Dr Rafael J Pascual
I specialize in medieval English language and literature (with a particular focus on Old English poetry). At Pembroke, I teach Old and Middle English literature (which I also teach or have taught at other Oxford colleges), and I lecture on the English language and its history in the English Faculty.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Granada (2014), with a dissertation on the dating and textual criticism of Beowulf, on the strength of which I gained a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University. I am the co-editor, with Leonard Neidorf and Tom Shippey, of Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), and one of the contributors to The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014). My articles on Old and Middle English alliterative poetry have appeared in journals such as Medium Ævum, English Studies, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Neophilologus, Studia Neophilologica, Notes and Queries, and ANQ. I have also contributed to the Old and Middle English sections of The Year's Work in English Studies.
My dissertation received the 2013–2014 Extraordinary Doctorate Award. In 2017, I won the 'Excellence in Knowledge' Research Award of Grupo Caja Rural (one of Spain's leading banking groups) for my contributions to medieval English scholarship. Some of the areas on which I have published peer-reviewed essays include:
- The continuity between Old and Middle English alliterative poetry
- Monsters in Beowulf and Anglo-Latin literature
- Old Norse influence on the language of Beowulf
- Humour and heroic legend in Beowulf
- Old English metre and poetics
- The editing of Old English poetical manuscripts
- The dating of Old English verse
- Ælfric of Eynsham's rhythmical prose
- Medievalism
Books
Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre, ed. Rachel A. Burns and Rafael J. Pascual. Forthcoming from Arc Humanities Press.
The Study of Style: Essays in English Language and Literature in Honour of José Luis Martínez-Dueñas, ed. Miguel Ángel Martínez-Cabeza, Rafael J. Pascual, Belén Soria, and Rocío G. Sumillera. Granada: EUG, 2019.
Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk, ed. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016.
Essays
‘The Fall of the King and the Composition of Neo-Old English Verse’. Forthcoming in Old English Medievalism: The Reception and Recreation of Old English in the 20th and 21st Centuries, ed. Rachel Fletcher, Thijs Porck, and Oliver M. Traxel
'Hrothgar's Warhorse and the Audience of Beowulf'. Medium Ævum 90 (2021): 123–132.
'Beowulf 501b and the Authority of Old English Poetic Manuscripts'. Neophilologus 105 (2021): 425–436.
'Beowulf 1889b, Andreas 1221b and Old English Poetic Style'. Studia Neophilologica. 93 (2021): 12–23.
'Old English Dithematic Names and the Reliability of Sieversian Metrics'. English Studies 101 (2020): 259–272.
'The Study of Old English Metrical Style'. In Miguel Ángel Martínez-Cabeza, Rafael J. Pascual, Belén Soria, and Rocío G. Sumillera (eds), The Study of Style: Essays in English Language and Literature in Honour of José Luis Martínez-Dueñas, Granada: EUG, 2019, pp. 29–39.
'Old Norse Influence on the Language of Beowulf: A Reassessment'. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 31 (2019): 298–322 (with L. Neidorf).
'Bliss’s Rule and Old English Metrics'. ANQ: A Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 32 (2019): 209–213.
'A Possible Emendation of Beowulf 1042a'. Notes & Queries 66.2 (2019): 166–168.
'Two Possible Emendations of Beowulf 2088a'. Notes & Queries 66.1 (2019): 5–8.
'Alliterative Metre and Medieval English Literary History'. Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 40 (2018): 221–230.
'Oral Tradition and the History of English Alliterative Verse'. Studia Neophilologica 89 (2017): 250–260.
'Manuscript Evidence and Metrical Authenticity: A Response to Seiichi Suzuki'. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 29.1 (2017): 85–99.
'Sievers, Bliss, Fulk, and Old English Metrical Theory'. In Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk, eds. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016), 17–33.
'Old English Metrical History and the Composition of Widsið'. Neophilologus 100 (2016): 289–302.
'On a Crux in Beowulf: The Alliteration of Finite Verbs and the Scribal Understanding of Metre'. Studia Neophilologica 87 (2015): 171–185.
'Ælfric’s Rhythmical Prose and the Study of Old English Metre'. English Studies 95 (2014): 803–823.
'The Language of Beowulf and the Conditioning of Kaluza's Law'. Neophilologus 98 (2014): 657–673 (with L. Neidorf).
'Material Monsters and Semantic Shifts'. In The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment, ed. Leonard Neidorf (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014), 202–218.
'Three-position Verses and the Metrical Practice of the Beowulf Poet'. SELIM 20 (2013–2014): 49–79.
Reviews
Sara M. Pons-Sanz, The Lexical Effects of Anglo-Scandinavian Linguistic Contact on Old English, SELIM 19 (2012): 183–188.
Jun Terasawa, Old English Metre: An Introduction, SELIM 18 (2011): 197–206.
Dr Rafael J Pascual
I specialize in medieval English language and literature (with a particular focus on Old English poetry). At Pembroke, I teach Old and Middle English literature (which I also teach or have taught at other Oxford colleges), and I lecture on the English language and its history in the English Faculty.
