Other Research

Editions of medieval Latin texts often contain errors that can be corrected by checking the manuscripts. If you’d like to be able to cite a certain passage without worrying that you might be building a castle on sand, I can use some or all of the available manuscripts to produce a more reliable edition of it for you.

Some passages are difficult because they contain mistakes (editorial, scribal or authorial) or stubborn ambiguities or unusual constructions. As an editor and a lexicographer, I can usually resolve such difficulties. (NB: not all puzzles can be definitively solved, and there may be residual uncertainty.)

A huge number of unexplored sources can now be searched online. If you’re looking for material on a certain topic and it would be inefficient for you to sift through a pile of search results, I can do this for you. If you like, I can also give you a preliminary analysis of any resulting findings (see Testimonials below).

Small tasks are £60/hour (minimum charge £25). Larger ones are £300/day, £1000/week, £4K/month.

“this is joint work with Mark Thakkar, who conducted the painstaking work of combing through the Latin texts, and came up with many of the key concepts in the analysis! Mark is brilliant” – Catarina (professor)