PUBLICATIONS

Books Lambeth Palace Library and its Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, exhibition mounted for the biennial conference of the International Society of Anglo-Saxonists, 3 August 2007, ed. by David Ganz and Jane Roberts with Richard Palmer (London, Taderon Press, 2007). Guide to Scripts Used in English Writings up to 1500. (London: British Library Publishing. 2005). Middle English Word Studies: A Word and Author Index (with Louise Sylvester) (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000) The Guthlac Poems of the Exeter Book , Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1979

Thesaurus Historical Thesaurus of the Oxford English Dictionary Download PDF leaflet [261.35KB] A Thesaurus of Old English (Jane Roberts & Christian Kay with Lynne Grundy), 2 vols, King's College London Medieval Studies XI, 1995; Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2000 A Thesaurus of Old English (Flora Edmonds, Christian Kay, Jane Roberts, Irené Wotherspoon) can now (2005) be accessed on-line at: http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/oethesaurus/

Edited Book Collaboration

Anglo-Saxons and the North. Essays Reflecting the Theme of the 10th Meeting of the Internatinal Society of Anglo-Saxonists in Helsinki, August, 2001 , ed. by Matti Kilpio, Leena Kahlas-Tarkka, Jane Roberts and Olga Timofeeva

The History of the Book in the West: 400AD–1455. A Library of Critical Essays: Volume I , (Ashgate, 2010). Jane Roberts and Pamela Robinson (eds.)Download PDF leaflet [110 KB].

Lectures

Guthlac of Crowland, a Saint for Middle England', Fursey Occasional Paper Number 3 (East Harling, Norfolk: Fursey Pilgrims, 2009)

‘On the disappearance of Old English', in The Kemble Lectures on Anglo-Saxon Studies 2005-2008 , ed. Alice Jorgensen, Helen Conrad O'Briain and John Scattergood (Dublin : School of English, Trinity College, Dublin, 2009), 12–44

On the development of an Old English Literary Tradition. London: King's College, 1999

Edited volumes

A Palaeographer's View : the selected writings of Julian Brown (with Janet Bately and Michelle P. Brown) London: Harvey Miller Publishers, 1993.

Alfred the Wise (with Janet L. Nelson) Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, 1997

Essays on Anglo-Saxon and Related Themes in Memory of Lynne Grundy (Jane Roberts and Janet L. Nelson) London: King's College London Medieval Studies, XVII, 2000

La3amon: Contexts, Language, and Interpretation (with R.S. Allen and Lucy Perry) London: King's College London Medieval Studies, XIX, 2002.

with A. Minnis (eds.) Text, Image, Interpretation: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature and its Insular Context in Honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin. Studies in the Early Middle Ages 18 (Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2007).

Papers in books

‘A Man “boca gleaw” and His Musings’, in Studies in Anglo-Saxon Culture Presented to Paul E. Szarmach, edited by Virginia Blanton and Helene Scheck (Tempe: MRTS, 2008) pp. 119-37

‘The fates of and in Vercelli Homily XVI: some thoughts', in Text, Language and Interpretation: Essays in Honour of Keiko Ikegami , ed. by Yoshiyuki Nakao, Shoko Ono, Naoko Shirai, Kaoru Noji and Masahiko Kanno (Tokyo: The Eihosa Ltd, 2007), 5-18

‘A Lancashire lease', in People and Texts: Relationships in Medieval Literature: Studies presented to Erik Kooper , edited by Thea Summerfield and Keith Busby, Costerus New Series 166 (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007), 161-74

‘Guthlac of Crowland and the Seals of the Cross', in The Place of the Cross in Anglo-Saxon England, ed. by Catherine E. Karkov, Sarah Larratt Keefer and Karen Louise Jolly, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (Cambridge: The Boydell Press, 2006), 113-28.

‘Aldred Signs Off from Glossing the Lindisfarne Gospels', in Scribes and Texts in Anglo-Saxon England ', ed. Alexander Rumble, Manchester Centre for Anglo-Saxon Studies (Cambridge : D. S. Brewer, 2006), 28-43

‘What did Anglo-Saxon seals seal when?', in The Power of Words: Essays in Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics in Honour of Christian J. Kay , edited by Graham D. Caie, Carole Hough and Irené Wotherspoon, Costerus New Series 163 (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2006), 131-57

‘Words fail me', in Medieval English Language Scholarship. Autobiographies by Representative Scholars in Our Discipline , ed. by Akio Oizumi and Tadao Kubouchi ( Hildesheim, Züric, New York : Georg Olms Verlag, 2005), 159-75.'

