Dr Sinead O'Sullivan
BA, MA (NUI), DPhil (Oxford) FRHistS
Senior Lecturer in Medieval History
Advisor of Studies (S2)
On Leave, Semester 1, 2012-13
Tel: +44 (0) 28 9097 3430
E-mail: s.osullivan@qub.ac.uk
Office: 15UQ.201A
Sinéad O’Sullivan was an undergraduate at University College Cork and postgraduate there and at Universität Konstanz and Oxford University. She was a Rhodes Scholar at St Anne’s College, Oxford, completing a D.Phil on Carolingian and Ottonian intellectual history. She joined the School of History and Anthropology at Queen’s in 2005.
Research Interests
Her research interests are in early medieval European intellectual history. Sinéad’s main focus has been on the glossing traditions of the early Middle Ages. Her first study resulted in an edition of the late Carolingian glosses on Prudentius’ Psychomachia as found in the German manuscript tradition (Brill, 2004). She has recently completed an edition of the earliest commentary on Martianus Capella’s De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. She is involved in an international project to produce a digital edition of this commentary, directed by Mariken Teeuwen, Constantijn Huygens Institute, The Hague, and in 2006 held a research fellowship at the Scaliger Institute at Leiden University to further this project. She has also worked and published on the patristic background to Aldhelm’s De Virginitate.
Select Publications
Books
- Mariken Teeuwen and Sinead O'Sullivan (eds), Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella: Ninth-Century Commentary Traditions on ‘De nuptiis’ in Context (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011)
- Glossae aeui Carolini in libros I-II Martiani Capellae “De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii”, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis 237 (Turnhout, Brepols, 2010), pp. 654.
- Early medieval glosses on Prudentius’ Psychomachia: The Weitz tradition, Mittellateinische Studien und Texte 31 (Leiden, Brill, 2004), pp. 381.
Articles and papers
- ‘The Corpus Martianus Capella: Continental Gloss Traditions on De Nuptiis in Wales and Anglo-Saxon England’, Cambrian Medieval Celtic Studies 62 (Winter 2011), pp. 33-56.
- ‘Martianus Capella and the Carolingians: Some observations based on the glosses on books I-II from the oldest gloss tradition’, in E. Mullins, D. Scully (eds), Listen, O Isles, unto me: Studies in Medieval Word and Image in honour of Jennifer O’Reilly (Cork, 2010).
- ‘Styles of glossing and styles of knowing in early medieval manuscripts of Prudentius’ Psychomachia’, Mediaevalia 25.1 (Binghamton, N.Y., 2004) pp. 189-218.
- ‘The image of adornment in Aldhelm’s De uirginitate: Cyprian and his influence’, Peritia 15 (Turnhout, Brepols, 2001) pp. 48-57.
- ‘Aldhelm’s De uirginiate and the Psychomachian tradition’, in K.L. Boardman et al. (eds), Framing the text: reading tradition and image in medieval Europe, Mediaevalia 20 (Binghamton, N.Y., 2001) pp. 313-3.
- ‘Aldhelm’s De uirginitate: patristic pastiche or innovative exposition’, Peritia 12 (Turnhout, Brepols, 1998) pp. 271-95.
Digital edition
Teaching
Dr Sinead O'Sullivan teaches on the following programmes / modules:
Undergraduate
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The Roman Origins of the East and West 300–700 |
Recent PhD Supervision:
- Metin Berke, 'An annotated critical edition of Euthymios Zigabenos, Panoplia Dogmatike, Chapters 23-28', PhD 2011
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