Dr Nicole Meier

I teach modules on medieval literatures and culture, Old English, Middle English and Scots.

Current Teaching (WiSe 2024-25)

MA seminars "Cross, Christ & Corruption"

Medieval Studies reasearch colloquium

Previous BA and MA Modules Taught (Selection)

• Introduction to Middle English 
• Love, Marriage and Women in Middle English literature
• Arrivals and departures: Early English literature 
• Religious literature of the Middle Ages 
• Medieval Literature, Manuscripts and Writing 
• Voices from the „Dark Ages“ 
• Love, Libel, Lechery 
• Research Trends in Medieval Studies 
• The Canterbury Tales 
• Monsters, Monks and Mysteries
• Dragons and Dreams 
• Orality and Literarcy 
• Medieval Scottish Language and Literature 
• Reading Food: Recipes, Feasts and Nutrition in the Middle Ages 
• Introduction to Old English 

Supervision

I have supervised BA and MA thesis on various topics, mostly in Medieval Studies, such as "Misogyny in Medieval Scottish Literature", "'Thow jappyst, as I wene': Genre Subversion through Humour in Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle and The Wright’s Chaste Wife", and "Aspects of National Identity and Chivalry in John Barbour’s ‘The Brus’".

Books  
The Poems of Walter Kennedy.  Scottish Text Society. Boydell & Brewer: Woodbridge, 2008.   

Articles   
"Alfred", Metzler Lexikon englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren. Ed. A. Nünning and E. Kreutzer. Metzler: Stuttgart, 2002, p. 6.  

"Hoccleve", Metzler Lexikon englischsprachiger Autorinnen und Autoren. Ed. A. Nünning and E. Kreutzer. Metzler: Stuttgart, 2002, p. 247.   

"The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy in Context", Langage Cleir Illumynate. Scottish Poetry from Barbour to Drummond, 1375-1630. Ed. Nicola Royan. Amsterdam/New York, NY: Rodopi, 2007, pp. 61-79.   

"The Flyting", The Chepman and Myllar Prints. Digitised Facsimiles with Introduction, Headnote and Transcription. Ed. Sally Mapstone. Scottish Text Society, Edinburgh, 2008. 

"Eifersucht, Neid und Mord in den Anglo-Schottischen Volksballaden 'The Twa Sisters' und 'Lord Thomas and Fair Annet'", Eifersucht. Formen, Funktionen und Folgen der Eifersucht in der deutschen und englischen Literatur, Kultur und Erkenntnis. Ed. Uwe Baumann and Peter Nover. Tübingen; Basel: Francke, forthoming, pp. 21-31.

"Protestant Censorship in 16th-Century Scottish Manuscripts: the Case of Walter Kennedy's 'Leif luve, my luve, no langar it lyk'" Anglistentag 2008 Tübingen Proceedings. Ed. Lars Eckstein and Christoph Reinfandt. WVT: Trier, 2009, pp. 159-166.

"Farbwörter im Mittelschottischen" Farbe im Mittelalter. Materialität - Medialität - Semantik. Ed. I. Bennewitz & A. Schindler. 2 vols. Berlin 2011, vol. 1, pp. 341-349.

"Looking at Mary: The Mother of Christ in Kennedy’s 'Ballat of Our Lady' and 'Passioun of Crist'" Literature and Religion in Late Medieval and Early Modern Scotland. Essays in Honour of Alasdair A. MacDonald. Ed. L.A.J.R.Houwen. Mediaevalia Groningana New Series, 18. Peeters: Leuven, 2012, pp. 23-34.

 "A schort tretys of a creature – (Auto-)biographisches Schreiben im Book of Margery Kempe" Autobiographie: Eine interdisziplinäre Gattung zwischen klassischer Tradition und (post-)moderner Variation. Eds. Uwe Baumann & Karl August Neuhausen. Super alta perennis. Studien zur Wirkung der Klassischen Antike. Göttingen: V&R unipress / Bonn University Press, 2013, pp. 107-127. 
"Anglicisation and Protestantisation in Scottish Mss and Prints in the 16th Century" (in preparation).

(together with Tricia McElroy) "Satire and Flyting" International Companion to Scottish Literature 1400-1650. Ed. Nicola Royan. Edinburgh, 2018, pp. 200-216. 

"Walter Kennedy" & "Stobo" Edinburgh Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Writers. Eds. Caroline McCracken-Flesher and Alan Riach (Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming). 

"Die altenglische Elene als christliche Heldin?" Heroinnen und Heldinnen in Geschichte, Kunst und Literatur. Ed. U. Baumann, Marc Laureys und Konrad Vössing. Super alta perennis. Studien zur Wirkung der Klassischen Antike, Band 23.V&R unipress: Bonn, 2022. 

Reviews  

Peer Reviewer for Medievalia & Humanistica, the Journal of the Northern Renaissance and eVARIENG. 

The Edinburgh History of the Scots Language. Anglia 120 (2002).   

A Textual History of Scots. Anglia 121 (2003).   

The Celtic Roots of English. Anglia 125 (2007).   

