Eleanor Parker (historian)

Eleanor Parker is a British historian and medievalist.[1]

For the American actress, see Eleanor Parker.
Eleanor Parker
NationalityBritish
Alma materUniversity of Oxford
Known forColumnist at History Today
Scientific career
ThesisAnglo-Scandinavian literature in post-Conquest England (2013)
Websitehttps://aclerkofoxford.blogspot.com/

Career

Parker read Old and Middle English and Old Norse Literature at the University of Oxford. She was lecturer in Medieval English Literature at Brasenose College, at the University of Oxford. She is a columnist at History Today.[2] In May 2018, she published her first book, Dragon Lords: The History and Legends of Viking England.[3][4]

Parker started her blog, "A Clerk of Oxford", in 2008, whilst an undergraduate student at Oxford.[5] The blog won the 2015 Longman-History Today award for Digital History.[6] It was described as "unrivalled in bringing in outsiders to understand the reality of everything from the Dwarves' treasure to God's Darling" and "an orchard of golden apples" by Christopher Howse in The Daily Telegraph.[7] In 2019, Parker read from the Knútsdrápur, and interpreted its meaning, in a programme for BBC World Service.[8]

References
  1. "Dr Eleanor Parker - Brasenose College, Oxford". www.bnc.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  2. "Eleanor Parker | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  3. Thurber, Bev (2019-01-18). "19.08.10 Parker, Dragon Lords". The Medieval Review. ISSN 1096-746X.
  4. "Dragon Lords: Dr Eleanor Parker on England's Viking Myths and Ragnar Lothbrok | All About History". www.historyanswers.co.uk. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  5. "A Clerk of Oxford: About this blog". A Clerk of Oxford. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  6. "A Clerk of Oxford | History Today". www.historytoday.com. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  7. Howse, Christopher (2015-07-04). "A Clerk of Oxford's guide to a bright old world". ISSN 0307-1235. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
  8. "BBC World Service – The Forum, Cnut: England's Viking king, The Viking's bloodthirsty Skaldic poetry". BBC. Retrieved 2020-02-05.


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