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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  

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

110HIS249 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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