About
I am a priest in the Church of England and independent scholar of early medieval church history. Education
2019-2021: Post-doctoral training in Theology and Ministry, Cranmer Hall, St John’s College, Durham (UK)
2013-2019: PhD, Faculty of Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (NL)
2011-2013: MA, Research in Religion and Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (NL)
2012-2013: Contract courses, Old English Language and Literature, Universiteit Leiden (NL)
2010-2012: MA, Theology, Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam (NL)
2006-2009: BA, Theology and Religious Studies, Evangelische Theologische Faculteit, Leuven (BE) Publications
Miriam Adan Jones, ‘Wilfrid’s Network Bishopric and the Primacy of York: Writing Episcopacy in Stephen’s Life of Wilfrid’, Early Medieval Europe 32.2 (2024), 1-21.
Miriam Adan Jones, ‘The English Language, Christian Instruction and National Identity: Early Medieval Precedents and their Early Modern Uses’, Koinonia, n.s., 77 (2022), 44-55.
Miriam Jones, ‘De Engelse wortels van Willibrord: vergeten en herinnerd in de vroege middeleeuwen,’ in A. ten Klooster, A. Smeets and P.-B. Smit (eds), Willibrord door de eeuwen: Botsende culturen en wisselende perspectieven op de apostel van de Lage Landen (Berne: Berne Media, 2018), 33-44.
Miriam Adan Jones, ‘Conversion as Convergence: Gregory the Great Confronting Pagan and Jewish Influences in Anglo-Saxon Christianity’, in M. Sághy and E. Schoolman (eds), Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-8th Centuries), CEU Medievalia 18 (Budapest: CEU Press, 2017), 151-163.
Miriam Adan Jones, ‘The Language of Baptism in Early Anglo-Saxon England: The Case for Old English’, Studies in Church History 53 (2017): 39-50.
Miriam Adan Jones, ‘A Chosen Missionary People? Willibrord, Boniface, and the Election of the Angli‘, Medieval Worlds 3 (2016): 98-115.
M.A. Jones, ‘Origen’s Authority: Exegetical Borrowings and Doctrinal Departures in Gregory the Great’s Expositio in Canticum canticorum’, in A.-C. Jacobsen (ed.), Origeniana Undecima: Origen and Origenism in the History of Western Thought, BETL 279 (Leuven: Peeters, 2016): 575-585. Projects
My doctoral project, ‘Catholics of the English Race’ explored the overlap between ethnic and ecclesiological categories in the English kingdoms of the seventh and eighth centuries. This work was funded by a PhDs in the Humanities grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and supervised by prof. dr. Hagit Amirav and prof. dr. Paul van Geest.
