Publications
Miriam Adan Jones, ‘Conversion as Convergence: Gregory the Great Confronting Pagan and Jewish Influences in Anglo-Saxon Christianity’, in M. Sághy and E. Schoolman (eds.), Pagans and Christians in the Late Roman Empire: New Evidence, New Approaches (4th-8th Centuries), CEU Medievalia 18 (Budapest: CEU Press, 2017), 151-163.
Miriam Adan Jones, ‘The Language of Baptism in Early Anglo-Saxon England: The Case for Old English’, Studies in Church History 53 (2017): 39-50.
Miriam Adan Jones, ‘A Chosen Missionary People? Willibrord, Boniface, and the Election of the Angli‘, Medieval Worlds 3 (2016): 98-115.
M.A. Jones, ‘Origen’s Authority: Exegetical Borrowings and Doctrinal Departures in Gregory the Great’s Expositio in Canticum canticorum’, in A.-C. Jacobsen (ed.), Origeniana Undecima: Origen and Origenism in the History of Western Thought, BETL 279 (Leuven: Peeters, 2016): 575-585. Projects
My doctoral project, ‘Catholics of the English Race’ explores the overlap between ethnic and ecclesiological categories in England in the seventh and eighth centuries. When Anglo-Saxon authors speak of the ‘church of the English’, what do they mean? How does this ethnically circumscribed church relate to other ecclesiological categories such as the diocese, the province, or the universal church?
The sources for my study include letters, histories, homilies and sermons, biblical commentaries and hagiographies. By analyzing these sources’ use of ethnic and ecclesiological language, I aim to reconstruct a picture of the way ethnicity could function as an ecclesiological category in early medieval Britain.
My work is funded by a PhDs in the Humanities grant from the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO) and supervised by prof. dr. Hagit Amirav and prof. dr. Paul van Geest.
