Professor Jane Stevenson

Professor Jane Stevenson The University of Aberdeen School of Divinity, History & Philosophy Regius Chair of Humanity work +44 (0)1224 272643 pref j.b.stevenson@abdn.ac.uk pref School of Divinity, History and Philosophy,
Crombie Annexe,
Meston Walk,
King's College,
University of Aberdeen,
Old Aberdeen,
AB24 3FX.
Room: 205

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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.

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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'

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Publications

Contributions to Journals

Articles

• Stevenson, JB. (in press). 'Reading, Writing and Gender in Early Modern Scotland'. The Seventeenth Century, vol 27, no. 3, pp. 335-374.
• Stevenson, JB., Beavan, IM. & Davidson, PRKA. (2011). 'The Breviary of Aberdeen'. Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society, vol 6, pp. 11-41.
• Stevenson, JB. (2011). 'Texts and Textiles: Self-Presentation among the Elite in Renaissance England'. Journal of the Northern Renaissance, vol 3, no. 3, pp. 39-57.
• Stevenson, JB. & Davidson, PRKA. (2009). 'Ficino In Aberdeen: The Continuing Problem Of The Scottish Renaissance'. Journal of the Northern Renaissance, vol 1, no. 1, pp. 64-87.
• Stevenson, JB. (2002). 'Brothers and Sisters: Women and monastic Life in eight-century England and Frankia'. Netherlands Journal for Church History, vol 82, pp. 1-34.
• Stevenson, JB. (2001). 'Women and Poets in Anglo-Latin of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries'. The Seventeenth Century, vol 16, pp. 1-36.

Chapters in Books, Reports and Conference Proceedings

Chapters

• Stevenson, JB. (in press). ''Adulation and Admonition in The Muses Welcome''. in: James VI and I, Literature and Scotland : Tides of Change, 1567-1625. Editions Peeters, Leuven, pp. 267-281.
• Stevenson, JB. (2012). 'Edward Burra's Archive'. J Vaknin, K Stuckey & V Lane (eds), in: All this Stuff: Archiving the Artist. Libri Publishing.
• Stevenson, JB. (2011). 'The Female Monarch and her Subjects'. A Petrina (ed.), in: Queen and Country: The Relation Between the Monarch and the People in the Development of the English Nation. Peter Lang Pub.
• Stevenson, JB. (2011). 'Inculps and Aspershums: Burra's life and letters'. S Martin (ed.), in: Edward Burra. Lund Humphries, Farnham, pp. 19-33.
• Stevenson, JB. (2010). 'Camille de Morel and the Republic of Letters'. P Scott (ed.), in: Collaboration and interdisciplinarity in the Republic of Letters : Essays in honour of Richard G. Maber. Manchester University Press, Manchester, pp. 73-89.
• Stevenson, JB. (2009). 'Horace and learned ladies'. L Houghton & M Wyke (eds), in: Perceptions of Horace: A Roman Poet and his Readers. Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, United Kingdom, pp. 182-199.
• Stevenson, JB. (2005). 'The Court Culture of Elizabeth I'. in: In: Princes and Princely Culture, 1450-1650, vol 2 (eds. MacDonald, A.; Gosman, M.) Brill 2005. In: Princes and Princely Culture, 1450-1650, vol 2 (eds. MacDonald, A.; Gosman, M.) Brill 2005, pp. 191-211.
• Stevenson, JB. (2005). 'The Emblem-book of Margareta Godwijk'. A Saunders (ed.), in: Visual Words and Verbal Pictures. Glasgow Emblem Studies, pp. 160-201.
• Stevenson, JB. (2005). 'Richard Ligon and the Theatre of Empire'. A MacInness & A. Williamson (eds), in: Shaping the Stuart World. Leiden: Brill, pp. 285-301.
• Stevenson, JB. (2004). 'The Historical Background, editing and translation of 'Descriptio Publicae Gratulationis, Spectaculorum, et Ludorum, in adventu serenissimi Principis Ernesti''. in: Europa Triumphans: Festivals of the European Renaissance and After, Ronnie Mulryne, Aldershot, MHRA and Ashgate. Europa Triumphans: Festivals of the European Renaissance and After, Ronnie Mulryne, Aldershot, MHRA and Ashgate, pp. 71-466.
• Stevenson, JB. (2004). 'Translations and the Spread of Greek and Latin Alphabets in Late Antiquity'. in: In: Uebersetzung: Translations : Traduction: An International Encyclopaedia of Translation Studies (eds. Frank, A.P.; Greiner, M.; et al) Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. In: Uebersetzung: Translations : Traduction: An International Encyclopaedia of Translation Studies (eds. Frank, A.P.; Greiner, M.; et al) Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
• Stevenson, JB. (2002). 'An Introduction to Epigraphic Poetry'. in: In: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (eds. Churchill, L.; Brown, P.R.; Jeffrey, J.E.) Routledge. In: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (eds. Churchill, L.; Brown, P.R.; Jeffrey, J.E.) Routledge, pp. 25-44.
• Stevenson, JB. (2002). 'The Irish contribution to Anglo-Latin hermeneutic prose'. in: In: Ogma: Essays in Celtic Studies (eds. Picard, J-M.; Richter, M.) Four Courts. In: Ogma: Essays in Celtic Studies (eds. Picard, J-M.; Richter, M.) Four Courts, pp. 268-282.
• Stevenson, JB. (2002). 'The Latin Poetry of Lorenza Strozzi'. in: In: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (eds. Churchill, L.; Brown, P.R.; Jeffrey, J.E.) Routledge. In: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (eds. Churchill, L.; Brown, P.R.; Jeffrey, J.E.) Routledge, pp. 109-132.
• Stevenson, JB. (2002). 'Johanna Otho (Othonia) and Women's Latin Poetry in Reformed Europe'. in: In: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (eds. Churchill, L.; Brown, P.R.; Jeffrey, J.E.) Routledge. In: Women Writing Latin from Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe (eds. Churchill, L.; Brown, P.R.; Jeffrey, J.E.) Routledge, pp. 189-216.

