Medieval

The intention is to produce a detailed line-by-line bibliographical database on Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival, arguably the most important and complex work of medieval German literature. Owing partly to the vast secondary literature on Parzival and partly to its linguistic complexity, the need has constantly been expressed for an up-to-date detailed line-by-line commentary on the whole of Wolfram’s Grail romance. Some individual commentaries have been published within the last twenty years on portions of the work (e.g. David N.

The aim of this project is to publish catalogues of all the Anglo-Saxon carved stones, fully illustrated by high quality photographs, with general discussions concerning their relationships and significance, and full bibliographic references. Initially the regional volumes are published by the British Academy, but when the volumes are no longer in the Academy list they are published in shortened form on the internet. The digitized photographs are curated by the ADS (York).

The place-names were collected as part of the Arts and Humanities Research Board-funded (AHRB) ‘Norse-Gaelic Frontier Project, which ran from autumn 2000 to summer 2001, the full details of which are published as Crawford and Taylor 'The Southern Frontier of Norse Settlement in North Scotland: Place-Names and History’ (2003). Its main aim was to explore the toponymy of the drainage basin of the River Beauly, especially Strathglass, with a view to establishing the nature and extent of Norse place-name survival along what had been a Norse-Gaelic frontier in the 11th century.

This project employed modern spatial technologies to explore how towns were formed in the middle ages. Its focus was on a group of 'new towns' established in England and Wales in the later thirteenth century during the reign of King Edward I.