John Mckinnell's Outputs (10)

'Modern Productions of Medieval English Drama'. (2011)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2011). 'Modern Productions of Medieval English Drama'. In R. Beadle (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Theatre. (2nd ed.). Cambridge University Press

A survey of major productions of medieval English plays since the beginnings of modern revival of them, ca. 1900, with an analysis of what has been learned about medieval English theatre from these productions.

The Fantasy Giantess: Brana in 'Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra'. (2009)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2009). The Fantasy Giantess: Brana in 'Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra'. In Á. Jakobsson, A. Lassen, & A. Ney (Eds.), Fornaldarsagaerne: Myter og Virkelighed. Museum Tusculanum

A literary and psychological analysis of the function of the giantess in the Old Norse legendary saga 'Hálfdanar saga Brönufóstra'

'The Narrator as Everyone's Voice: A Project to Produce the Ecerinis of Albertino Mussato'. (2007)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2007). 'The Narrator as Everyone's Voice: A Project to Produce the Ecerinis of Albertino Mussato'. In P. Butterfield (Ed.), The Narrator, the Expositor, and the Prompter in European Medieval Theatre. Brepols Publishers

A plan for a reconstruction of the original staging methods of the 'Ecerinis' of Albertino Mussato (Padua, ca. 1318); the play is important as the first known attempt by a medieval humanist to compose a 'classical' tragedy.

'Why did Christians Continue to Find Pagan Myths Useful?'. (2007)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2007). 'Why did Christians Continue to Find Pagan Myths Useful?'. In J. P. Schjødt, P. Hermann, & R. T. Kristensen (Eds.), Reflections on Old Norse Myths. Brepols Publishers

This article considers the problem of why early Christian pseakers of Germanic languages preserved the myths of their heathen ancestors. It concludes that in most Germanic societies the major reasons for preservation were their usefulness in connecti... Read More about 'Why did Christians Continue to Find Pagan Myths Useful?'..

'Hamðismál'. (2007)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2007). 'Hamðismál'. In A. Faulkes (Ed.), 'A New Introduction to Old Norse. Part II - Reader' (363-382). (4th ed.). Viking Society for Northern Research

An student edition of the Old Norse heroic poem 'Hamðismál'

Encounters with Völur (2003)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2003). Encounters with Völur. In M. C. Ross (Ed.), Old Norse myths, literature and society (110-131). University Press of Southern Denmark

‘Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Hyndluljóð’ (2002)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2002). ‘Þorgerðr Hölgabrúðr and Hyndluljóð’. In R. Simek, & W. Heizmann (Eds.), Mythological Women. Studies in Memory of Lotte Motz (265-290)

Eddic Poetry in Anglo-Scandinavian Northern England (2001)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2001). Eddic Poetry in Anglo-Scandinavian Northern England. In J. Graham-Campbell, R. Hall, J. Jesch, & D. Parsons (Eds.), Vikings and the Danelaw. Select Papers from the Proceedings of the Thirteenth Viking Congress (327-344). Oxbow

Ögmundar þáttr: Versions, Structure and Ideology (2001)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2001). Ögmundar þáttr: Versions, Structure and Ideology. In Á. Egilsdóttir, & R. Simek (Eds.), Sagnaheimur. Studies in Honour of Hermann Pálsson (159-174). (Studia Medievalia Septentrionalia). Fassbaender

Significant Gestures: Two Medieval Illustrations of Classical Theatre (2001)
Book Chapter
McKinnell, J. (2001). Significant Gestures: Two Medieval Illustrations of Classical Theatre. In S. Carpenter, P. King, & P. Meredith (Eds.), Porci ante margaritam : essays in honour of Meg Twycross (289-320). University of Leicester

This article uses two important manuscript illustrations to contrast fourteenth-century ideas about the performance of classical tragedy, which were based on rather inaccurate antiquarian reconstruction, with those for the comedies of Terence, which... Read More about Significant Gestures: Two Medieval Illustrations of Classical Theatre.