Dr Matthew Firth

Matthew is a PhD Candidate in the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, researching cultural memory, historical narrative, and Anglo-Scandinavian acculturation in the tenth-thirteenth centuries. With research specialities in the history of early medieval England and in Scandinavian saga literature, he has published numerous articles on various aspects of society and culture in England and Scandinavia in the Middle Ages, and their intersections. He is currently working on his first monograph, a biographical study of English queens-consort in the years 850-1000, scheduled for publication the Routledge Lives of Royal Women series.

Matthew is the current editor of Cerae Journal, an assistant editor of the Brepols published series East Central Europe, 476–1795, the reviews editor for the Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association (AEMA), an AEMA committee member, inaugral secretary for the Flinders College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences Postgraduate Association, and co-founder and lead researcher for The Postgrad Chronicles academic blog.

• Cultural Memory & Exchange
• Early Medieval England (Anglo-Saxons)
• Early Medieval Monarchy
• Icelandic Sagas
• Medieval Iceland
• Medieval Literature
• Pre-Modern English Queenship
• The Middle Ages
• Vikings and Viking Age History