About
I am a PhD Candidate in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Adelaide Australia. My research focuses on cultural memory, historical narrative, and Anglo-Scandinavian acculturation in the tenth-thirteenth centuries, with a particular focus on the history of early medieval England as portrayed in the sagas of Icelanders.Education
[2019-Present] Flinders University, Adelaide
PhD – English/History
Thesis: Anglo-Saxon Kings’ Lives in Old Norse Literary Cultures: The Transmission and Evolution of Narrative
[2015-2017] University of New England, Armidale
Graduate Certificate in Classical Languages (Latin)
[2015-2017] University of New England, Armidale
Master of History
Thesis: Cultures of Punishment – Brutality and the Body in Anglo-Scandinavian England
[2000-2003] University of Sydney
Bachelor of Arts (Studies of Religion)Work Shared in CORE
Articles
Other Publications
Matthew Firth, ‘Æthelred II ‘the Unready’ and the Role of Kingship in
Gunnlaugs saga Ormstungu,’
The Court Historian 25 (no.1, 2020), 1-14 (
free eprint).
Forthcoming:
Matthew Firth, ‘The Character of the Treacherous Woman in the passiones of Early Medieval English Royal Martyrs,’
Royal Studies Journal (2020).
Memberships
Viking Society for Northern Research
Royal Studies Network
Australian Early Medieval Association
Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
