About
I’m Lecturer in Digital Palaeography with the Institute for Digital Humanities at the University of Göttingen. My research focuses on the script of the early middle ages, in particular Caroline minuscule.
If you want to get in touch, drop me an email: anna.dorofeeva [at] uni-goettingen [dot] de. Education
2016: PhD in History, University of Cambridge
2011: MPhil in Medieval History, University of Cambridge
2009: BA in French and German, University of Bristol Work Shared in CORE
Articles
Book chapters
Book reviews
- Review: Scriptorium. Wesen – Funktion – Eigenheiten. Comité international de paléographie latine, XVIII. Kolloquium. St. Gallen 11.–14. September 2013. Veröffentlichungen der Kommission für die Herausgabe der mittelalterlichen Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz, ed. A. Nievergelt et al., Munich 2015 (C.H. Beck). 584 pp.
- Review: Felice Lifshitz, Religious Women in Early Carolingian Francia. A Study of Manuscript Transmission and Monastic Culture, New York: Fordham University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-8232-5687-7, 368pp.
- Review: Julia Becker, Tino Licht, Stefan Weinfurter (Hg.), Karolingische Klöster. Wissenstransfer und kulturelle Innovation, Berlin, New York (De Gruyter) 2015, VI–307 S. (Materiale Textkulturen, 4), ISBN 9783110371239, EUR 89,95.
Other Publications
Articles
London Institute of Historical Research Pollard Prize winner 2016: ‘Miscellanies, Christian reform and early medieval encyclopaedism: a reconsideration of the pre-bestiary Physiologus manuscripts’, Historical Research 90:250 (November 2017), 665–82.
‘Strategies of Knowledge Organisation in Early Medieval Latin Miscellanies: The Example of Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Clm 14388’, in Writing the Early Medieval West, ed. Elina Screen and Charles West (Cambridge University Press, April 2018), 146–68.
‘Visualizing codicologically and textually complex manuscripts’, Journal for Manuscript Studies 4.2 (2019), pp. 334–60.
‘Reading Early Medieval Miscellanies’, Proceedings of the XXth Colloquium of the Comité International de Paléographie Latine, Bibliologia (Brepols, forthcoming in 2021).
‘What is a vademecum? Reflections on early medieval compilation and intellectual authority’, Entangled Manuscripts, ed. A. Dorofeeva and M. Kelly (Gracchi Books, forthcoming in 2021).
‘A reconsideration of the function of ciphers in early medieval manuscripts’, Crafting Knowledge in the Early Medieval Book: Practices of Collecting and Concealing, ed. S. O’Sullivan and C. Arthur (Brepols, forthcoming in 2021).
‘Power and Resource Regimes: A Study of the Impact of Social Relationships on the Function of Resources’, with Alexander Krey, in Discourses of Weakness and Resource Regimes. Trajectories of a New Research Program, ed. Iwo Amelung et al. (Campus Verlag, 2018), pp. 255–92.
As editor/translator
A Partial Survey of Centres Writing Caroline Minuscule, c. 700–1000, University of Pennsylvania Schoenberg Center for Manuscript Studies, litteracarolina.upenndigitalscholarship.org (2014–present).
Copy-editor and translator of Digital Philology and Medieval Studies in the German-Speaking World, ed. Christopher Young and Mark Chinca (Digital Philology. A Journal of Medieval Cultures 6.2, 2017).
Encyclopaedia articles
‘Lanfranc of Bec’ in the Middle Ages and Reformation, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 15: Kalam – Lectio, ed. Allison et al. (September 2017).
‘Incunabula of the Bible’, ‘Jacob’, ‘Jacob’s Ladder’, ‘Jericho’, ‘Jerome’ in the Middle Ages and Reformation, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 13: Integrity–Jesuit Order, ed. Allison et al. (August 2016).
‘Gift’ and ‘Good’ in the Middle Ages and Reformation, Encyclopedia of the Bible and Its Reception. Vol. 10: Genocide–Hakkoz, ed. Allison et al. (December 2014).
