, P. Elizabeth Is Reception at Bisham (1592), Chapter, 2007, The Progresses, Pageants, & Entertainments of Queen Elizabeth I - 207–226
- Stevenson, JB. Richard Ligon and the Theatre of Empire, Chapter, 2005, Shaping the Stuart World, pp285 - 301
- Stevenson, JB. The Court Culture of Elizabeth I, Chapter, 2005, In: Princes and Princely Culture, 1450-1650, vol 2 (eds. MacDonald, A.; Gosman, M.) Brill 2005, pp191 - 211
- Stevenson, JB. The Emblem-book of Margareta Godwijk, Chapter, 2005, Visual Words and Verbal Pictures, pp160 - 201
- Stevenson, JB. Anglo-Latin women poets, Chapter, 2005, In: Anglo-Latin Literature: Papers for Michael Lapidge (eds. Orchard, A.; O'Brien O'Keefe, K.) 2 vols,Toronto University Press
- Stevenson, JB. The Historical Background, editing and translation of 'Descriptio Publicae Gratulationis, Spectaculorum, et Ludorum, in adventu serenissimi Principis Ernesti', Chapter, 2004, Europa Triumphans: Festivals of the European Renaissance and After, Ronnie Mulryne, Aldershot, MHRA and Ashgate, pp71 - 466
- Stevenson, JB. Translations and the Spread of Greek and Latin Alphabets in Late Antiquity, Chapter, 2004, In: Uebersetzung: Translations : Traduction: An International Encyclopaedia of Translation Studies (eds. Frank, A.P.; Greiner, M.; et al) Berlin: Walter de Gruyter
- Stevenson, JB. Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century, Book, 2004
- Stevenson, JB. Jane Seymour, Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary, 2004, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, 49, pp888 - 889
- Stevenson, JB. Dreams and Dreamers in Seventeenth-Century England, Other, 2003
- Stevenson, JB. The Irish contribution to Anglo-Latin hermeneutic prose, Chapter, 2002, In: Ogma: Essays in Celtic Studies (eds. Picard, J-M.; Richter, M.) Four Courts, pp268 - 282
- Stevenson, JB. The Latin Poetry of Lorenza Strozzi, Chapter, 2002, In: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (eds. Churchill, L.; Brown, P.R.; Jeffrey, J.E.) Routledge, pp109 - 132
- Stevenson, JB. Women and Latin in the Renaissance, Letter, 2002, Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies, 19, pp10 - 16, ISSN/ISBN: 0264-8571
- Stevenson, JB. An Introduction to Epigraphic Poetry, Chapter, 2002, In: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (eds. Churchill, L.; Brown, P.R.; Jeffrey, J.E.) Routledge, pp25 - 44
- Stevenson, JB. Brothers and Sisters: Women and monastic Life in eight-century England and Frankia, Article, 2002, Netherlands Journal for Church History, 82, pp1 - 34, ISSN/ISBN: 0028-2030
- Stevenson, JB. Johanna Otho (Othonia) and Women's Latin Poetry in Reformed Europe, Chapter, 2002, In: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (eds. Churchill, L.; Brown, P.R.; Jeffrey, J.E.) Routledge, pp189 - 216
- Stevenson, JB. Women and Poets in Anglo-Latin of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries., Article, 2001, The Seventeenth Century, 16, pp1 - 36, ISSN/ISBN: 0268-117X
- Stevenson, JB. & Davidson, P. Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology, Book, 2001