Dr Martha Baldon

Lecturer

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2626

Email

mcb9@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 001

Location

Kennedy Hall

 

Research areas

My research interests include Old French and Middle English Arthurian romance, sensory experience and manipulation in medieval narratives, the transmission of romance narratives, Middle English alliterative poetry, and emotions in medieval literature. I have published on the Old French and Middle English Grail narratives, focussing on a range of topics, including sight, space, and selfhood. My current research project, entitled 'Illusion, Delusion, and Hallucination: Exploring the Boundaries of Sensory Manipulation in Old French and Middle English Literature’, focuses on the relationship between sensory manipulation and individual’s emotional response to a given stimulus in a range of texts from the High and Late Middle Ages.

Selected publications

• Personal piety and ‘outward semyng’: self and identity in Thomas Malory’s ‘Tale of the Sankgreal’

  Baldon, M., 1 Jun 2024, In: Arthurian Literature. 39, p. 104-138 35 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Sensory reading practices: touching the pages of Manchester John Rylands Library MS French 1

  Baldon, M., 2024, (Accepted/In press) In: Arthuriana.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access

  Somatic stimulation and the Grail: experiencing London British Library Royal MS 14.E.iii as a haptic interface

  Baldon, M., 21 Oct 2024, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Exemplaria. Latest Articles, 27 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• The Bristol Merlin: Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval Fragment (Review)

  Baldon, M., 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Review of English Studies.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Holy Digital Grail: A Medieval Book on the Internet (Review)

  Baldon, M., 1 Dec 2022, In: The Medieval Review.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Book/Film/Article review › peer-review

• Open access

  Misunderstanding, Misperception and Mistakes: the logic of the Grail in Old French Arthurian romance and Thomas Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal

  Baldon, M., Mar 2022, In: Neophilologus. 106, p. 1-23 23 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Optical illusion, illusory objects, and the quest of the Holy Grail in the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal and Perlesvaus

  Baldon, M., 30 Jun 2022, The Arthurian world. Coldham-Fussell, V., Edlich-Muth, M. & Ward, R. (eds.). Abingdon, Oxon: Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, p. 292-307 16 p. (Routledge worlds).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• ‘Perceiving the way: Sacred Spaces and Imaginary Pilgrimage in the Vulgate Cycle Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal’

  Baldon, M., 2020, In: Arthurian Literature. XXXVI, p. 57-78 22 p.

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

 

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