Below is a full overview of my publications, with Open Access options added between square brackets when applicable (I make my scholarship avalable, via the CORE repository of Humanities Commons). For Open Access pages dedicated to specific research fields, see the links in the sidebar on the right of the page (or the bottom of the page if you are using a smartphone).

Publications

Monograph

  1. Thijs Porck, Old Age in Early Medieval England: A Cultural History, Anglo-Saxon Studies 33 (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 2019) – reviewed in Modern Philology; Journal of British Studies; The Medieval Review; Anglia ; Speculum; Folklore; TOEBI Newsletter; The English Historical Review ; QFiAB; Das Mittelalter

Edited volumes

  1. Luisella Caon, Moragh Gordon & Thijs Porck (eds.), Unlocking the History of English: Pragmatics, Prescriptivism and Text Types. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 364 (John Benjamins, 2024)
  2. Thijs Porck, Moragh Gordon & Luisella Caon (eds.), Keys to the History of English: Diachronic Linguistic Change, Morpho-Syntax and Lexicography. Current Issues in Linguistic Theory 363 (John Benjamins, 2024)
  3. Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck & Oliver M. Traxel (eds.), Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21st Centuries. Medievalism 21 (Cambridge: D. Brewer, 2022) – reviewed in English Studies
  4. Thijs Porck & Harriet Soper (eds.), Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives. Explorations in Medieval Culture 20 (Leiden: Brill, 2022) – reviewed in The Medieval Review; The English Historical Review
  5. Thijs Porck & Sander Stolk (eds.), Exploring Early Medieval English Eloquence: A Digital Humanities Approach with A Thesaurus of Old English and Evoke, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 81:3-4 (2021, Brill) 
  6. Thijs Porck, Amos van Baalen & Jodie Mann (eds.), Scholarly Correspondence on Medieval Germanic Language and Literature, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 78: 2-3 (2018, Brill)
  7. Thijs Porck (ed.), The Familiar and the Foreign in Old Germanic Studies, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 77:3-4 (2017, Brill) [Open Access publication]
  8. Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Thijs Porck, Frans Ruiter & Usha Wilbers (eds.), Tracing Paradigms: One Hundred Years of Neophilologus (s.l.: Springer, 2016)

Peer-reviewed online text editions

  1. Thijs Porck (ed.), De filosoof en de filoloog: De correspondentie tussen G. J. P. J. Bolland en P. J. Cosijn (1879-1899), eLaborate, Huygens/ING (2018) [Open Access publication]

Peer-reviewed journal articles

  1. Thijs Porck, “Newly Discovered Pieces of an Old English Glossed Psalter: The Alkmaar Fragments of the N-Psalter“, Anglo-Saxon England (forthc.; 2024): 1-66 [Open Access publication]
  2. Thijs Porck, “Onomasiological Profiles of Old English Texts: Analysing the Vocabulary of Beowulf, Andreas and the Old English Martyrology through Linguistic Linked Data“, in Exploring Early Medieval English Eloquence: A Digital Humanities Approach with A Thesaurus of Old English and Evoke, ed. Thijs Porck and Sander Stolk, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 81: 3-4 (2021), 359–383 [Open Access publication]
  3. Thijs Porck, “Undoomed men do not need saving.  A note on Beowulf, II. 572b-3 and 2291-3a“, Notes and Queries n.s. 67 (2020), 157-159 [Open Access publication]
  4. Thijs Porck & Berber Bossenbroek, “A Hart with Its Head Held High: A New Emendation for Beowulf, line 1372a“, ANQ: A Quarterly Journal of Short Articles, Notes, and Reviews 33 (2020), 4-8 [Open Access publication]
  5. Thijs Porck, “An Old English Love Poem, a Beowulf Summary and a Recommendation Letter from Eduard Sievers: G. J. P. J. Bolland (1854-1922) as an Aspiring Old Germanicist“, in Scholarly Correspondence on Medieval Germanic Language and Literature, ed. Thijs Porck, Amos van Baalen & Jodie Mann, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 78:2-3 (2018), 262-291 [author’s post-print PDF in CORE]
  6. Thijs Porck & Sander Stolk, “Marking Boundaries in Beowulf: Æschere’s Head, Grendel’s Arm and the Dragon’s Corpse“, in The Familiar and the Foreign in Old Gemanic Studies, ed. Thijs Porck, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 77: 3-4 (2017), 521-540 [Open Access publication]
  7. Thijs Porck, “Treasures in a Sooty Bag? A Note on Durham Proverb 7“, Notes and Queries n.s. 62 (2015), 203-206 [author’s post-print PDF in CORE]
  8. Thijs Porck & Jodie Mann, “How Cnut became Canute (and how Harthacnut became Airdeconut)“, NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution 67 (2014), 237–243 [author’s post-print PDF in CORE]
  9. Thijs Porck, “Two Notes on an Old English Confessional Prayer in Vespasian D. XX“, Notes and Queries n.s. 60 (2013), 493–498 [author’s post-print PDF in CORE]
  10. Thijs Porck & Henk Porck, “Eight Guidelines on Book Preservation from 1527: How One Should Preserve All Books to Last Eternally”, Journal of PaperConservation : IADA Reports – Mitteilungen der IADA 13, no. 2 (2012), 17–25 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  11. Thijs Porck & Henk Porck, “Hoemen alle boucken bewaren sal om eewelic te duerene. Acht regels uit 1527 over het conserveren van boeken”, Jaarboek voor Nederlandse boekgeschiedenis 15 (2008), 7–21 [Open Access in dbnl]
  12. Thijs Porck, “Een Rijnlandse serie adelskronieken 1533–1542. Het zogenaamde Voorste Haagsche Handschrift”, Millennium: Tijdschrift voor Middeleeuwse Studies 20 (2006), 44–62 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]

