Article
Saltair na Rann XXXV-LXX: The Story of Moses
Murdoch B (2019) Saltair na Rann XXXV-LXX: The Story of Moses. Eriu, 69, pp. 1-40. https://doi.org/10.3318/ERIU.2019.69.3
Professor Brian Murdoch
Emeritus Professor
Literature and Languages - Division University of Stirling, Stirling, FK9 4LA
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About me
About me
I retired from teaching in 2007 (having been appointed in 1972), but am still involved with the School and with research as Emeritus Professor. My major interests are in the fields of medieval German, Celtic and other literatures, especially medieval apocrypha, and also literature of the two world wars. After retiring I published a book on the apocryphal Adambooks (OUP), and edited with an introduction a collections of essays on Remarque's "All Quiet on the Western Front" for the Salem Press Critical Insights series (2010). I published a chapter for a handbook on Medieval Latin (OUP) on the relationship with vernacular languages, and several articles or translations for Festschriften and for encylopaedic works . A book on a medieval saint's legend -- that of the incestuous saint Gregorius -- appeared in 2012 (also for OUP). I have also completed an online bibliographical study of biblical apocrypha for OUP, updated in 2019, and various articles for essay collections, mainly on the First World War. A collection of my papers on War literature appeared in 2015. I continue to work as a literary translator (of Remarque and others), a recent publication being that of Walter Flex's war novel, The Wanderer Between the Two Worlds. A new translation of the sequel to All Quiet on the Western Front, The Way Back, appeared in 2019. A study of The Reception of the Legend of Hero and Leander appeared in Brill's Companions to Classical Reception series also in 2019. A new book, The Fortunes of Everyman in Twentieth-Century German Drama. War, Death. Morality appeared in 2022 (Camden House, USA). A translation of the poems of Catullus appeared in 2023 (Choir Press) and a volume of translations of medieval German political tales will appear in 2024 (Camden House). Articles on Scott, war poetry, and the myth of Orpheus have appeared recently or are in press for 2024. I am a member of the editorial board of the series Medieval and Renaissance Authors and Texts (Brill, Leiden). BA (Exeter) PhD, LittD (Cambridge), FRHistS, AMusTCL
Research
Medieval apocryphal literature Literature of the World Wars Comparative literature Literary translation
Outputs (17)
Outputs
Article
The Middle English Iacob and Iosep and the Medieval Popular Bible
Murdoch B (2017) The Middle English Iacob and Iosep and the Medieval Popular Bible. English Studies, 98 (8), pp. 846-865. https://doi.org/10.1080/0013838X.2016.1227135
Book Review
Jakob Ruf. life, work and studies
Murdoch B (2009) Jakob Ruf. life, work and studies [JakobRuf.Leben,WerkundStudien]. Review of:
Keller, Hildegard Elisabeth,ed. Zurich:Neue
Zürcher Zeitung, 2008. 5 vols.(319+774+707+1019+723pp.), plus audioCD
and multimedia CD.. German Quarterly, 82 (1), pp. 112-114.
Article
For Empire, England's Boys, and the Pageant of War: Women's War Poetry in the Year of the Somme
Murdoch B (2009) For Empire, England's Boys, and the Pageant of War: Women's War Poetry in the Year of the Somme. English, 58 (220), pp. 29-53. https://doi.org/10.1093/english/efn039
Book Review
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: The Apocrypha
Murdoch B (2009) Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: The Apocrypha. Review of: Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture: The Apocrypha. Edited by Frederick M. Biggs. Kalamazoo, MI: Medieval Institute Publications, xx + 117pp, 2007. ISBN 978 1 58044 119 3. Journal of Theological Studies, 60 (1), pp. 311-312.
