Professor Carl Phelpstead

(he/him)

BA (Sheffield), MPhil, DPhil (Oxon)

2024

• Grønlie, S. and Phelpstead, C. eds. 2024. The Medieval North and its afterlife: Essays in honor of Heather O'Donoghue. Berlin: De Gruyter. (10.1515/9781501516597)
• Grønlie, S. and Phelpstead, C. 2024. Introduction. In: Grønlie, S. and Phelpstead, C. eds. The Medieval North and Its Afterlife: Essays in Honor of Heather O'Donoghue. De Gruyter, pp. 1-3., (10.1515/9781501516597-003)
• Phelpstead, C. 2024. Past and present identities in Margaret Elphinstone's Islanders. In: Grønlie, S. and Phelpstead, C. eds. The Medieval North and its afterlife: Essays in honor of Heather O'Donoghue. De Gruyter, pp. 255-266., (10.1515/9781501516597-021)

2022

• Phelpstead, C. 2022. ‘Kringla heimsins’: Old Norse sagas, world literature and the global turn in medieval studies. Saga-Book 46, pp. 155-178.
• Phelpstead, C. 2022. Myth-making, sub-creation, and world-building. In: Lee, S. ed. A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien (2nd edition). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 67-78.
• Phelpstead, C. 2022. Geoffrey of Monmouth and J. R. R. Tolkien : myth-making and national identity in the twelfth and twentieth centuries. In: Vasconcelos, F., Botelho, I. and Malato, M. L. eds. Worlds made of Heroes: a Tribute to J. R. R. Tolkien. Porto, Portugal: Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Letras, pp. 81-104.
• Phelpstead, C. 2022. 'Better a valiant squire than a cowardly knight': Gender in Guruns strengleikr (The Lay of Gurun). In: Flood, V. and Leitch, M. G. eds. Cultural Translations in Medieval Romance., Vol. 24. Studies in Medieval Romance Cambridge: D. S. Brewer

2021

• Phelpstead, C. 2021. Canonizing kings: nordic royal hagiography as legitimation and glorification. In: Jerierski, W. et al. eds. Nordic Elites in Transformation, c. 1050–1250, Volume III: Legitimacy and Glory. Routledge, pp. 39-60.

2020

• Phelpstead, C. 2020. Eddas, sagas, and Victorians. In: Parker, J. and Wagner, C. eds. The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism. Oxford University Press, pp. 271-288.
• Phelpstead, C. 2020. An introduction to the sagas of Icelanders. New Perspectives on Medieval Literature: Authors and Traditions. University Press of Florida.
• Phelpstead, C. 2020. Companions, conflicts, and concubines: clerical masculinities in Larentius saga biskups. In: Evans, G. L. and Hancock, J. C. eds. Masculinities in Old Norse Literature. D. S. Brewer, pp. 203-216.

2019

• Phelpstead, C. 2019. Penda's Mercia: the past in the present, with photographs by Ben Phelpstead. In: Harle, M. and Machin, J. eds. Of Mud and Flame: The Penda's Fen Sourcebook. London: Strange Attractor Press, pp. 168-182.

2018

• Phelpstead, C. 2018. Beyond ecocriticism: a cosmocritical reading of Ælfwine's prayerbook. Review of English Studies 69(291), pp. 613-631. (10.1093/res/hgy037)

2017

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2017. Time. In: Jakobsson, ?. and Jakobsson, S. eds. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas. Abingdon and New York: Routledge, pp. 187-197.

2014

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2014. Myth-making and sub-creation. In: Lee, S. D. ed. A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien. Wiley-Blackwell, pp. 79-91.
• Phelpstead, C. 2014. Ecocriticism and Eyrbyggja saga. Leeds Studies in English 45, pp. 1-18.

