Selected Bibliography

  • Roots and Branches: Selected Papers on Tolkien
  • The Shadow-Walkers: Jacob Grimm’s Mythology of the Monstrous
  • J.R.R.Tolkien: Author of the Century
  • The Oxford Book of Fantasy Stories
  • The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories
  • The Road to Middle-Earth
  • The Road to Middle-Earth
  • Beowulf
  • Poems of Wisdom and Learning in Old English
  • Old English Verse
Subscriber-only

Tom Shippey

Tom Shippey’s edited collection of essays on Grimm’s mythology, The Shadow-Walkers, won the Mythopoeic Society’s 2008 award for scholarship. He is working on a book about death-scenes in Old Norse.

In the LRB Archive:

  • Bardism: The Druids · 9 July 2009

    • Blood and Mistletoe: The History of the Druids in Britain by Ronald Hutton

  • Why did they lose?: Why did Harold lose? · 12 March 2009

    • The Battle of Hastings: The Fall of Anglo-Saxon England by Harriet Harvey Wood

  • Act like Men, Britons!: Celticity · 31 July 2008

    • The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth, edited by Michael Reeve, translated by Neil Wright
    • The History of the Kings of Britain by Geoffrey of Monmouth

  • Gloomy/Cheerful: Norse mythology · 3 January 2008

    • From Asgard to Valhalla: The Remarkable History of the Norse Myths by Heather O’Donoghue

  • I lerne song: medieval schooling · 22 February 2007

    • Medieval Schools: From Roman Britain to Renaissance England by Nicholas Orme

  • The Most Learned Man in Europe: Anglo-Saxon Libraries · 8 June 2006

    • The Anglo-Saxon Library by Michael Lapidge

  • When being in thing was the in-thing on Iceland in the Middle Ages · 20 September 2001

    • Viking Age Iceland by Jesse Byock

  • Keep your eye on the tide, Jock on naval history · 4 June 1998

    • The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain, Vol. I, 660-1649 by N.A.M. Rodger
    • Weapons and Warfare in Renaissance Europe by Bert Hall

  • Not so much ‘Unready’, more ‘No-Idea’ · 20 March 1997

    • The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle edited and translated by M.J. Swanton

  • Star-Gazing · 12 December 1996

    • Stonehenge: Neolithic Man and the Cosmas by John North

  • Burbocentrism · 23 May 1996

    • Beyond Uhura: ‘Star Trek’ and Other Memories by Nichelle Nichols
    • I Am Spock by Leonard Nimoy
    • Science Fiction Audiences: Watching ‘Doctor Who’ and ‘Star Trek’ by Henry Jenkins and John Tulloch
    • ‘Star Trek’: Deep Space Nine by Mark Altman, Rob Davis and Tony Pallot

  • The Best · 22 February 1996

    • Alfred the Great by David Sturdy
    • King Alfred the Great by Alfred Smyth

  • Slaying, pillaging, burning, ravishing, and thus gratifying a laudable taste for adventure · 8 June 1995

    • Northern Antiquity: The Post-Medieval Reception of Edda and Saga edited by Andrew Wawn
    • Heritage and Prophecy: Grundtvig and the English-Speaking World edited by A.M. Allchin

  • Edward Barlow says goodbye · 4 August 1994

    • Adolescence and Youth in Early Modern England by Ilana Krausman Ben-Amos

  • Dark Knight · 24 February 1994

    • The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory by P.J.C. Field

  • Nayled to the wow · 7 January 1993

    • The Life of Geoffrey Chaucer by Derek Pearsall
    • A Wyf ther was: Essays in Honour of Paule Mertens-Fonck edited by Juliette Dor
    • Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of 14th-Century Texts by Paul Strohm

  • To litel Latin · 11 October 1990

    • Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: The Latin Writings of the Age by J.W. Binns

  • Footpaths · 26 July 1990

    • England and Englishness: Ideas of Nationhood in English Poetry, 1688-1900 by John Lucas
    • The Englishman’s England: Taste, Travel and the Rise of Tourism by Ian Ousby
    • Fleeting Things: English Poets and Poems, 1616-1660 by Gerald Hammond

