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Dr Anne Marie D'Arcy MA, Ph.D (Dublin), FSA, FRHistS Visiting Research Fellow

Research and Teaching Interests

Anne Marie D’Arcy is a graduate of Trinity College Dublin, and has held lectureships in University College Dublin, and National University of Ireland, Maynooth. She was Associate Professor in Medieval and Renaissance English Language and Literature in the School of Arts, and former director of the Medieval Research Centre, at the University of Leicester (2008-18). She is a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (2019); a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2020), and a Trustee of the International James Joyce Foundation (2022). Her research interests lie in the areas of medieval and Renaissance Wisdom literature, medieval and Renaissance iconology and political theology; the patristic sources of Old and Middle English, and nineteenth and twentieth-century medievalism, especially James Joyce. She has published a number of articles on Joyce’s treatment of such topics as libel law, freemasonry, medieval Irish placelore, Dublin’s water supply, anti-Semitism, medieval Irish manuscripts (most notably the Book of Kells), the Eucharistic Congress of 1932, and ‘Araby’ as a grail quest. She is a member of the editorial board of Annotations to James Joyce’s Ulysses (Oxford, 2022). In addition to a number of articles and two edited books on medieval and Renaissance literature, she has published a major study on the grail legend, Wisdom and the Grail: The Image of the Vessel in the Queste del Saint Graal and Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal (Dublin, 2000), and was the Principal Investigator of a landmark exhibition, ‘James Joyce: Apocalypse and Exile’ in Marsh’s Library Dublin (2014-15), now online. She is currently completing Joyce and the Irish Middle Ages: Saints, Sages, and Insular Culture, which is the first monograph devoted to Joyce’s engagement with the Insular period, specifically the influence of Irish learning and artistry on Britain and the Continent from the sixth to the twelfth centuries. She is also the author of The Artifice of Eternity: Mariology in the English Poetic Tradition (Oxford, forthcoming). In the longer term, she is working on a monograph on Chaucer and the Later Crusades.

She has taught on a range of subjects: History of the English Language; Old English; Middle English; Renaissance Literature and Language; 17th-18th Century Literature; Victorian literature, especially Medievalism; Modernism; American Literature; Contemporary Literature; History of Ideas; Patristic and Medieval Historical Sources (patrology, exegesis, canonicity), and Text and Image.

Publications

Authored Books

Joyce and the Irish Middle Ages: Saints, Sages and Insular Culture (Examines the influence of literature and learning during the Insular and later medieval period on Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Ulysses, Finnegans Wake and Joyce’s occasional writings of medieval interest). (c. 220,000 words, Routledge Studies in Medieval Religion and Culture, forthcoming 2024).

(with John McCafferty and Jason McElligot) James Joyce: Apocalypse and Exile (Dublin: Marsh’s Library, 2014), 96pp., ISBN-10: 0993095305; ISBN-13: 978-0993095306.

Wisdom and the Grail: The Image of the Vessel in the Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2000). 412pp., ISBN-10: 1851824960; ISBN-13: 9781851824960.

Edited Books

(with Alan J. FLetcher) Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood: ‘The Key of All Good Remembrance’, (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005). 416pp., ISBN-10: 185182929; ISBN-13: 978-185182929.

(with Helen Conrad O’Briain and John Scattergood) Text and Gloss: Studies in Insular Learning and Literature: Essays Presented to Joseph Donovan Pheifer (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999). 214pp., ISBN-10: 185182443X; ISBN-13: 9781851824434.

Peer Reviewed Articles

Columban Texts and Joyce’s ‘book of kills’ (FW 482.33): The Limits of a Palaeographer’s View in Finnegans Wake’, European Joyce Studies 29 (2020), 180-96 (DOI:10.1163/9789004426191).

‘Haggiography in duotrigesumy’ (FW 324.12): Saints, Sages and the Thirty-first International Eucharistic Congress, 21-26 June 1932‘, Dublin James Joyce Journal 10 (2017), 44-64 (DOI:10.1353/DJJ.2017.0003).

‘Ecclesia, Anima and Spiritual Priesthood in Aemilia Lanyer’s Salve Deus Rex Judaeorum’, Review of English Studies ns 66 (2015), 634-654 (DOI: 10.1093/res/hgv053).

‘Piercing the Veil: Der reine Tor, the Grail Quest, and the Language Question in “Araby”’, Dublin James Joyce Journal 6/7 (2013/14), 20-43 (DOI:10.1353/djj.2014.0011).

‘Dindsenchas, Mr Deasy and the Nightmare of Partition in Ulysses’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy C 114 (2014) 1-31 (DOI: 10.3318/priac.2014.114.05)

‘Joyce and the Twoheaded Octopus of judéo-maçonnerie’, Review of English Studies ns 64 (2013), 857-77 (DOI:10.1093/res/hgt015), also published in a commemorative, digital edition of Review of English Studies, devoted to Ireland and Irish writing, 2016: https://academic.oup.com/res/pages/irish_writing.

‘“Vartryville”: Dublin’s Water Supply and Joyce’s Sublation of Local Government’, Joyce Studies Annual (2013), 252-94 (DOI: 10.1353/joy.2013.0004).

‘The Faerie King’s Kunstkammer: Imperial Discourse and the Wondrous in Sir Orfeo’, Review of English Studies ns 58 (2007), 10-33. (DOI: 10.1093/res/hgl140)

‘Li Anemis Meismes’: Satan and Synagogue in La Queste del Saint Graal’, Medium Ævum 66 (1997), 207-35. (DOI:10.2307/43630063).

