Eric Lacey

Biography

Eric Lacey has previously taught at the department of English at University College London and the department of History at the University of Winchester. Eric is Programme Leader for the BSc English Linguistics with Forensic Linguistics. In addition to Old and Middle English, Eric teaches Proto-Indo-European, semantics, the history of the English language, and syntax and morphology.

Research Interest

His research interests lie at the intersections of history, linguistics and literature, and are largely oriented around the ways in which people perceived and rationalised their experiences and their environment. He is currently completing a monograph titled Birds and Bird-lore in the Literature of Anglo-Saxon England, and, with Martin Locker, is editing a collection of essays on medieval attitudes towards, and perceptions of, the stars and the sky (provisionally titled Starcræft: Watching the Heavens in the Middle Ages). He is also currently working on the formation of the scientific tradition in Middle English, the development of falconry in early and high medieval Europe, and is a contributor to the Year’s Work in English Studies, where he reviews scholarship on Old English.