Organisers
Teaching the Codex is run by Tristan Franklinos and Mary Boyle. Tristan came to palaeography through Classics, and Mary through medieval English. They began to compare approaches during their Master’s degrees at Merton College, Oxford, and discussions with fellow postgraduates made clear the variety of teaching methodologies out there. These discussions led, ultimately, to Teaching the Codex. The Teaching the Codex committee members are Jessica Rahardjo, and Sebastian Dows-Miller.
About Mary:
Mary is currently a Fellow and Tutor at St Edmund’s College, Cambridge and Postgraduate Admissions Tutor at Homerton College, Cambridge. She is also Outreach Coordinator for German in Cambridge’s Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. In addition, Mary is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford.
Mary was previously a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford, an Irish Research Council Postdoctoral Research Fellowship at Maynooth University, a Visiting Scholar at the Centre for British Studies/ Großbritannien-Zentrum at the Humboldt University in Berlin, and a lecturer in German at Oriel College, Oxford. She completed an AHRC-funded doctorate at Merton College, Oxford in 2016. She is interested in the comparative literary study of medieval Germany and England. Mary has also worked on English vernacular manuscripts and German and English early printed books. Her current research interests are in nineteenth-century cross-cultural (Anglo-German) medievalism and medieval pilgrimage writing.
Mary is the author of Writing the Jerusalem Pilgrimage in the Late Middle Ages (2021) and the editor of International Medievalisms (2023).
About Tristan:
Tristan is a Lector in Greek & Latin in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Oxford, a Supernumerary Fellow at Wolfson College, and teaches for Oriel College, Oxford. He also held an Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung fellowship at the Abteilung für Griechische und Lateinische Philologie (Mittellateinische Philologie) at LMU-Munich until 2024. From 2018 to 2021, he held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship and was a Junior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Oxford. Since 2023, he has been a Fellow of the Società Internazionale per lo Studio del Medioevo Latino.
Current projects include a new critical edition of, and literary commentary on, [Vergil]’s Catalepton and Priapea, an edition and translation of Peter Abelard’s Hymns, and an annotated translation of Sicco Polenton’s quattrocento history of Latin literature. In his first monograph, he explores the ways in which the Latin elegist Propertius engages with and recasts his own poetic material, as well as that of his peers and predecessors. More broadly, he is interested in the literature of the first century B.C. (esp. the poets and Vitruvius); medieval Latin literature; the place of the author and the reader in relation to a text; and in textual criticism, palaeography, and the history of the book.
Committee Members
Jessica Rahardjo:
Jessica is a Postdoctoral Researcher on the Leverhulme Trust-funded project Mapping Sumatra’s Manuscript Cultures at SOAS University of London, and Research Associate at the Khalili Research Centre, Oxford. Her research focuses on the material and manuscript cultures of Islamic Southeast Asia. She completed a DPhil in History and an MPhil in Islamic Art and Archaeology at the University of Oxford. Jessica has been a member of the Teaching the Codex committee since 2016.
Sebastian Dows-Miller:
Past Committee Member
Alex Peplow:
Alex worked on his DPhil in the History Faculty, at the University of Oxford, where he completed a thesis entitled ‘Political Ecclesiology: Ockham, Ludwig IV, and Anti-Papal Imperialism’. He is also interested in the spread of non-German literature within the Empire.
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