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A Cultural History of Myth in the Medieval West, ed. Martha Bayless (London: Bloomsbury Academic). In preparation.Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Societies, ed. Martha Bayless, Jonas Lillequist, and Lewis Webb (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021).A Cultural History of Comedy in the Middle Ages (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020).Fifteen Medieval Latin Parodies (Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2018).Sin and Filth in Medieval Culture: The Devil in the Latrine (New York and London: Routledge, 2012).Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae, ed. Martha Bayless and Michael Lapidge (Dublin: Dublin Institute for Advanced Studies, 1998). This is an edition and commentary of an 8th-century compendium of learned and folk sources.Parody in the Middle Ages: The Latin Tradition (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1996).On games:“Early Medieval Board Games: Issues of Power and Gender," in Gender and Status Competition in Pre-Modern Culture, ed. Martha Bayless, Jonas Lillequist, and Lewis Webb (Turnhout: Brepols, 2021), pp. 185–207.“Alea, Tæfl, and Related Games: Vocabulary and Context” in Latin Learning and English Lore, ed. Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe and Andy Orchard, 2 vols. (University of Toronto Press, 2005), II, pp. 9-27.On medieval bread:“Women, Bread, and the Supernatural in Early Medieval Culture,” in Cultivating the Earth and Nurturing the Body and Soul: Daily Life in Early Medieval England, ed. Christine Voth (Brepols, in press, forthcoming 2022.)“The Long Life of Tiny Bread,” Folklore 130 (2019), 352–72On magic:“Fairies from Walter Map to European Folklore,” in Latin Literatures in Medieval and Early Modern Times, ed. Francesco Stella, Lucie Doležalová, and Danuta Shanzer (John Benjamins, forthcoming 2022).On humor:“Medieval Humour in Serious Contexts: Speaking Humour to Power,” in The Palgrave Handbook of Humour, History, and Methodology, ed. Daniel Derrin and Hannah Burows (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2021), pp. 257–73. “The Pleasures of the Ludic,” in Il gioco nella società e nella cultura dell’alto medioevo (Spoleto: CISAM, 2018), pp. 95–110.“Merriment, Entertainment, and Community in Anglo-Saxon Culture,” in The Daily Lives of the Anglo-Saxons, ed. C. Biggam, C. Hough and D. Izdebska (Tempe: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 2018), pp. 239–56.“Is the Comic World a Paradise for Women? Medieval Models of Portable Utopia,” in Humour, Laughter, and the (Un)making of Gender: Historical and Cultural Perspectives, ed. Anna Foka and Jonas Lillequist (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015), pp. 32–45.“Subversion” in A Social History of England, 900-1200, ed. Julia Crick and Elisabeth van Houts (Cambridge University Press, 2011), pp. 402-409.“Humour and the Comic in Anglo-Saxon England” in English Medieval Comedy, ed. Sandra Hordis and Paul Hardwick (Turnhout: Brepols, 2007), pp. 13-30.“Alcuin’s Disputatio Pippini and the Early Medieval Riddle Tradition” in Humour, History and Politics in Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, ed. Guy Halsall (Cambridge University Press, 2001), pp. 157-78.On dance:“The Fuller Brooch and Anglo-Saxon Depictions of Dance,” Anglo-Saxon England 45 (2016), 183–212.            [Awarded the bi-annual Best Essay prize by the International Society for the Study of Early Medieval England, 2018.]On the medieval in modern popular culture:“Disney’s Castles and the Work of the Medieval in the Magic Kingdom,” in Disney’s Medievalisms, ed. Susan Aronstein and Tison Pugh (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012), pp. 185-99.“Danny Kaye and the ‘Fairy Tale’ of Queerness in The Court Jester,” in Queer Movie Medievalisms, ed. Kathleen Coyne Kelly and Tison Pugh (Ashgate, 2009), pp. 185-200.