Medieval Irish history and literature; medieval Welsh history and literature; medieval hagiography; saints’ cults; violence in the medieval world; intellectual history and the exchange of ideas in the seventh through thirteenth centuries; digital humanities

Sarah Waidler completed a Ph.D. in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge which examined the composition of the Lives of Irish saints during the Central Middle Ages, addressing issues such as dating, historical and literary context and the intellectual environment in which they were created. She worked on the Cambridge-based project ‘Mapping Conversion: A Database of Conversion’ funded by the Isaac Newton Trust and was an O’Donovan Scholar at the School of Celtic Studies, Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies and taught in the Department of Early Irish at Maynooth University. She is currently working on a book on ecclesiastical violence in the medieval Gaelic world and is editing a collection of articles resulting from a conference on Defining the Boundaries of Celtic Hagiography held at the Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies in 2018.

Ph.D. University of Cambridge (2016); M.Litt. University of Glasgow (2009); B.A./M.A. University of St Andrews (2008)

Gallagher, R., J. Key, M. Ní Mhaonaigh, H. Oxenham, S. Waidler and M. Williams, ‘Mapping Conversion: A Database of Conversion Episodes in Medieval Insular Hagiography’ (2016, updated 2017), http://www.asnc.cam.ac.uk/mapping/

Hoyland, R. and S. Waidler, ‘Adomnán’s De Locis Sanctis and the Seventh-Century Near East’, English Historical Review 129 (2014), pp. 787–807

Quaestio Insularis: Selected Proceedings of the Cambridge Colloquium in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic 13, ed. A. Hicklin, R. Gallagher, S. Nurmio, J. Shortt-Butler, R. R. Stanciu, and S. Waidler (Cambridge, 2014)

P. Piovanelli, ‘The Adventures of the Apocrypha in Ethiopia’ in Languages and Cultures of Eastern Christianity: Ethiopian, trans. from the French by S. Waidler, ed. A. Bausi, The Worlds of Eastern Christianity, 300–1500, IV (Ashgate Variorum, 2012)

Book reviews

S. Waidler, ‘Review of Sacred Histories: A Festschrift for Máire Herbert edited by J. Carey, K. Murray and C. Ó Dochartaigh’ Celtica 29 (2017), pp. 308–12

S. Waidler, ‘Review of The Cult of Relics in Early Medieval Ireland by Niamh Wycherley’, Early Medieval Europe 26 (2018), pp. 253–55