  • Women beware midwives · 10 May 1990

    • The Medieval Woman by Edith Ennan, translated by Edmund Jephcott
    • Not of woman born: Representations of Caesarean Birth in Medieval and Renaissance Culture by Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski
    • Childhood in the Middle Ages by Shulamith Shahar
    • Lovesickness in the Middle Ages: The Viaticum and its Commentaries by Mary Wack
    • Barbarolexis: Medieval Writing and Sexuality by Alexandre Leupin, translated by Kate Cooper

  • Pain and Hunger · 7 December 1989

    • Health for Sale: Quackery in England 1660-1850 by Roy Porter
    • Popular Errors by Laurent Joubert and Gregory David de Rocher
    • Bread of Dreams: Food and Fantasy in Early Modern Europe by Piero Camporesi, translated by David Gentilcore
    • Poisons of the Past: Molds, Epidemics and History by Mary Kilbourne Matossian

  • Getting rid of them · 31 August 1989

    • Betrayal: Child Exploitation in Today’s World edited by Caroline Moorehead
    • The Kindness of Strangers: The Abandonment of Children in Western Europe from Late Antiquity to the Renaissance by John Boswell

  • Je sui uns hom · 1 June 1989

    • Medieval Civilisation 400-1500 by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Julia Barrow
    • The Cambridge Illustrated History of the Middle Ages. Vol. I: 350-950 edited by Robert Fossier, translated by Janet Sondheimer
    • The Medieval Imagination by Jacques Le Goff, translated by Arthur Goldhammer
    • Concepts of Cleanliness: Changing Attitudes in France since the Middle Ages by Georges Vigarello, translated by Jean Birrell
    • Medieval Iceland: Society, Sagas and Power by Jesse Byock

  • Danger-Men · 2 February 1989

    • A Turbulent, Seditious and Factious People: John Bunyan and his Church by Christopher Hill
    • The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History by Anne Hudson

  • Little does it quake as it lies on the plate · 27 October 1988

    • The Oxford Illustrated History of Medieval Europe edited by George Holmes
    • A History of 12th-century Western Philosophy edited by Peter Dronke
    • The Cambridge History of Medieval Political Thought c.350-c.1450 edited by J.H. Burns
    • Medieval Popular Culture: Problem of Belief and Perception by Aron Gurevich, translated by Janos Bak and Paul Hollingsworth
    • A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World edited by George Duby, translated by Arthur Goldhammer

  • Fatty · 5 May 1988

    • Bare-Faced Messiah: The True Story of L. Ron Hubbard by Russell Miller
    • Dianetics by L. Ron Hubbard
    • Mission Earth. Vol. V: Fortune of Fear by L. Ron Hubbard
    • Mission Earth. Vol. VI: Death Quest by L. Ron Hubbard

  • Melbourne’s Middle Future · 7 January 1988

    • The Sea and Summer by George Turner
    • The Dragon in the Sword by Michael Moorcock
    • Fiasco by Stanislaw Lem, translated by Michael Kandel

  • Winners and Wasters · 2 April 1987

    • The French Peasantry 1450-1660 by Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, translated by Alan Sheridan
    • The Superstitious Mind: French Peasants and the Supernatural in the 19th Century by Judith Devlin

  • Out of the Gothic · 5 February 1987

    • Trillion Year Spree: The History of Science Fiction by Brian Aldiss and David Wingrove
    • Eon by Greg Bear
    • The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts by Douglas Adams
    • Humpty Dumpty in Oakland by Philip K. Dick
    • The Watcher by Jane Palmer
    • I, Vampire by Jody Scott

  • Vidkids · 30 December 1982

    • Invasion of the Space Invaders: An Addict’s Guide to Battle Tactics, Big Scores and the Best, Machines by Martin Amis
    • Dicing with Dragons: An Introduction to Role-Playing Games by Ian Livingstone

Letters

7 May 1987

Select a letter to see more contributors: A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

Contributor's Index »