Malcolm Reginald Godden, FBA (born 9 October 1945) is a British academic who held the chair of the

Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon The Rawlinson and Bosworth Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, until 1916 known as the Rawlinsonian Professorship of Anglo-Saxon, was established by Richard Rawlinson of St John's College, Oxford, in 1795. The Chair is associated with Pembroke Colle ...

at the

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from 1991 until 2013. From 1963 to 1966 he studied for a B.A. in English at

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; he then continued with several postgraduate studies until 1969. In 1970 he obtained a Ph.D. from

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for a dissertation which was an edition of

Ælfric Ælfric (Old English ', Middle English ''Elfric'') is an Anglo-Saxon given name. Churchmen *Ælfric of Eynsham (c. 955–c. 1010), late 10th century Anglo-Saxon abbot and writer *Ælfric of Abingdon (died 1005), late 10th century Anglo-Saxon Archbi ...

's Second Series of ''Catholic Homilies'' under the supervision of Professor P. A. M. Clemoes. His academic appointments include: *1969-1972: Junior Research Fellow, Pembroke College, Cambridge *1970-1971: Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of English, Cornell University *1972-75: University Lecturer, Department of English Language, Liverpool University *1976-91: Fellow and lecturer in English, Exeter College, Oxford, and CUF Lecturer in the Faculty of English, Oxford University *1991-2013: Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon in the University of Oxford, and professorial fellow of

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. His interests include: Alfredian prose, Wulfstan of York,

Ælfric of Eynsham Ælfric of Eynsham ( ang, Ælfrīc; la, Alfricus, Elphricus; ) was an English abbot and a student of Æthelwold of Winchester, and a consummate, prolific writer in Old English of hagiography, homilies, biblical commentaries, and other genres. H ...

and

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. He is currently an editor of the academic journal ''

Anglo-Saxon England Anglo-Saxon England or Early Medieval England, existing from the 5th to the 11th centuries from the end of Roman Britain until the Norman conquest in 1066, consisted of various Anglo-Saxon kingdoms until 927, when it was united as the Kingdom o ...

''. He was elected

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(FBA) in 2009. He delivered the 2009 Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture.text
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Bibliography

*''Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: the Second Series, Text'' (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 5.) Oxford: University Press, 1979 *''The Making of Piers Plowman''. London, 1990 *''The Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature''; edited with M. Lapidge. Cambridge: University Press, 1991 *''From Anglo-Saxon to Early Middle English: studies presented to E. G. Stanley''; edited with D. Gray and T. Hoad. Oxford, 1994 *''Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: the First Series, Text''; ed. P. Clemoes. (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 17.) Oxford: University Press, 1997 *''Ælfric's Catholic Homilies: Introduction, Commentary and Glossary''. (Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series; 18.) Oxford: University Press, 2000 *''The Old English Boethius: an edition of the Old English versions of Boethius’s "De Consolatione Philosophiae"''; edited with S. Irvine. 2 vols. Oxford: University Press, 2009

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