I received my Ph.D. from the University of Granada (2014), with a dissertation on the dating and textual criticism of Beowulf, on the strength of which I gained a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at Harvard University. I am the co-editor, with Leonard Neidorf and Tom Shippey, of Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2016), and one of the contributors to The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2014). My articles on Old and Middle English alliterative poetry have appeared in journals such as Medium Ævum, English Studies, Journal of Germanic Linguistics, Neophilologus, Studia Neophilologica, Notes and Queries, and ANQ. I have also contributed to the Old and Middle English sections of The Year's Work in English Studies.
My dissertation received the 2013–2014 Extraordinary Doctorate Award. In 2017, I won the 'Excellence in Knowledge' Research Award of Grupo Caja Rural (one of Spain's leading banking groups) for my contributions to medieval English scholarship. Some of the areas on which I have published peer-reviewed essays include:
- The continuity between Old and Middle English alliterative poetry
- Monsters in Beowulf and Anglo-Latin literature
- Old Norse influence on the language of Beowulf
- Humour and heroic legend in Beowulf
- Old English metre and poetics
- The editing of Old English poetical manuscripts
- The dating of Old English verse
- Ælfric of Eynsham's rhythmical prose
- Medievalism
Books
Tradition and Innovation in Old English Metre, ed. Rachel A. Burns and Rafael J. Pascual. Forthcoming from Arc Humanities Press.
The Study of Style: Essays in English Language and Literature in Honour of José Luis Martínez-Dueñas, ed. Miguel Ángel Martínez-Cabeza, Rafael J. Pascual, Belén Soria, and Rocío G. Sumillera. Granada: EUG, 2019.
Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk, ed. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016.
Essays
‘The Fall of the King and the Composition of Neo-Old English Verse’. Forthcoming in Old English Medievalism: The Reception and Recreation of Old English in the 20th and 21st Centuries, ed. Rachel Fletcher, Thijs Porck, and Oliver M. Traxel
'Hrothgar's Warhorse and the Audience of Beowulf'. Medium Ævum 90 (2021): 123–132.
'Beowulf 501b and the Authority of Old English Poetic Manuscripts'. Neophilologus 105 (2021): 425–436.
'Beowulf 1889b, Andreas 1221b and Old English Poetic Style'. Studia Neophilologica. 93 (2021): 12–23.
'Old English Dithematic Names and the Reliability of Sieversian Metrics'. English Studies 101 (2020): 259–272.
'The Study of Old English Metrical Style'. In Miguel Ángel Martínez-Cabeza, Rafael J. Pascual, Belén Soria, and Rocío G. Sumillera (eds), The Study of Style: Essays in English Language and Literature in Honour of José Luis Martínez-Dueñas, Granada: EUG, 2019, pp. 29–39.
'Old Norse Influence on the Language of Beowulf: A Reassessment'. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 31 (2019): 298–322 (with L. Neidorf).
'Bliss’s Rule and Old English Metrics'. ANQ: A Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 32 (2019): 209–213.
'A Possible Emendation of Beowulf 1042a'. Notes & Queries 66.2 (2019): 166–168.
'Two Possible Emendations of Beowulf 2088a'. Notes & Queries 66.1 (2019): 5–8.
'Alliterative Metre and Medieval English Literary History'. Atlantis: Journal of the Spanish Association for Anglo-American Studies 40 (2018): 221–230.
'Oral Tradition and the History of English Alliterative Verse'. Studia Neophilologica 89 (2017): 250–260.
'Manuscript Evidence and Metrical Authenticity: A Response to Seiichi Suzuki'. Journal of Germanic Linguistics 29.1 (2017): 85–99.
'Sievers, Bliss, Fulk, and Old English Metrical Theory'. In Old English Philology: Studies in Honour of R. D. Fulk, eds. Leonard Neidorf, Rafael J. Pascual, and Tom Shippey (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2016), 17–33.
'Old English Metrical History and the Composition of Widsið'. Neophilologus 100 (2016): 289–302.
'On a Crux in Beowulf: The Alliteration of Finite Verbs and the Scribal Understanding of Metre'. Studia Neophilologica 87 (2015): 171–185.
'Ælfric’s Rhythmical Prose and the Study of Old English Metre'. English Studies 95 (2014): 803–823.
'The Language of Beowulf and the Conditioning of Kaluza's Law'. Neophilologus 98 (2014): 657–673 (with L. Neidorf).
'Material Monsters and Semantic Shifts'. In The Dating of Beowulf: A Reassessment, ed. Leonard Neidorf (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2014), 202–218.
'Three-position Verses and the Metrical Practice of the Beowulf Poet'. SELIM 20 (2013–2014): 49–79.
Reviews
Sara M. Pons-Sanz, The Lexical Effects of Anglo-Scandinavian Linguistic Contact on Old English, SELIM 19 (2012): 183–188.
Jun Terasawa, Old English Metre: An Introduction, SELIM 18 (2011): 197–206.