Professor Meg Twycross (English Department, Lancaster University: Director of Studies for the MA by Research
in Medieval Studies) is co-editor of the journal Medieval English Theatre and its associated publications,
and has published widely on medieval theatre in all its aspects.
She specialised in the meticulous recreation
of medieval performance conditions in authentic venues, including the organisation of two pageant-waggon sequences along part
of the original route of the York Mystery Plays for the
York festivals of 1988 and 1992. Her videos made with Lancaster University Television are
used widely for teaching. She is also an expert in medieval iconography. Masks and Masking in
Medieval and Early Tudor England, written in collaboration with Dr. Sarah Carpenter of Edinburgh
University, and published by Ashgate in 2002, won the the international 2004 David Bevington Award
for Best New Book in Early Drama Studies.
Professor Pamela King is
Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies at Bristol University. She was co-editor of the modern-spelling text of
York Mystery Plays (OUP); an edition of
the Coventry Plays with Clifford Davidson, and has published a short book on them for the Coventry
Historical Association. She is preparing a hypermedia
facsimile of the two surviving Coventry Plays. She is currently finishing a major book investigating the relationship of the
York Cycle to the liturgy. Her publications also include works on the continuing tradition of
festive religious drama in Spain, processions and festive culture, and on medieval art and literature, especially
in their social contexts. Her postgraduate training in Medieval
Studies in York included iconography, and urban and ecclesiastical history.Email: fapmk@bristol.ac.uk
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Mrs. Olga Horner graduated from Lancaster University with
a degree in English. Her subsequent research has been eclectic, with a particular interest
in medieval theatre and the law. Her publications include 'Fulgens and Lucres:
An Historical Perspective' Medieval English Theatre 15 (1993) 49-86;
'Christmas at the Inns of Court' in Festive Drama (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1995) 41-53;
'Susanna's Double Life' Medieval English Theatre 8 (1986) 76-102; and ‘Biblical and Medieval Covenant in the Old Testament Plays’
in Porci ante Margaritam: Essays in Honour of Meg Twycross edited Sarah Carpenter,
Pamela King, and Peter Meredith Leeds Studies in English NS 32 (2001). Her ground-breaking article,
'The Law that Never Was', on the legal position of playing God on the English stage, appeared in
Medieval English Theatre 23.
She has taught for the English Department at Lancaster University and been a stalwart
of the Joculatores Lancastrienses: no pageant waggon could move without her.
She has been a researcher for REED, and is Subscriptions Secretary of Medieval English
Theatre.Email: o.horner@lancaster.ac.uk
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Helen Bennett has a BA in English
and an MA in Medieval Studies from Lancaster University. Her interests are spread between
medievalism and computing: her MA dissertation was written on both. She is now working for
Entropy International, thus combining ethical management
of the planet with computing know-how. From time to time, she also provides free technical advice to the Project over coffee.
Email: helen.bennett@entropy-international.com.
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Professor Andrew Prescott is Director of the
Centre for Research into Freemasonry at the
University of Sheffield. He has lectured and published widely on the history of Freemasonry since the
establishment of the Centre in 2001.
He was a curator in the Department
of Manuscripts in the British Library from 1979–2000. His research interests, besides
the study of Freemasonry, include the
Peasants’ Revolt of 1381 and the history of the library of Sir Robert Cotton.
He is one of the country’s leading experts on the application
of new technologies to humanities research, and was the principal library contact for
the British Library’s Electronic
Beowulf project.
Address: Humanities Research Institute, Floor 14, Arts Tower, University of Sheffield,
SHEFFIELD S10 2TN
Telephone: (+44) 114 222 9890
Fax (+44) 114 222 9894
Email: a.prescott@sheffield.ac.uk.
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