The Celtic Englishes. Anglia 125 (2007).   

A History of the English Language. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen (2008).   

Lexicalization and Language Change. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 246 (2009).  

Imagination und Deixis. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 246 (2009).  
Corpus Linguistics 25 Years On. Anglia 127 (2009).   

Key Concepts in Medieval Literature. Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 247 (2010). 

Word Power: A Dictionary of Fascinating and Learned for Vocabulary Enrichment. Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 248 (2011). 

Communicating Early English Manuscripts. Editionen in der Kritik 11 (2012). 

Analysing Older English. Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 249 (2012). 

Machan: What Is English? And Why Should We Care? Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 251 (2014). S. 437-438. 

Cowen: On Famous Women. The Middle English Translation of Boccaccio's 'De Mulieribus Claris'. Editionen in der Kritik 17 (2017). 

Heather Blatt: Participatory Reading in Late-Medieval England. Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2018. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 257:1 (2020), 188-189.  

Whetter: The Manuscript and Meaning of Malory’s Morte Darthur: Rubrication, Commemoration, Memoralization. Archiv für das Studium der Neueren Sprachen und Literaturen 255 (2018). 

Andrew Breeze: British Battles 493–937: Mount Badon to Brunanburh. London: Anthem Press, 2020. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 258:1 (2021), 242. 

Omar Khalaf: Alexander and Dindimus. Edited from Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 264. Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, 2017. Archiv für das Studium der neueren Sprachen und Literaturen, 258:1 (2021), 217-219. 

Arvind Thomas: Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages.” Toronto/ON: University of Toronto Press, 2019. Perspicuitas. Online: http://www.uni-due.de/imperia/md/content/perspicuitas/rez_meier_2020.pdf. (Eingestellt am 14.01.2021). 

1999: „The Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy in Context“ - 9th International Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Scottish Language and Literature, The University of St Andrews, GB, 7.-11. August.

2000: „Editing Middle Scots Texts“ - Postgraduate Conference, The Burn, Angus, GB, 10. Juni. 

2002: „Walter Kennedy - ‚Iersche bybour baird‘?“ - Scotconf, 10th International Conference on Scottish Language and Literature of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Rolduc, Niederlande, 13.-19. Juli. 

2004: „‘Maist plane termes‘? Walter Kennedy: A Gaelic Poet writing in Scots“ - International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds, GB, 12.-15. Juli.

2005: „Continental and Scottish Sources: Religious Poetry and the Praise of Aige“ - The 12th Conference of the Robert Henryson Society, Dunfermline, GB, 14. Mai.

2006: „Godis gloir and ouir saluatioun: Religious Poetry in Late Medieval Scotland“ - SEM VIII, München, 3. März.

2007: Referat: Maik Goth „Nothyng but for Coveitise: Chaucer’s Pardoner, Intermediality, and the Vice in Transition“ - SEM IX, Zürich, 3. März.

2008: „Editing Kennedy: Problems of Anglicisation and Protestantisation“ Directions in Early Scottish Editing, Leicester, GB, 8. September 2008 

2008: „Anglicisation in Scottish Manuscripts and Prints in the Renaissance“ Anglistentag, Tübingen, 7. Oktober 2008  

2009: „Farbwörter im Mittelschottischen“ Farbiges Mittelalter: 13. Symposion des Mediävistenverbandes, Bamberg, 4. März.  

2010: Referat: Eva von Contzen "Constructing Narrative Art: Saints’ Lives in the Scottish Legendary", SEM XII, Dresden, 5. März.

2011: Referat: Richard Z. Gallant: “Original Sin in Heorot and Valinor“- SEM XIII, Freiburg, 1. März.

2014: „Scottish Chaucerians? Looking at Dunbar and Kennedy in the year of the referendum“, Swansea University, Research Colloquium, 13. März.

2014: „Das stolze Erbe der Kelten: Kilt und Kult(ur), Dudelsack und Distel“, Offene Akademietagung, Thema: Wenn Schottland geht ... Aufgabe der Union mit England nach über 300 Jahren? Bensberg, Thomas Morus Akademie, 10. Mai.

2019: „Germanic heroine and Christian saint – Cynewulf’s Elene” Inverness College, Invited Talk, 18. März.

I was educated at the Universities of Bonn, Aberdeen, and Edinburgh.

I am the Administrative Coordinator of our department and therefore responsible (together with the head of department) for the administration and management of the department. I am also Advisor of Studies (responsible for certificates (Bescheinigungen), learning agreements and crediting of modules), the course convener of the MA Medieval Studies and the departmental Vice Erasmus-Coordinator.

Research Interests

Scottish Literature (esp. 15th and 16th century); medieval literature (Chaucer, Margery Kempe, Old English poetry); historical linguistics, dialectology, paleography.

Memberships

Anglistenverband
Association for Scottish Literary Studies
Scottish Text Society
Deutscher Hochschulverband
Bonner Mittelalterzentrum 

Head of the Medieval Studies Forum Bonn (Bonner Mittelalter-Forum; zus. mit Roland Ißler)