Book chapters

  1. Thijs Porck, “Beliefs and Cultures: Medieval Stereotypes of Old Age”, in A Cultural History of Old Age in the Medieval Era, ed. Lucie Laumonier & Joel T. Rosenthal (Bloomsbury, forthc.)
  2. Thijs Porck & Harriet Soper, “Life Courses”, in The New Cambridge History of Britain. Volume I: c.410 – c.1100, ed. Fiona Edmonds & Rory Naismith (Cambridge University Press, forthc.)
  3. Thijs Porck, “J. R. R. Tolkien: Midden-aarde als voedingsbodem voor de mediëvistiek”, in Spiegelingen: Mediëvisten voor de eenentwintigste eeuw, ed. Wim van Anrooij, Bart Besamusca, Dieuwke van der Poel & Frank Willaert (Amsterdam: Prometheus, 2023), 77-90 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  4. Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck & Oliver M. Traxel, “Early Medieval English in the Modern Age: An Introduction to Old English Medievalism”, in Old English Medievalism: Reception and Recreation in the 20th and 21s Centuries, ed. Rachel A. Fletcher, Thijs Porck & Oliver M. Traxel (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2022), 1-18.
  5. Thijs Porck & Harriet Soper, “Conceptualizing the Life Course in Early Medieval England“, in Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives, ed. Thijs Porck & Harriet Soper (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 1-14 [Open Access publication]
  6. Thijs Porck, “The Ages of Man and the Ages of Woman in Early Medieval England: From Bede to Byrhtferth of Ramsay and the Tractatus de quaternario“, in Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives, ed. Thijs Porck & Harriet Soper (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 17-46 [Open Access publication]
  7. Thijs Porck, “Medieval Animals in Middle-earth: J.R.R. Tolkien and the Old English and Middle English Physiologus”, in Figurations animalières à travers les textes et l’image en Europe, du Moyen Age à nos jours, ed. A. Schulte Nordholt & A. van der Haar (Leiden: Brill, 2022), 266-280 [Open Access publication]
  8. Thijs Porck, “I can read Hollandsch very fairly. The Correspondence between James Murray (1837-1915) and Pieter Jacob Cosijn (1840-1899)”, in Language Use, Usage Guides, and Linguistic Norms, ed. Luisella Caon, Marion Elenbaas & Janet Grijzenhout (Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2021), 107-129 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  9. Thijs Porck, “Columbanus’s De mundi transitu in Early Medieval England: A New Source for an Old English Homily (Irvine VII) in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Bodley 343“, in The Anonymous Old English Homily: Sources, Composition, and Variation, ed. Winfried Rudolf & Susan Irvine (Leiden: Brill, 2021), 235-256 [Open Access publication]
  10. Thijs Porck, “Gerontophobia in Early Medieval England: Anglo-Saxon Reflections on Old Age”, in Sense and Feeling in Daily Living in the Early Medieval English World, ed. Maren Clegg Hyer and Gale R. Owen-Crocker (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2020), 219-235, 278-282, 287 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  11. Thijs Porck, “Reshaping the Germanic Economy of Honour: Gift Giving in J. R. R. Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings“, in The World Tolkien Built, ed. R. Vink (Beverwijk: Unquendor & Uitgeverij IJmond, 2019), 7-26 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  12. Thijs Porck, “New Roads and Secret Gates, Waiting around the Corner: Investigating Tolkien’s Other Anglo-Saxon Sources”, in Tolkien Among Scholars, ed. N. Kuijpers, R. Vink & C. van Zon (s.l.: Unquendor & Uitgeverij IJmond, 2017), 49-64 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  13. Thijs Porck, “Tolkien Among Scholars”, in Tolkien Among Scholars, ed. N. Kuijpers, R. Vink & C. van Zon (s.l.: Unquendor & Uitgeverij IJmond, 2017), 7-16 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  14. Thijs Porck, “The Bones in the Soup: The Anglo-Saxon Flavour of Tolkien’s The Hobbit“, in Lembas Extra: 2012 Edition, ed. C. van Zon (Beekbergen: Tolkien Genootschap Unquendor, 2012), 65–74 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  15. Thijs Porck, “De Brederodekroniek voor Yolande van Lalaing”, in Yolande de Lalaing (1422-1497), kasteelvrouwe van Brederode, ed. E. den Hartog en H. Wijsman (Haarlem: Kastelenstichting Holland en Zeeland, 2009), 36–66 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]

