Matthew Firth

Experience

• 2025–present
  Research fellow in Medieval History, Flinders University

Education

• 2022 
  Flinders University, PhD
• 2017 
  University of New England, MHist
• 2003 
  University of Sydney, BA

Publications

• 2026
  The Tenth Century as a Locus for Institutional Queenship in England, Haskins Society Journal
• 2025
  Medieval English Attitudes to the Outside World, Parergon
• 2025
  Æthelflæd and the Lacunae in Cotton Charter VIII.27 (S221), Notes & Queries
• 2025
  Remembering England: Cultural Memory in the Sagas of Icelanders,
• 2025
  'Cesare splendidior': Anglo-Norman Memories of Æthelflæd of Mercia, Pre-conquest History and its Medieval Reception: Writing England's Past
• 2025
  Pre-conquest History and its Medieval Reception: Writing England's Past ,
• 2025
  Víking Across Conversion: Depictions of Víkingar in the Sagas of Icelanders, Journal of Medieval History
• 2024
  What's in a Name? Tracing the Origins of Alfred's 'the Great', English Historical Review
• 2024
  Early English Queens, 850-1000: Potestas Reginae,
• 2024
  Eadwig’s Coronation Scandal: Sexuality, Rhetoric and the Vulnerability of Reputation, Premodern Ruling Sexualities: Representation, Identity, and Power
• 2023
  Saxo Grammaticus's Account of the Viking Age Site on the Danish Island of Hjarnø in Gesta Danorum, Scandinavian Studies
• 2023
  The Lonely Afterlives of Early English Queens, Neophilologus
• 2023
  Memories of Viking Age Cultural Contact: England in the Íslendingasögur, Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History
• 2023
  Rage and Lust in the Afterlives of King Edgar the Peaceful, Emotional Alterity in the Medieval North Sea World
• 2023
  Parallels for cetacean trap feeding and tread‐water feeding in the historical record across two millennia, Marine Mammal Science
• 2023
  Identifying Queenship in Pre-Conquest England, Norman to Plantagenet Consorts
• 2023
  The Vikings and Francia, 799–936, Routledge Handbook of French History
• 2022
  On the Dating of the Norse Siege of Chester, Notes & Queries
• 2022
  Deconstructing the Female Antagonist of the Coronation Scandal in B's Vita Dunstani, English Studies
• 2020
  Kingship and Maritime Power in 10th‐Century England, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology
• 2020
  Æthelred II ‘the Unready’ and the Role of Kingship in Gunnlaugs saga Ormstungu, The Court Historian
• 2020
  The Character of the Treacherous Woman in the passiones of Early Medieval English Royal Martyrs, Royal Studies Journal
• 2019
  The Broken Body in Eleventh to Thirteenth-Century Anglo-Scandinavian Literature, Comitatus
• 2018
  The Politics of Hegemony and the 'Empires' of Anglo-Saxon England, Cerae
• 2017
  Constructing a King: William of Malmesbury and the Life of Æthelstan, Journal of the Australian Early Medieval Association
• 2017
  Integration, Assimilation, Annexation: Æthelstan and the Anglo-Saxon Hegemony in York, Melbourne Historical Journal
• 2016
  London Under Danish Rule: Cnut's Politics and Policies as a Demonstration of Power, Eras
• 2016
  Allegories of Sight: Blinding and Power in Late Anglo-Saxon England, Cerae

Grants and Contracts

• 2026
  Humfrey Wanley Visiting Fellowship

  Role:

  Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford

• 2025
  Discovery Early Career Researcher Award

  Role:

  Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Australian Research Council

• 2024
  Early Career Fellowship

  Role:

  Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Australian Historical Association

• 2024
  Humanities Travelling Fellowship

  Role:

  Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Australian Academy of the Humanities

• 2023
  Early Career Fellowship

  Role:

  Fellow

  Funding Source:

  Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies

• 2019
  Flinders University Research Scholarship

  Role:

  PhD Researcher (Medieval Studies)

  Funding Source:

  Flinders University

Professional Memberships

• Royal Historical Society
• Australian and New Zealand Association for Medieval and Early Modern Studies
• Australian Early Medieval Association
• Viking Society for Northern Research
• Australian Historical Association

Research Areas

• British And Irish Literature (200503)
• British History (210305)
• European History (Excl. British, Classical Greek And Roman) (210307)