Dr Matthew Firth

Matthew is is an Associate Lecturer in medieval literature and history at Flinders University. His research focuses on historiography, cultural memory, and the transmission of historical narrative across time and place. 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), and an AEMA committee member..

Most recent publications:

Matthew Firth, 'Identifying Queenship in Pre-Conquest England,' in Norman to Early Plantaganet Consorts: Power, Influence, Dynasty, ed. Aidan Norrie et al. (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023), 17-45.

Matthew Firth and Cassandra Schilling, 'The Lonely Afterlives of Early English Queens', Neophilologus 107 (2023), 127-43.

Erin Sebo and Matthew Firth, 'Saxo Grammaticus's Account of the Viking Age Site on the Danish Island of Hjarnø in Gesta Danorum', Scandinavian Studies 95, 2 (2023), 166-82.

John Mccarthy, Erin Sebo and Matthew Firth, 'Parallels for cetacean trap feeding and tread-water feeding in the historical record across two millennia', Marine Mammal Science (2023, eprint).