Joanna Perks

Supervisor: Andrew Orchard

Research Interests: Anglo-Saxon diplomatic texts, Old English and early medieval Latin prose, textual transmission, Anglo-Saxon palaeography, pre-Conquest history (8th - early 11th centuries).

Doctoral Research: My thesis concerns the prose style and vocabulary of Anglo-Saxon diplomas, focussing in particular on the terminology of their boundary clauses. I aim to examine the factors which contribute to linguistic differences in these documents (including archival or scriptorial conventions, temporal development, and geographic variation), and the extent to which such factors are co-dependent.