2013

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2013. "For W. H. A.": Tolkien's poem in praise of Auden. In: Eilmann, J. and Turner, A. eds. Tolkien's Poetry. Cormarë Series No. 28 Walking Tree Press, pp. 45-58.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2013. Tolkien, David Jones, and the God Nodens. [Online]. The Lord of the Rings Plaza Website. Available at: http://www.lotrplaza.com/showthread.php?28791-Carl-Phelpstead-Tolkien-David-Jones-and-the-God-Nodens&p=525962
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2013. Skaldic saints and stories of miracles: Christianity and vernacular literary culture in Trondheim and Kirkwall. Northern Studies, pp. 80-97.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2013. Hair today, gone tomorrow: Hair loss, the tonsure, and masculinity in medieval Iceland. Scandinavian Studies 85(1), pp. 1-19. (10.1353/scd.2013.0019)

2012

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2012. Fantasy and history: The limits of plausibility in Oddr Snorrason’s Óláfs saga 'Tryggvasonar'. Saga-Book 36, pp. 27-42.

2011

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2011. Tolkien and Wales: Language, literature and identity. Cardiff: University of Wales Press.

2010

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2010. Anonymous: Egils Saga. The Literary Encyclopedia
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2010. Men in Anglo-Saxon England.. The English Parish Church Through the Centuries: Daily Life & Spirituality, Art & Architecture, Literature & Music Culture and Christianity Project.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2010. Old English verse saints’ lives. The English Parish Church Through the Centuries: Daily Life & Spirituality, Art & Architecture, Literature & Music Culture and Christianity Project.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2010. "Th'ende is every tales strengthe": contextualizing Chaucerian perspectives on death and judgement. In: Phillips, H. E. ed. Chaucer and Religion. Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching and Research Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, pp. 97-110.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2010. Introduction to The Tale of Hogni and Hedinn (translated by William Morris and Eiríkr Magnússon). In: Arnold, M. and Finlay, A. eds. Making History: Essays on the Fornaldarsögur. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, pp. 105-118.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2010. Entries on ‘Gunnlaugr Leifsson,’ ‘Historia Norwegiae,’ and ‘Oddr Snorrason’. In: Bjork, R. E. ed. The Oxford Dictionary of the Middle Ages. Oxford: Oxford University Press, pp. 755, 802, 1221.

2009

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2009. King, martyr and virgin: Imitatio Christi in Ælfric’s Life of St Edmund. In: Bale, A. ed. St Edmund, King and Martyr: Changing Images of a Medieval Saint. Woodbridge: York Medieval Press, pp. 27-44.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2009. Adventure-time in Yngvars saga víðförla.. In: Jakobsson, A., Lassen, A. and Ney, A. eds. Fornaldarsagaerne: Myter og virkelighed. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, University of Copenhagen, pp. 331-347.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2009. Hair loss, the tonsure, and masculinity in medieval Iceland. Presented at: 14th International Saga Conference, Uppsala, Sweden, 9-15 August 2009. Institutionen för nordiska språk

2008

• Phelpstead, C. ed. 2008. A history of Norway and the passion and miracles of the Blessed Óláfr [web publication of 2001 edition with corrections and Supplementary Note]..Kunin, D. London: Viking Society for Northern Research (UCL).
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2008. “With chunks of poetry in between”: The Lord of the Rings and Saga Poetics. Tolkien Studies 5, pp. 23-38.

2007

• Clark, D. and Phelpstead, C. eds. 2007. Old Norse made new: essays on the post-medieval reception of Old Norse literature and culture. London: Viking Society for Northern Research.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2007. Size matters: Penile problems in sagas of Icelanders. Exemplaria 19(3), pp. 420-437. (10.1179/175330707X237230)
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2007. Holy vikings: Saints' lives in the old Icelandic kings' sagas. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2007. A Viking pacifist? The life of St Magnus in saga, novel, and opera. In: Clark, D. and Phelpstead, C. L. eds. Old Norse Made New: Essays on the Post-Medieval Reception of Old Norse Literature and Culture. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, pp. 119-132.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2007. Óláfs ríma Haraldssonar. In: Faulkes, A. ed. A New Introduction to Old Norse, Part II: Reader. 4th edn.. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, pp. 307-322.

