Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the

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at the

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from 1991 until 2013.

Biography

From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B.A. in English at

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; he then continued with several postgraduate studies until 1969. In 1970 he obtained a Ph.D. from

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for a dissertation which was an edition of

Ælfric Ælfric (Old English ', Middle English ''Elfric'') is an Anglo-Saxon given name, consisting of the elements ''ælf'', "elf" and ''ric'', "a powerful person, ruler". Churchmen * Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 955–c. 1010), late 10th century Anglo-Sax ...

's Second Series of ''Catholic Homilies'' under the supervision of Professor P. A. M. Clemoes. His academic appointments include: *1969–1972: Junior Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge *1970–1971: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cornell University *1972–1975: University Lecturer, Department of English Language, Liverpool University *1976–1991: Fellow and lecturer in English, Exeter College, Oxford, and CUF Lecturer in the Faculty of English, Oxford University *1991–2013:

in the University of Oxford and professorial fellow of

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. His interests include: Alfredian prose,

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Ælfric of Eynsham Ælfric of Eynsham (; ; ) was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres. He is also known variously as '' ...

, and

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. He is an editor of the academic journal ''

Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon England or early medieval England covers the period from the end of Roman Empire, Roman imperial rule in Roman Britain, Britain in the 5th century until the Norman Conquest in 1066. Compared to modern England, the territory of the ...

''.

Honours

Godden was elected

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(FBA) in 2009. He delivered the 2009 Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture.text
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Bibliography

*''Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: the Second Series, Text'' (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 5.) Oxford: University Press, 1979 *''The Making of Piers Plowman''. London, 1990 *''The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature''; edited with M. Lapidge. Cambridge: University Press, 1991 *''From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English: studies presented to E. G. Stanley''; edited with D. Gray and T. Hoad. Oxford, 1994 *''Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: the First Series, Text''; ed. P. Clemoes. (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 17.) Oxford: University Press, 1997 *''Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary and Glossary''. (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 18.) Oxford: University Press, 2000 *''The Old English Boethius: an edition of the Old English versions of Boethius’s "De Consolatione Philosophiae"''; edited with S. Irvine. 2 vols. Oxford: University Press, 2009

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External links

Oxford biography
{{DEFAULTSORT:Godden, Malcolm Reginald 1945 births Living people Anglo-Saxon studies scholars Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge Fellows of Exeter College, Oxford Fellows of Pembroke College, Oxford People from Devizes Rawlinson and Bosworth Professors of Anglo-Saxon Fellows of the British Academy