Chapters in Books

‘Mariology, Rhetorical Decorum, and the Material Culture of Aureate Diction’, Middle English Lyrics. New Readings of Short Poems, ed. Julia Boffey and Christiania Whitehead (Boydell and Brewer, 2018), pp. 109-21 (DOI: 10.2307/j.ctvc16hdd.15).

‘“Eating orangepeels in the park”: Largesse, Libel and Public Action in Ulysses’, in Joyce and the Law, ed. Jonathan Goldman (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2017), pp. 157-78 (DOI: 10.5744/florida/9780813054742.003.0010).

‘Joyce’s Saints and Sages: History, Hagiology, and the Irish Franciscan Tradition,’ in Anne Marie D’Arcy, John McCafferty, Marina Ansaldo and Jason McElligot, James Joyce: Apocalypse and Exile (Dublin: Marsh’s Library, 2014), pp. 11-17 (https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi2/exhibits/show/joyce).

‘Joachim of Fiore and “Joachitism” from Stephen Hero to Finnegans Wake’, in Anne Marie D’Arcy, John McCafferty, Marina Ansaldo and Jason McElligot, James Joyce: Apocalypse and Exile (Dublin: Marsh’s Library, 2014), pp. 18-26. (https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi2/exhibits/show/joyce).

‘Joyce and the Trecento’, in Anne Marie D’Arcy, John McCafferty, Marina Ansaldo and Jason McElligot, James Joyce: Apocalypse and Exile (Dublin: Marsh’s Library, 2014), pp. 27-30 (https://www.marshlibrary.ie/digi2/exhibits/show/joyce).

‘“Into the kirk wald not hir self present”: Leprosy, Blasphemy and Heresy in Henryson’s The Testament of Cresseid’, in Studies in Late Medieval and Early Renaissance Texts in Honour of John Scattergood: ‘The Key of All Good Remembrance’, ed. Anne Marie D’Arcy and Alan J. Fletcher (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2005), pp. 100-20.

‘The Middle English Lyric’, in Interpreting Medieval Literature: Readings of Old and Middle English Texts, ed. David F. Johnson and Elaine Treharne (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004), 424pp., (ISBN-10: 0199261636; ISBN-13: 9780199261635), pp.306-22.

‘“Cursed folk of Herodes al new”: Supersessionist Typology and Chaucer’s Prioress’, in Writing Gender and Genre in Medieval Literature: Approaches to Old and Middle English Texts, ed. Elaine Treharne, Essays and Studies 55 (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2002), 142pp. (ISBN-10: 0859917606; ISBN-13: 9780859917605), pp. 117-36

‘Holy Vessell and Blyssed Bloode: Malory’s Personal Symbolism of the Grail’, in Middle English from Tongue to Text, ed. Peter J. Lucas and Angela M. Lucas, Studies in English Medieval Language and Literature 4, 341 pp. (ISBN-13: 9783631387801) (Frankfurt am Main and New York: Peter Lang, 2002), pp. 293-318.

Selected Reviews

Review of Thorlac Turville-Petre, ed. Poems from BL MS Harley 913: ‘The Kildare Manuscript’, EETS os 345 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015’, Review of English Studies ns 67 (2016), 991-2 (https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgw043).

Review of Craig M. Rustici, The Afterlife of Pope Joan: Deploying the Popess Legend in Early Modern England (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006), Bulletin for the Society for Renaissance Studies 28 (2011), 49-52.

Review of Thomas G. Duncan, ed. A Companion to the Middle English Lyric (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2005), Review of English Studies ns 58 (2007), 394-7 (https://doi.org/10.1093/res/hgm044).

(with Jill Frederick and Mary Swan) ‘Old English Literature’, Year’s Work in English Studies 81 (2002 for 2000), 132-70. (http://ywes.oxfordjournals.org/content/81/1/132.full.pdf+html)

‘No Notion is Too Audacious’. Review of Umberto Eco, Foucault’s Pendulum, trans. William Weaver (London: Secker and Warburg, 1989), The Irish Independent, Saturday, 10 February 1990, p. 18.

Other Publications (MOOCs and Blogs)

The following form part of the University of Leicester’s massive open online course, ‘England in the Time of King Richard III’ (https://le.ac.uk/courses/mooc-england-in-the-time-of-king-richard-iii):

‘High Status Books’: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/england-of-richard-third/1/register

‘High Status Books II: Richard III’s library’: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/england-of-richard-third/1/register

‘The Use of Words in Other Media’: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/england-of-richard-third/1/register

‘The Use of Words in Other Media II: Religious Text’: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/england-of-richard-third/1/register

‘Caxton and the First English Printed Books’: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/england-of-richard-third/1/register

‘The Spread of Early Books and Survival of Manuscripts’: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/england-of-richard-third/1/register

‘Caxton, Woodville and Revenge’: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/england-of-richard-third/1/register

‘A Tale of Two Eggs’: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/england-of-richard-third/1/register

‘The Rise of Published English’: https://www.futurelearn.com/courses/england-of-richard-third/1/register

‘Saint-Denis and Notre-Dame: Royal Abbey and Civic Cathedral’, Irish Humanities Alliance (Royal Irish Academy) (Blog): https://www.irishhumanities.com/blog/royal-abbey-and-civic-cathedral-saint-denis-and-notre-dame/