Author: John R. C. Martyn

John Martyn has been appointed as a Principal Fellow in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia. During the last year, besides having two more books accepted for publication – the present one on Pope Gregory”s Concern for Women (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2011), the other on an Unknown Gregorian Manuscript (PIMS, Toronto, 2012) – he gave a lecture in July on “Pope Gregory”s attack on Banquets” at the annual Mediaeval Conference in Leeds, and chaired a session on “Saint Augustine”. He recently lectured to the senior Fine Arts students at Melbourne University, on the illuminations in the Gregorian manuscript.After preparing a film script based on his book The Siege of Mazagäo (Peter Lang, 1994), he is working as the associate producer and historical adviser for a major historical film based on the siege. The filming should start in 2012. He has also had reviews published recently on Judith Herrin”s Byzantium (Penguin, 2007), and on Paul A. Hayward”s two volumes of The Winchcombe and Coventry Chronicles (Arizona Centre for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Tempe, 2010).