Entries for Encyclopedias and Dictionaries

• Stevenson, JB. (in press). '˜Women’s Education’'. P Ford (ed.), in: Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopaedia. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
• Stevenson, JB. (in press). 'Elizabethan Women Writers'. P Ford (ed.), in: Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
• Stevenson, JB. (in press). 'Italian women writers'. P Ford (ed.), in: Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
• Stevenson, JB. (in press). 'Women Prodigies'. P Ford (ed.), in: Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
• Stevenson, JB. (in press). 'Women Writers’ Networks'. P Ford (ed.), in: Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
• Stevenson, JB. (in press). 'Centos'. P ford (ed.), in: Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
• Stevenson, JB. (in press). 'Johannes Secundus'. P Ford (ed.), in: Brill Neo-Latin Encyclopedia. E.J. Brill, Leiden.
• Stevenson, JB. (2007). 'Women Latinists in England and the Continent'. A Larsen, DM Robin & C Levin (eds), in: Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France and England. ABC-Clio Information Services.
• Stevenson, JB. (2007). 'Renaissance Women Students of Greek'. A Larsen (ed.), in: Encyclopedia of Women in the Renaissance: Italy, France and England. ABC-Clio Information Services.
• Stevenson, JB. (2004). 'Jane Seymour'. HCG Matthew & B Harrison (eds), in: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. vol. 49, Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom, pp. 888-889.
  [Online] DOI: 10.1093/ref:odnb/68051

Contributions to Conferences

Other Contributions

• Stevenson, JB. (2003). 'Dreams and Dreamers in Seventeenth-Century England'.

Books and Reports

Books

• Beavan, IM., Davidson, PRKA. & Stevenson, JB. (2011). 'The Library and Archive Collections of the University of Aberdeen: an Introduction and Description'. Manchester University Press, Manchester, United Kingdom.
• Stevenson, JB., Davidson, PRKA., Ellington, M. (ed.) & Mccannell, D. (ed.) (2008). 'The Lost City: Old Aberdeen'. Birlinn, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
• Stevenson, JB. (2007). 'Edward Burra: Twentieth-Century Eye'. Jonathan Cape, London.
• Stevenson, JB. (2004). 'Women Latin Poets: Language, Gender and Authority from Antiquity to the Eighteenth Century'. Unknown Publisher, Oxford University Press.
• Stevenson, JB. & Davidson, P. (2001). 'Early Modern Women Poets: An Anthology'. Unknown Publisher, Oxford University Press.

Contributions to Specialist Publications

Letters

• Stevenson, JB. (2002). 'Women and Latin in the Renaissance'. p. 10-16, Bulletin of the Society for Renaissance Studies.

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