Profile

Biography

Linne Mooney is our Professor of Medieval English Palaeography, and active in both the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies, based at King's Manor.

Her research focuses on the dissemination of late medieval English literature in manuscript and early print. She has published numerous editions of medieval texts, collections of essays, and reference works, studies on computer applications to manuscript studies and medieval science; but her current research centres on late medieval English scribes, their identities, the places and conditions of their work, and their patrons.

In 2004 she won international acclaim for discovering the identity of the scribe, Adam Pinkhurst, who worked for Chaucer. She was PI for a major AHRC research grant for 2007-2011, together with Dr Simon Horobin (Oxford) to discover the identity of other scribes who made the first copies of Middle English literature in the late fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. The results of this research on late medieval scribes is available on the website www.medievalscribes.com, launched in early 2011. Together with Prof. Daniel Mosser of Virginia Tech and Dr Elizabeth Solopova of Oxford, Professor Mooney is preparing a web-based searchable index of Middle English Verse, the iMEV, currently available as work in progress at http://www.cddc.vt.edu/host/imev/.

One of three officers of the Early Book Society, Professor Mooney is associate editor of The Journal of the Early Book Society.

Research

Overview

Linne Mooney's research interests include editing of Middle English texts, manuscript studies, studies of authorship and distribution of Middle English texts, and new historical studies of Middle English authors and texts.

Prospective students may contact her by email at linne.mooney@york.ac.uk to discuss their ideas for post-graduate research projects.

Publications

Selected publications

• Design and Distribubtion of Late Medieval Manuscripts in England, edd Margaret Connolly and Linne R. Mooney. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 2008.
• 'Some New Light on Thomas Hoccleve', Studies in the Age of Chaucer 29 (2007), 293-340.
• James I of Scotland's The Kingis Quair and other Prison Poems, edd Linne R. Mooney and Mary-Jo Arn. Kalamazoo, MI: The Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages (TEAMS), 2005.
• 'Chaucer's Scribe', Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies 81 (2006), 97-138.
• 'A Piers Plowman Manuscript by the Hengwrt / Ellesmere Scribe and its Implications for London Standard English', with Simon Horobin, Studies in the Age of Chaucer 26 (2004), 65-112.
• 'The Beryn Scribe and his Texts: Evidence for Multiple-Copy Production of Manuscripts in Fifteenth-Century England', with Lister M. Matheson, The Library, 7th ser., 4 (2003), pp. 347-70.
• 'John Shirley's Heirs: The Scribes of Manuscript Literary Miscellanies Produced in London in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century', Yearbook of English Studies, Special Number 33 (2003): Medieval and Early Modern Literary Miscellanies, ed. Phillipa Hardman, pp. 182-98.
• 'Scribes and Booklets of Trinity College, Cambridge, MSS R.3.19 and R.3.21', in Middle English Poetry: Texts and Traditions: Essays in Honour of Derek Pearsall, ed. Alistair Minnis. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell & Brewer, 2001. Pp. 241-66.
• 'Professional Scribes?: Identifying English Scribes Who Had a Hand in More Than One Manuscript', in New Directions in Medieval Manuscript Studies, ed. Derek Pearsall. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000. Pp. 131-41.
• 'A New Manuscript by the Hammond Scribe Discovered by Jeremy Griffiths', in The English Medieval Book: Essays in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths, edd. Tony Edwards, Ralph Hanna and Vincent Gillespie. London: British Library, 2000. Pp. 113-23.
• 'Manuscript Fragments of Middle English Verse', in Interpreting and Collecting Fragments of Medieval Books, ed. Linda L. Brownrigg and Peggy Smith. Los Altos Hills, CA: Anderson-Lovelace/Red Gull Press, 2000. Pp. 137-50.
• 'Chaucer and Interest in Astronomy at the Court of Richard II', in Chaucer in Perspective: Middle English Essays in Honour of Norman Blake, ed. Geoff Lester. Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, 1999. Pp. 139-60.
• The Kalendarium of John Somer. The Chaucer Library series. University of Georgia Press, 1998.?
• The Chronicle of John Somer, OFM, edd. Jeremy Catto and Linne Mooney. Royal Historical Society, Camden Society, fifth series, vol. 10, Chronology, Conquest and Conflict in Mediaeval England, Camden Miscellany XXXIV (1998), 197-285.
• '"A Woman's Reply to her Lover" and Four Other New Courtly Love Lyrics in Cambridge, Trinity College MS R.3.19', Medium Aevum 67 (1998), 235-56.
• The Index of Middle English Prose: Handlist XI: Manuscripts Containing Middle English Prose in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge. Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1995.
• 'A Middle English Text on the Seven Liberal Arts', Speculum: Journal of Medieval Studies 68 (1993), 1027-1052.
• 'The Cock and the Clock: Telling Time in Chaucer's Day', Studies in the Age of Chaucer 15 (1993), 91-109.

External activities

Memberships

• Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
• Member, Medieval Academy of America, New Chaucer Society, EETS, AMARC, John Gower Society, William Langland Society.
• One of collaborative team of researchers in the Medieval Manuscripts Research Consortium, sharing information on funded projects relating to medieval manuscript studies and hosting workshops and creating training resources for post-graduate research in original medieval sources, together with Jeremy Smith and Alison Wiggin at University of Glasgow, John Thompson at Queen's University Belfast, Wendy Scase at the University of Birmingham, Simon Horobin at Oxford University, Ian Johnson at University of St Andrews, and Orietta DaRold at University of Leicester.

Editorial duties

• Associate editor of The Journal of the Early Book Society, and one of three officers of the Early Book Society.
• Editorial Board of Middle English Texts.