Hrothgar's "admirable courage", in Unlocking the Wordhoard: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr, ed. by Mark C. Amodio and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe (Toronto, Buffalo, London: University of Toronto Press, 2003), 240-51

'Two readings in the Guthlac homily', Early Medieval English: Texts and Interpretations, Studies Presented to Donald G. Scragg, ed. by Elaine Treharne and Susan Rosser (Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2002), 201-9

'Word Studies on Early English: Contexts for a Thesaurus of Middle English', with Louise Sylvester, in A Changing World of Words. Studies in English Historical Lexicography, Lexicology and Semantics , ed. by Javier E. Díaz Vera (Amsterdam-New York: Rodopi, 2002), 136-59.

'Hagiography and literature: the case of Guthlac of Crowland', in Mercia: An Anglo-Saxon Kingdom in Europe , ed.by Michelle P. Brown and Carol A. Farr (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 2001), 69-86.

'OE to eME: Looking forward from the Thesaurus of Old English ', in Roberts and Nelson (2000), 435-54

'The English Saints Remembered in Old English Anonymous Homilies', in Old English Prose Basic Readings , ed. by Paul E. Szarmach (New York and London: Garland Publishing Inc., 2000), 433-61.

'robbares and reuares þat ryche men despoilen', in Placing Middle English in Context, ed. Irma Taavitsainen, Terttu Nevalainen, Päivi Pahta and Matti Rissanen, The Hague: Mouton de Gruyter (2000), 235-55.

'The Old English Vocabulary of Nobility', in Nobles and Nobility, ed. by Anne J. Duggan (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000), 69-84.

'Two Notes on La3 amon's Brut ', in New Perspectives on Middle English Texts: a Festschrift for Ronald Waldron , ed. Susan Powell & Jeremy J. Smith, Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000), 75-85.

'A Thesaurus of Old English ', in Lexicology, Semantics and Lexicography in English Historical Linguistics: Selected Papers from the Fourth G.L. Brook Symposium , ed. by Julie Coleman & C.J. Kay, Amsterday: Benjamins 2000), 234-35.

'Eonde or Ende ? A Queer Kind of a Horse', in Text and Gloss. Studies in Insular Learning and Literature Presented to Joseph Donovan Pheifer , ed. Helen Conrad O'Briain, Anne Marie D'Arcy & John Scattergood (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1999), 59-65

'Shapes in the Landscape: Some Words' in Names, Places and People. An Onomastic Miscellany in Memory of John McNeal Dodgson , ed. A. R. Rumble & A. D. Mills (Paul Watkins, Stamford: 1997), 96-110 (with Lynne Grundy)

'Fela martyra "many martyrs": a Different View of Orosius's City' in Alfred the Wise ed. Roberts, Nelson and Godden (D.S.Brewer, Cambridge 1997), 155-78

'A Thesaurus of Old English ' in Dictionaries of Medieval Germanic Languages. A Survey of Current Lexicographical Projects , ed. K. H. van Dalen-Oskam, K. A. C. Depuydt, W. J. J. Pijnenburg and T. H. Schoonheim (1997), 31-40 (with C. Kay)

'A Thesaurus of Middle English' in Dictionaries of Medieval Germanic Languages. A Survey of Current Lexicographical Projects , ed. K. H. van Dalen-Oskam, K. A. C. Depuydt, W. J. J. Pijnenburg and T. H. Schoonheim (1997), 41-45 (with L. Sylvester)

'La h amon's Plain Words' in Middle English Miscellany , ed. by J. Fisiak (Motivax, Poznan 1996), 107-22.

'Some reflections on the Metre of Christ III ', in From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English: Studies presented to E.G.Stanley , ed. Malcolm Godden, Douglas Gray, Terry Hoad (Clarendon Press Oxford, 1994), 33-59

'A preliminary note on British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A. ix' in Françoise Le Saux (ed.) Text & Tradition of Layamon's 'Brut' (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1994), 1-14.

