Yr Athro Carl Phelpstead

(e/fe)

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: Boydell and Brewer. , pp.101-116. (10.1017/9781800104402.006)

2021

• Phelpstead, C. 2021. Canonizing kings: nordic royal hagiography as legitimation and glorification. In: Jerierski, W. et al., 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, Á. and Jakobsson, S. eds. The Routledge Research Companion to the Medieval Icelandic Sagas. Abingdon and New York: Routledge. , pp.187-197.

2014

• Phelpstead, C. 2014. Ecocriticism and Eyrbyggja saga. Leeds Studies in English 45 , pp.1-18.
• 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.

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. 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)
• 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. 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.

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. 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.
• 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. "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.

2009

• 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
• 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.

2008

• 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. 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. Holy vikings: Saints' lives in the old Icelandic kings' sagas. Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies.
• 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. 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. Published in: 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. 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. 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. 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.
• 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)

2004

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

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. Published in: 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. D. Kunin Text Series Vol. 13London: 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.