Datasets

  1. Thijs Porck, “Andreas Thesaurus”, DataverseNL, V1, 2021, https://doi.org/10.34894/IHVH0Z
  2. Thijs Porck, “Beowulf Thesaurus”, DataverseNL, V1, 2021, https://doi.org/10.34894/TOTFGZ
  3. Thijs Porck, “Old English Martyrology Thesaurus”, DataverseNL, V1, 2021, https://doi.org/10.34894/QZCNW1.

Scholarly journal articles in Dutch

  1. Thijs Porck, “De schatten uit het schip: Sutton Hoo, de Beowulf en The Dig”, Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 35 (2021), 76-86.
  2. Thijs Porck, “Eald enta geweorc: Herinneringen aan de Romeinen en de klassieken in vroegmiddeleeuws Engeland”, Madoc. Tijdschrijft over de Middeleeuwen 34 (2020), 141-148.
  3. Thijs Porck, “De Middeleeuwen in Midden-aarde: J. R. R. Tolkien en zijn Oudengelse inspiratiebronnen”, in De populaire Middeleeuwen, special issue Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 32 (2018), 195–205 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  4. Thijs Porck, “Wie zijn verleden verloochent, verloochent zichzelf: Een interview met Rolf H. Bremmer Jr over Friezen in de Middeleeuwen”, Madoc: Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 31 (2017), 140-147 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE] 
  5. Thijs Porck, “Unieke bron over het Katwijks uit 1879 aan het licht gebracht”, Neerlandistiek.nl (10-05-2017) [publication in e-journal]
  6. Thijs Porck, “Eald enta geweorc: De Romeinen in vroegmiddeleeuws Engeland (ca. 450-1100)”, in Barbaren, special issue of Frons: Blad voor Leidse Classici 37: 5 (2017), 37-41 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  7. Thijs Porck, “Everzwijn”, in Dertig Dieren in de Middeleeuwen, special issue of Madoc: Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 30 (2016), 206-207 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  8. Thijs Porck, “Vergrijzing in een Oudengels heldendicht. De rol van oude koningen in de Beowulf“, Madoc. Tijdschrift over de Middeleeuwen 26 (2012), 66–76 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]

