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Antony R. Henk, M.A.

PhD Assistant

While obtaining my M.A. in English Philology from the University of Göttingen, I began working as a palaeographic analyst and XML editor for the ERC-funded project ECHOE, the Electronic Corpus of Anonymous Homilies in Old English. I have since begun my PhD at Ruhr-University Bochum, where I teach, manage the departmental website, and provide organisational assistance. My dissertation focuses specifically on English relic lists and inventories dating up to 1286, a corpus of texts of which I intend to produce a critical electronic edition. Relic lists are texts which describe the state of the relic collections of individual religious houses by recording labels on shrines, reliquaries, and relic bundles themselves. A more detailed overview of this project can be found on my dissertation website, Loca Sanctorum.

Room: GB / 6 / 38
Tel. +49 234 - 32 - 15720
E-mail: Antony.henk@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Office Hours: By appointment

Antony R. Henk


Research interests
  • Early medieval ecclesiastical and monastic studies
  • Societal role of the Church
  • Medieval lists, litanies, calendars, inventories, and legal texts
  • Early Christian liturgy
  • Codicology and palaeography
  • History of the book as object
  • Old English and Older Scots war poetry
Current activities and memberships
Academic CV
  • 2024 – current  Ruhr-Universität Bochum, PhD in English Philology (Medieval Studies)
    • Dissertation: ‘Relic Lists and Relic Veneration in the Early English Church’
    • Primary Supervisor: Jun.-Prof. Dr. Kerstin Majewski, Ruhr-University Bochum
    • Secondary Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Winfried Rudolf, Georg-August University Göttingen
  • 2022 – 2024      Assistant Researcher and Palaeographic Analyst, Electronic Corpus of Homilies in Old English, Georg-August University Göttingen
  • 2019 – 2022      Georg-August University Göttingen, Master of Arts, English: Language, Literatures, and Cultures
    • Certificate: ‘Languages in Focus’ (Historical Linguistics)
    • Master's thesis: ‘The Scottish Book Trade and Blind Hary’s Wallace, 1488—1620’
      Awarded the 2024 Fakultätspreis der Philosophischen Fakultät for outstanding scholarly merit.
  • 2016 – 2018      University of West Florida, Bachelor of Arts, English Liberal Arts
    • Major: English (Liberal Arts)
    • Minor: World Languages (German)
  • 2009 – 2013      Pensacola State College, Associate of Arts, English
Conference organisation
  • XXIV. Studientag Englisches Mittelalter, Ruhr-University Bochum (15.–16.11.2024)
  • Göttingen Summer School in Digital Palaeography, with a Focus on Scholarly Editing, University of Göttingen (26.8–6.9.2024) Assistant Organiser
  • ‘The Impact of Editing on a Global Scale’: First International Symposium of the Forum Editorik Göttingen, University of Göttingen (13–15.6.2024) Assistant Organiser
Conference contributions
  • 25.–26.10.2024: ‘Teaching and Learning the Medieval Kalendar’
    At the Helm: Spotlight on Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts: 2024 Research Group on Manuscript Evidence Autumn Symposium, (online)
  • 11.–14.7.2023: ‘Books as Reliquaries: Enshrinement, Inscription, and Secularization in the Bath Cartulary and Bath Old English Gospels’
    Eighteenth Biennial Conference of the Early Book Society, University of Limerick, Ireland
  • 11.–13.5.2023: ‘The Wallace in (Lost) Print: Rebuilding a Tradition of Medieval Scots Verse’
    58th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, USA
  • 17.–19.7.2022: ‘Wallace in Manuscript and Print’
    Medieval Academy of America Summer Research Workshop, Yale University, USA
Academic outreach
  • (Forthcoming). ‘Liste verfassen, Liste anfassen: Göttingen SUB Theol. 37 cim. und neue Forschungsfragen zur Reliquienverzeichnissen im mittelalterlichen Evangelienbücher’, Hypotheses: Selten und Bemerkenswert – Sammlungsblog der SUB (Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen).
Other Publications
  • (Forthcoming). ‘Review: 9. Alfried Krupp-Summerkurs für Handschriftenkultur an der Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig’, Hypotheses: Mittelalter – Interdiziplinäre Forschung und Rezeptionsgeschichte, with M. Noack, K. Schneider, P. Landgrebe, and M. Marchioni.
  • 2021.‘Mending the “injurie of oblivion”: “Englishing” Chaucer and Barbour in Early Printed Editions,’ SEDERI Yearbook 31: 31–36.
  • 2021. I SPOKE TO GOD, Haunted PS1 Summer of Shivers Indie Video Game Jam.
    Contribution: English Game Text, Alpha and Beta Testing