T. L. Burton

T. L. Burton (Thomas Lingen (Tom) Burton) is a professor at the University of Adelaide and a reputed scholar of medieval English literature, language, and dialectics. He is the editor of the two volume "Sidrak and Bokkus", which once was one of the most popular books in Middle English. In addition to numerous publications on Middle English, Burton has also written books for a more general audience. He is a founding director of the Chaucer Studio, a non-profit organization which produces recordings in period pronunciation of Middle English texts and makes these available as instructional aids. Tom Burton has won several prizes for excellence in teaching.

Publications

Editing

*Burton, Tom. 'Mistranslation or Adaptation in Medieval Manuscripts: Can One Tell the Difference?' "Lingua Humanitatis" 2.2 (Oct. 2002): 129-41.
*Burton, Tom. "Sidrak and Bokkus: A Parallel-Text Edition from Bodleian Library, MS Laud Misc. 559 and British Library, MS Lansdowne 793". 2 Vols, Early English Text Society, Original Series 311 and 312. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1998–99.
*Burton, Tom. ‘Proverbs, Sentences, and Proverbial Phrases from the English Sidrak'. "Mediaeval Studies" 51 (1989): 329–54.
*Burton, Tom. ‘The Crocodile as the Symbol of an Evil Woman: A Medieval Interpretation of the Crocodile–Trochilus Relationship'. "Parergon" 20 (1978): 25–33.
*Burton, Tom. ‘Late Fifteenth-Century "Terms of Association" in MS Pepys 1047'. "Notes and Queries" 223 (1978): 7–12.
*Burton, Tom. ‘Sidrak on Reproduction and Sexual Love'. "Medical History" 19 (1975): 286–302.

Middle English Dialectology

*Burton, Tom. ‘On the Current State of Middle English Dialectology'. Leeds Studies in English NS 22 (1991): 167–208. [Discussing A Linguistic Atlas of Late Mediaeval English, by Angus McIntosh, M.L. Samuels, and Michael Benskin (Aberdeen UP, 1986).]

General

*Burton, Tom. "Words, Words, Words". University Radio 5UV, 1995
*Burton, Tom. "Words in Your Ear". Wakefield Press, 1999,
*Burton, Tom. "Long Words Bother Me". Sutton Publishing, 2004. This is the UK republication, in one volume, for the two above-cited works.

External links

* [http://www.arts.adelaide.edu.au/humanities/people/english/tburton.html Burton's faculty homepage at the University of Adelaide]