Minor contributions to edited volumes and special issues

  1. Thijs Porck, “Runenoefeningen. De Oudgermanistiek in Leidse kinderschoenen”, in Tot publijcque dienst der studie: Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana, ed. Wim van Anrooij & Paul Hoftijzer (Hilversum: Verloren, 2023), 118-119 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  2. Thijs Porck & Sander Stolk, “Preface: Exploring Early Medieval English Eloquence: A Digital Humanities Approach with A Thesaurus of Old English and Evoke“, in Exploring Early Medieval English Eloquence: A Digital Humanities Approach with A Thesaurus of Old English and Evoke, ed. Thijs Porck & Sander Stolk, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 81: 3-4 (2021), 293-295
  3. Thijs Porck, Amos van Baalen & Jodie Mann, “Preface: Scholarly Correspondence on Medieval Germanic Language and Literature“, in Scholarly Correspondence on Medieval Germanic Language and Literature, ed. Thijs Porck, Amos van Baalen & Jodie Man, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 78:2-3 (2018), 153-154
  4. Thijs Porck, “Ih wallota sumaro enti wintro sehstic: The Familiar and the Foreign in Old Germanic Studies“, in The Familiar and the Foreign in Old Gemanic Studies, ed. Thijs Porck, special issue of Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 77: 3-4 (2017), 489-492 [Open Access publication]
  5. Thijs Porck, “Overview of One Hundred Years of Editors of Neophilologus“, in Tracing Paradigms: One Hundred Years of Neophilologus, ed. Rolf H. Bremmer Jr, Thijs Porck, Frans Ruiter and Usha Wilbers (s.l.: Springer, 2016), 29-31

Pedagogical publications

  1. Thijs Porck, “Project MEME: Meme-ing Early Medieval English”, TOEBI Newsletter 38 (2021), 26-33.
  2. Thijs Porck, “Let Them Be Vlogged! Video Assignments for the Old English Classroom”, TOEBI Newsletter 37 (2020), 37-42 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  3. Thijs Porck, “Beowulf: A Dutch Paper Doll Pirate History (1934)”, TOEBI Newsletter 37 (2020), 25-27 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  4. Amos van Baalen, Jennifer Jansen, Krista A. Murchison & Thijs Porck, “The Leiden University Old English ColloQuest”, TOEBI Newsletter 35 (2018), 16-20 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE] 
  5. Amos van Baalen, Jennifer Jansen, Krista A. Murchison & Thijs Porck (eds.), The Leiden University Old English Colloquest (2018) [Open Access publication]
  6. Thijs Porck & Jodie Mann, “Blanded leornung: Three Digital Approaches to Teaching Old English”, TOEBI Newsletter 34 (2017), 5-13 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  7. Thijs Porck, “Uncovering the Medieval in Middle-earth: Studying Tolkien at Leiden University”, Lembas Katern (2017), 161-162 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]

Reviews

  1. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] Eleanor Parker, Winters in the World: A Journey through the Anglo-Saxon Year“, Medium Ævum (forthc.)
  2. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] Lindy Brady (ed.), Old English Tradition: Essays in Honor of J. R. Hall“, Journal of British Studies 62:4 (2023): 1048-1049.
  3. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] Mark Atherton, Complete Old English: A Comprehensive Guide to Reading and Understanding Old English with Original Texts“, English Studies (2022).
  4. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] Ursula Lenker and Lucia Kornexl (eds.). Anglo-Saxon Micro-Texts“, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 80 (2020), 233-236.
  5. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] H. Gneuss and M. Lapidge, Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts. A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments Written or Owned in England up to 1100“, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 76 (2016), 551-553
  6. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] J. D. Niles, The Idea of Anglo-Saxon England 1066-1901. Remembering, Forgetting, Deciphering, and Renewing the Past“, Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik 76 (2016), 435–438
  7. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] E. Treharne, Living through Conquest: The Politics of Early English, 1020-1220“, English Studies 96 (2015), 225–226
  8. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] R.D. Fulk, An Introductory Grammar of Old English with an Anthology of Readings“, SELIM: Journal of the Spanish Society for Mediaeval English Language and Literature 20 (2013-2014), 287-290 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]
  9. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] R.M. Hogg and R.D. Fulk,A Grammar of Old English. Volume 2: Morphology“, English Studies 94 (2013), 733–734
  10. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] T. Bolton, The Empire of Cnut the Great: Conquest and the Consolidation of Power in Northern Europe in the Early Eleventh Century“, English Studies 94 (2013), 235–237
  11. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] The Old English Boethius. An Edition of the Old English Versions of Boethius’s De Consolatione Philosophiae, ed. M. Godden and S. Irvine“, English Studies 92 (2011), 100–102
  12. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] E.R. Anderson, Understanding Beowulf as an Indo-European Epic: A Study in Comparative Mythology“, English Studies 92 (2011), 693–702
  13. Thijs Porck, “[Review of] J. Tigelaar, Brabants historie ontvouwd. Die alder excellenste cronyke van Brabant en het Brabantse geschiedbeeld anno 1500″, Noordbrabants Historisch Jaarboek 24 (2007), 227–230 [publisher’s version PDF in CORE]