Book Review
Murdoch B (2008) Adomnan and the Holy Places. The Perceptions of an Insular Monk on the Locations of the Biblical Drama. Review of: Adomnán and the Holy Places. The Perceptions of an Insular Monk on the Locations of the Biblical Drama. By Thomas O’Loughlin. . London and New York: T. & T. Clark, 2007. xx + 348pp.. Literature and Theology, 22 (4), pp. 491-493. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn043
Book Review
Murdoch B (2008) Ancrene Wisse. A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402, with Variants front Other Manuscripts. Review of: Ancrene Wisse. A Corrected Edition of the Text in Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 402, with Variants from Other Manuscripts. Edited by Bella Millett, , drawing on the uncompleted edition by E. J. Dobson, , with a glossary and additional notes by Richard Dance. . Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 2005–6. 2 vols. lxxiv + 254 and lvii + 477 pp.. Literature and Theology, 22 (4), pp. 493-494. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn044
Book Review
Adamgirk': The Adam book of Arak'el of Siwnik'
Murdoch B (2008) Adamgirk': The Adam book of Arak'el of Siwnik'. Review of: Adamgirk': The Adam Book of Arak'el of Siwnik', Michael E. Stone, OUP Oxford, 2007, 348pp. 0199204772. Journal of Jewish Studies, 59 (1), pp. 144-146.
Book Review
Murder, Manners, Mystery. Reflections on Faith in Contemporary Detective Fiction
Murdoch B (2008) Murder, Manners, Mystery. Reflections on Faith in Contemporary Detective Fiction. Review of: Murder, Manners, Mystery. Reflections on Faith in Contemporary Detective Fiction. By Peter C. Erb. . London: SCM Press, 2007. 150 pp. 978-0334041078. Literature and Theology, 22 (2), pp. 246-248.
Book Review
Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians. The Fantasy of the Real
Murdoch B (2008) Chesterton and Tolkien as Theologians. The Fantasy of the Real. Review of:
Alison Milbank, Continuum International Publishing Group - T & T C, 2007, 176pp. 0567040941. Literature and Theology, 22 (2), pp. 248-252.
Book Review
Transforming Talk. The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England
Murdoch B (2008) Transforming Talk. The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England. Review of: Transforming Talk. The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England. By Susan E. Phillips. . University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2007. x+238 pp. 978-0271029948. Literature and Theology, 22 (1), pp. 122-124. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn003
Book Review
Murdoch B (2008) The Golden Legend 2. Review of: Gilte Legende II. Edited by Richard Hamer, with the assistance of Vida Russell. Oxford: Oxford University Press for the Early English Text Society, 2007. x + 537 pp.. Literature and Theology, 22 (1), pp. 124-125. https://doi.org/10.1093/litthe/frn004
Article
Murdoch B (2007) Serving the church: the early middle high German 'Cantilena de Conversione Sancti Pauli' and the Colmar manuscript. Neophilologus, 91 (3), pp. 459-472. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11061-006-9017-9
Book Review
Murdoch B (2007) Satan. A biography. Review of: Satan. A Biography. By Henry Ansgar Kelly.Satan. A Biography. By Henry Ansgar Kelly, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv + 360. isbn 0 521 84339 1.. Journal of Theological Studies, 58 (2), pp. 681-686. https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/fll138
Book Review
Gemstone of paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival
Murdoch B (2007) Gemstone of paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram's Parzival. Review of: Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival. Murphy, G. Ronald, S.J. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2006. 241 pp. ISBN: 9780195306392. German Quarterly, 80 (3), pp. 392-393. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1756-1183.2007.tb00081.x
Book Review
The life of Adam and Eve in Greek: A critical edition
Murdoch B (2007) The life of Adam and Eve in Greek: A critical edition. Review of: The Life of Adam and Eve in Greek: A Critical Edition. By Johannes Tromp. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2005. Pp. viii + 206. isbn 9 0041 4317 3.. Journal of Theological Studies, 58 (1), pp. 173-176.
Edited Book
Memory and memorials. The commemorative century
Kidd W & Murdoch B (eds.) (2004) Memory and memorials. The commemorative century. Aldershot: Ashgate. http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9780754607359