Megan Perry

Dr. Megan Renz Perry is a recent graduate of Yale University’s Medieval Studies Program, and an intellectual historian of the early Middle Ages. Within this period, which spans the fall of Rome to the twelfth-century Renaissance, she works on the histories of language, ideas, and liberal education. Her current monograph-in-progress, provisionally titled ‘The Cræft of Assembly: Political Vision in the Age of Alfred’, explains the political import of the Old English translation of Gregory I’s Pastoral Rule wrought at the court of Alfred the Great (871–899). This translation, she argues, locates Alfred, the first ‘king of the Angles and Saxons’, in the longer tradition of republicanism.

Dr. Perry’s research uses the languages of Medieval Latin and Old English. She can compose prose in both, and, if required, speak Latin. Her work on glossed classroom manuscripts appeared in the annual New Medieval Literatures, vol. 25; and she has a forthcoming article on the usage Old English word sceal (‘must’) in the collected proceedings of her field’s international conference. Her next project will explore ideas about giving birth in Latin and early medieval vernacular texts.

EDUCATION
BA in University Scholars Program from Baylor University
MA in History from University of Kentucky
MA in Medieval Studies from Yale University
MPhil in Medieval Studies from Yale University
Ph.D. in Medieval Studies from Yale University