Dissertation Blog

March 5, 2025

I met with my dissertation director/mentor today to discuss my comprehensive exams. Since this is my last semester of coursework, it's time to start thinking about the next step in this incredibly stressful journey. Luckily, since I knew what I wanted to study when I came to Georgia State University, I've had my comprehensive exam reading list for almost a year. You would think I would have read everything on it by now, but you know how it goes. Now, I am tasked with finding an additional ten books (or articles) to add to my comprehensive exam reading list. This is what I have so far: 

1. Medieval Christianity (2015) by Kevin Madigan

2. The Anglo-Saxon Psalter (2014) by M J Toswell 

3. Living Letters of the Law: Ideas of the Jew in Medieval Christianity (1999) by Jeremy Cohen

4. The Salvation of Israel: Jews in Christian Eschatology from Paul to the Puritans (2022) by Jeremy Cohen

5. A History of the Jews in England (1978) by Cecil Roth

6. The King's Jews: Money, Massacre and Exodus in Medieval England (2010) by Robin R. Mundill

7. Monastic Life in Anglo-Saxon England, c.600-900 (2006) by Sarah Foot

8. The Coming of Christianity to Anglo-Saxon England (1972) by Henry Mayr-Harting

9. Anglo-Saxon Christianity (1999) by Paul Cavill 

10. "A History of the Study of Apocrypha in Early Medieval England" by Brandon W Hawk from Bulletin for the Study of Religion (2019)

Fingers crossed.