Biography

Maio NAGASHIMA (he/him) is a PhD candidate at the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, the University of Cambridge. His chief interests lie in the European intellectual milieu in which medieval Irish adaptations of classical Latin epics were produced. His doctoral research explores the manuscript tradition of In Cath Catharda, the late 12th- or early 13th-century Irish adaptation of Lucan’s Bellum Civile, and the influence of the contemporaenous Lucanian exegesis upon the production and transmission of the vernacular work. He has recently contributed a chapter to Clarke, M., et al. (eds.), Classical Antiquity and Medieval Ireland (London, Bloomsbury: 2024).