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Dr Brigid Ehrmantraut

Associate Lecturer in Latin and in the History of the British Isles, c.1100-1500

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 1954

Email

bke1@st-andrews.ac.uk

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Biography

Brigid Ehrmantraut received her PhD from the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic at the University of Cambridge in 2023. She also holds an MPhil in Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic from Cambridge (2019) and an AB in Classics from Princeton University (2018). Before joining the School of History at 58³Ô¹Ï, she was a Junior Research Fellow at St John's College, Cambridge (2023–25).

Teaching

Undergraduate:

The Kingdom of the Scots, c. 900–1707 (ME1006)

Postgraduate:

Latin (HE5108–9/MS5125–6)

Contributions to Approaches to Medieval Studies 1 and 2 (MS5103–4)Ìý

MLitt Special Topics (HE5206–7) and Directed Reading (MS5033–4)

Research areas

Brigid Ehrmantraut is a philologist and cultural and intellectual historian of medieval Britian and Ireland. Her research and teaching interests include medieval Irish (Gaelic) and Welsh language, literature, and history; Celtic philology; classical and medieval Latin; classical reception and textual transmission; translation studies; mythography and pseudohistory; magic and the supernatural; and landscape and cultural memory studies. Her first monograph, Classical Myth in Medieval Ireland (D. S. Brewer, 2025), examined the reception and translation of classical mythology in medieval Ireland. She is currently working on the intersection of classical learning, vernacular translation, and Irish accounts of battles between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries.Ìý

Brigid is also interested in outreach and in making the Middle Ages more accessible to a wider audience. Her trade book Celtic Magic: A Practitioner's Guide (Thames & Hudson, 2026) introduces ancient and medieval magical texts and practices from Celtic-speaking areas to a general readership.

PhD supervision

• GwenffrewiÌýMorgan

Selected publications

• Ehrmantraut, B., 9 Sept 2025, Cambridge: D. S. Brewer. 206 p. (Studies in Celtic History ; no. 49)

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Ehrmantraut, B., 26 Feb 2026, London: Thames and Hudson Ltd. 207 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Book

• Open access
  Ehrmantraut, B., 27 Mar 2026, In: Peritia. 36, p. 191–217

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

• Open access
  Ehrmantraut, B., 11 Jul 2024, Classical antiquity and medieval Ireland: an anthology of medieval Irish texts and interpretations. Clarke, M., Poppe, E. & Torrance, I. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 221–228 8 p. (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception ).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access
  Ehrmantraut, B., 11 Jul 2024, Classical antiquity and medieval Ireland: an anthology of medieval Irish texts and interpretations. Clarke, M., E. P. & Torrance, I. (eds.). London: Bloomsbury Academic, p. 181-192 13 p. (Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access
  Ehrmantraut, B., 1 Dec 2022, In: Celtica. 34, p. 39–59

  Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review

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