2006

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2006. "Brut" by Layamon. In: Drout, M. D. C. ed. The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. New York: Routledge, pp. 76-77.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2006. Christ: advent lyrics. In: Drout, M. D. C. ed. The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. New York: Routledge, pp. 98-99.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2006. Homecoming of Beorhtnoth. In: Drout, M. D. C. ed. The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. New York: Routledge, pp. 283-284.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2006. Northern courage. In: Drout, M. D. C. ed. The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. New York: Routledge, pp. 461-462.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2006. On translating "Beowulf". In: Drout, M. D. C. ed. The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. New York: Routledge, pp. 482-483.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2006. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Pearl, Sir Orfeo edited by Christopher Tolkien. In: Drout, M. D. C. ed. The J. R. R. Tolkien Encyclopedia: Scholarship and Critical Assessment. New York: Routledge, pp. 614-615.
• Phelpstead, C. 2006. Pilgrims, missionaries and martyrs: The holy in Bede, Orkneyinga saga and Knýtlinga saga. In: Mortensen, L. B. ed. The Making of Christian Myths in the Periphery of Latin Christendom (c. 1000–1300). Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press, pp. 53-81.
• Phelpstead, C. 2006. Historicizing plausibility: the anticipation of disbelief in Oddr Snorrason’s Óláfs saga Tryggvasonar. Presented at: 13th International Saga Conference, Durham, UK and York, UK, 6-12 August 2006 Presented at McKinnell, J., Ashurst, D. and Kick, D. eds.The Fantastic in Old Norse/Icelandic Literature – Sagas and the British Isles: Preprint Papers of the 13th International Saga Conference, Durham and York, 6th–12th August, 2006, Vol. 2. Durham: Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies pp. 759-768.
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2006. Discussion: interrogating genre in the Fornaldarsögur [Contribution]. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 2, pp. 275-296. (10.1484/J.VMS.2.302026)

2005

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2005. Converting to Europe: Christian themes in Knýtlinga saga. Viking and Medieval Scandinavia 1, pp. 163-177. (10.1484/J.VMS.2.3017469)
• Phelpstead, C. 2005. Maríu saga: A miracle of the virgin Mary. In: Faulkes, A. ed. A New Introduction to Old Norse, Part II: Reader, 3rd edn.. London: Viking Society for Northern Research, pp. 173-178.

2004

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2004. Middle English lyric, 1100–1500. The Literary Encyclopedia
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2004. Auden and the Inklings: an alliterative revival. The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 103(4), pp. 433-457.
• Phelpstead, C. 2004. A new edition of Biskupa sögur. Gripla 15, pp. 245-261.

2003

• Phelpstead, C. L. 2003. Anonymous: Hrólfs saga kraka [The saga of King Hrólf Kraki]. The Literary Encyclopedia
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2003. Anonymous. Njáls Saga. 1275. The Literary Encyclopedia
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2003. Music in Anglo-Saxon England. The Literary Encyclopedia
• Phelpstead, C. L. 2003. The Sexual Ideology of Hrólfs saga kraka. Scandinavian Studies 75(1), pp. 1-24.
• Phelpstead, C. 2003. Masculinity and sexuality in sagas of Scandinavian royal saints. Presented at: Scandinavian and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages. Papers of the 12th International Saga Conference, Bonn, 28th July - 2 August 2003 Presented at Simek, R. and Meurer, J. eds.Scandinavia and Christian Europe in the Middle Ages: Papers of the 12th International Saga Conference Bonn/Germany, 28th July – 2nd August 2003. Bonn: Hausdruckerei der Universität Bonn pp. 421-428.

2001

• Phelpstead, C. L. and Kunin, D. Phelpstead, C. L. ed. 2001. A history of Norway and the passion and miracles of the Blessed Óláfr.Kunin, D. Text Series Vol. 13. London: Viking Society for Northern Research (UCL).

2000

• Phelpstead, C. 2000. In honour of St Óláfr: the miracle stories in Snorri Sturluson’s Óláfs saga helga. Saga-Book of the Viking Society for Northern Research 25, pp. 292-306.