Muir, Bernard J(ames) 1951-

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Muir, Bernard J(ames) 1951-

PERSONAL: Born March 3, 1951, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. Education: University of Toronto, B.A. (with honors), 1973, M.A., 1974, Ph.D., 1981; Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, M.S.L., 1976.

ADDRESSES: Home—38 York St., Airport, Western Australia 3042, Australia. Office—Department of English, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia. E-mail—[email protected].

CAREER: University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria. Australia, lecturer, 1982-85, senior lecturer, 1986-91, reader in English, 1992-. Medieval Multimedia: Digitizing the Middle Ages (Internet Web site), director.

MEMBER: International Society of Anglo-Saxonists.

AWARDS, HONORS: First prize, Australian Awards for Excellence in Tertiary Educational Publishing, 2000, for "Ductus: An Online Course in Paleography."

WRITINGS:

(Editor) A Pre-Conquest English Prayer-Book (BL MSS Cotton Galba A.xiv and Nero A.ii), Boydell Press (Wolfeboro, NH), 1988.

Leod: Six Old English Poems; A Handbook, Gordon & Breach (New York, NY), 1989.

(Editor, with Margaret M. Manion) Medieval Texts and Images: Studies of Manuscripts from the Middle Ages. Harwood Academic Publishers (Philadelphia, PA), 1991.

(Compiler) The Exeter Book: A Bibliography, University of Exeter Press (Exeter, Devon, England), 1992.

(Editor) The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501, two volumes, University of Exeter Press (Exeter, Devon, England), 1994, 2nd edition published as The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry, 2004.

(Editor, with Margaret M. Manion) The Art of the Book: Its Place in Medieval Worship, University of Exeter Press (Exeter, Devon, England), 1998.

(Editor) Reading Texts and Images: Essays on Medieval and Renaissance Art and Patronage in Honour of Margaret M. Manion, University of Exeter Press (Exeter, Devon, England), 2002.

Editor (with Andrew J. Turner) of facsimile edition of The Life of Saint Wilfrid by Edmer of Canterbury: A Twelfth-Century Biography. University of Exeter Press (Exeter, Devon, England). Editor of multimedia productions and digital facsimiles for the Internet Web site Medieval Multimedia: Digitizing the Middle Ages, including "Ductus: An Online Course in Paleography," c. 2000; and "MS Junius 11," Bodleian Library (Oxford, England), 2004.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Medium Aevum, spring, 1993, review of The Exeter Book: A Bibliography, p. 172; spring, 1996, Carolyne Larrington, review of The Exeter Anthology of Old English Poetry: An Edition of Exeter Dean and Chapter MS 3501, p. 128.