'Old English Thesaurus: Progress and plans', in Corpora across the Centuries. Proceedings of the First International Colloquium on English Diachronic Corpora. Ed. by M.Kytö, M.Rissanen and S.Wright (1993), pp. 155-61

'Anglo-Saxon Vocabulary as a reflection of material culture', in The Age of Sutton Hoo, ed. Martin Carver (The Boydell Press, Woodbridge, 1992), pp.185-202

'Henryson's Orpheus and Eurydice and the "Knight's Tale"', in Chaucer and the Fifteenth Century, ed. Julia Boffey & Janet Cowen, King's College London Medieval Studies, V, 1991, pp. 103-21

'Guthlac A : Sources and Source Hunting' in Medieval Studies presented to George Kane ed. E.D. Kennedy, R.A. Waldron and J.S. Wittig (1988), 1-18

'The Old English prose translation of Felix's Vita Sancti Guthlaci ' in Studies in Earlier Old English Prose , ed. by Paul Szarmach (1986), 363-79

Articles in journals

‘The Finnsburh Fragment, and its Lambeth provenance', Notes and Queries (June 2008), 122-24.

‘Some Thoughts on the Expression of “crippled” in Old English', Essays for Joyce Hill on her Sixtieth Birthday , edited by Mary Swan, special issue of Leeds Studies in English New Series 37 (2006), 365-78.

‘For Gertie's lunch' (Angela Thirkell as critic), Journal of the Angela Thirkell Society 23 (2005), 16-22.

‘The Rich Woman and Her Sealed Letter', ANQ 17. 1 (2004), 6-9.

'Definitions for A New Age', Poetica 62 (2004), 53-68 (with Christian Kay).

'The Rich Woman and Her Sealed Letter', ANQ 17. 1 (2004), 6-9

'The Thesaurus of Old English: a non-alphabetic lexicographical resource', Journal of Philology No. 2 (11) (2002), 48-54

'Some Aspects of Middle English in the Dictionaries', Dictionaries 23 (2002), 180-207

'The case of the miraculous hand in the Old English prose life of Guthlac', American Notes and Queries (2002), 17-22

'Mixing and matching meanings makes a thesaurus . . .', in The Grove. Studies on Medieval English Language and Literature 8 (2001), 121-44

'Some relationships between the Dream of the Rood and the Ruthwell Cross', Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature 15 (2000), 1-25

'The Historical Thesaurus as a Tool for Medievalists', Studies in Modern English 16 (2000), 1-23

'Anglo-Saxon translation: some wise wealhstodas ', Quaderni di Libri e Riviste d'Italia 35 (1998), 9-38

'On the Thesaurus of Old English', Medieval English Studies Newsletter 39 (1998), 8-21

'A Thesaurus of Old English : one snapshot of a vanished world', NOWELE 33 (1998), 133-53 [1994 informal paper updated]

'Diachrony and Synchrony: A Comparative Study of the Opening Paragraphs from Jane Eyre and Wide Sargasso Sea ', Anglistik 6:2 (1995) 64-74 (with Q. S. Tong)

'A wild goose's portrait of his country', Irish University Review 22 (1992), 305-18

'Guthlac A 624: lege biscencte ', Notes and Queries 235 (1990), 264-65

'More about milde as a royal honorific', Notes and Queries 234 (1989), 299-300 (with D.B. Tyson)

'A Preliminary "Heaven" Index for Old English' in Sources and Relations: Studies in Honour of J.E.Cross , Leeds Studies in English NS 16 (1985), 208-19

'Some Problems of a Thesaurus Maker' in Problems of Old English Lexicography: Studies in Memory of Angus Cameron , Eichstätter Beiträge 15 (1985), 229-43

'ðe hit riht ne wæs : Maldon 189b', Notes and Queries 226 (1982), 106

'The English Historical Thesarus', nottingham linguistic circular 11 (1982), 20-28

'The Exeter Book: swa is lar & ar to spowendre spræce gelæded ', Dutch Quarterly Review 11 (1981), 302-19

'Old English un -"very" and Unferth', English Studies 61 (1980), 282-92

'Towards an Old English Thesaurus', Poetica 9 (1978), 56-72

'St Bartholomew's Day: A Problem Resolved?', Medium Ævum 46 (1977), 16-19

'Guthlac A, B, and C?', Medium Ævum 42 (1973), 43-46

'A Metrical Examination of the poems Guthlac A and Guthlac B ', Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 71.C.4 (1971), 91-137

'Traces of Unhistorical Gender Congruence in a late Old English Manuscript', English Studies 51 (1970), 30-47

'An Inventory of early Guthlac materials', Mediaeval Studies 32 (1970), 193-233

'St Bertellin of Stafford', The Downside Review 86 (1968), 56-67

'Hamlet , III.ii.146', Review of English Studies , n.s . 18 (1967), 40-45

'"SCIRWERED": Beowulf 496a', Notes and Queries 212 (1967), 204-5

Evidences for witchcraft in Anglo-Saxon England', Medium Ævum 32 (1963), 99-116