Update about the trade book I am writing as an output from my NFR grant on the influence of St. Birgitta of Sweden in late-medieval...

Lecture in Rome, 21 Nov I am now happily ensconced as a visiting researcher for the month of November at the Norwegian Institute in Rome....

First announcement: The online resource for my Birgitta project is now officially launched! It includes a database of entries of books...

I'm writing from northwest Lesbos, Greece, at the rural and beautiful Metochi, an old monastic annex turned study center now owned by the...

In June I heard the great news that my monograph, The Virgin Mary's Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation and Devotion in...

LECTURE On Monday 21 March from 6-7pm I'll be giving a lecture here in Bergen for the Medieval Cluster or Middelalderklyngen, as part of...

My 2020 book, The Virgin Mary’s Book at the Annunciation: Reading, Interpretation, and Devotion in Medieval England (Woodbridge, UK: D.S....

From Sept-December this year I will be resident in Oxford, where I am carrying out manuscript research for my NFR project on St....

This spring has offered several exciting opportunities for me to share my research with audiences outside the academy. You can hear me...

On Monday 8 March 2021, the birthday of Lauritz Meltzer (d. 1943), the Meltzer Fund awarded two prizes for outstanding younger...

The Works of Richard Methley, translated by Barbara Newman and with an introduction by me, finally arrived in my mailbox today! It is not...

As of August 2020 and issue 47.1, I am the new book review editor for the Journal of Medieval Religious Cultures, and honored to join new...

The London Old and Middle English Research Seminar presents: Laura Saetveit Miles "St. Birgitta of Sweden’s Revelations in Middle English...

Richard Methley is the most weird and wild late-medieval mystic no-one has heard of - and his Latin spiritual treatises are finally...

UPDATE: A recording of the book launch is now on YouTube. The book launch has been moved online, and now anyone in the world can join!...

The first copies of my book came in the mail! DHL managed to change the delivery address to my house instead of my department, which is...

If you're reading this, you've discovered it. I built my first personal website using Wordpress on 26 March, 2010. It was the day after...