Biography
Peter Dendle is a Professor of English at Penn State Mont Alto, where he teaches a range of classes in literature, writing, folklore, and philosophy.
Publications
"Experiences of Evil: The Devil in the Early Middle Ages" - June, 2025
Foreword - 2023
Yasmine Musharbash and Geir Henning Presterudstuen, eds. "Monster Anthropology in Australasia and Beyond." Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. , Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute - December, 2017
M.R. Rambaran-Olm, "John the Baptist's Prayer or The Descent into Hell from the Exeter Book: Text, Translation, and Critical Study." Cambridge, UK: D.S. Brewer, 2014., Speculum - April, 2017
Philip C. Almond. The Devil: A New Biography. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2014., Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft - 2016
Georges Minois. The Atheist’s Bible: The Most Dangerous Book that Never Existed. Trans. Lys Ann Weiss. University of Chicago Press, 2012. - 2015
Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden
Collaborator: Alain Touwaide, Co-Editor
Colin Adams. "Zombies & Calculus", Math Horizons - September, 2015
Collaborator: Kira Hamman, Co-Author
Allen J. Frantzen. Anglo-Saxon Keywords. Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. - January, 2015
Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon England - January 22, 2015
"Demons of the Water: Anglo-Saxon Responses to the Gerasene Demoniac" - 2014
"Anglo-Saxonism in the Harry Potter Series", Critical Insights: Contemporary Speculative Fiction - May, 2013
The Devil in Society in Premodern Europe - October, 2012
Collaborator: Richard Raiswell, Co-Editor
Epilogue: Inscribing the Devil in Cultural Contexts, The Devil in Premodern Society - October, 2012
Collaborator: Richard Raiswell, Co-Author
The Zombie Movie Encyclopedia, Volume 2: 2000-2010 - September, 2012
The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous - April, 2012
Collaborator: Asa Mittman, Co-Editor
Conclusion: Monsters and the Twenty-first Century: The Preternatural in an Age of Scientific Consensus, The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous - April, 2012
"Cryptozoology and the Paranormal in Harry Potter: Truth and Belief at the Borders of Consensus", Children's Literature Association Quarterly - December 31, 2011
"Ode 1 to Car Talk", Light: A Quarterly of Light Verse - October, 2011
"And the Dead Shall Inherit the Earth" (Section Preface), Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human - September, 2011
"Zombie Movies and the Millennial Generation", Better Off Dead: The Evolution of the Zombie as Post-Human - September, 2011
The Natural and the Supernatural in the Middle Ages, The Medieval Review - 2009
"The Old English Life of Malchus and Two Vernacular Tales from the Vitas Patrum in MS Cotton Otho C.i: A Translation", English Studies - November, 2009
"Monsters, Creatures, and Pets at Hogwarts: Animal Stewardship in the World of Harry Potter", Critical Perspectives on Harry Potter - January, 2009
"Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden" - 2008
"Introduction", Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden - 2008
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"Plants in the Medieval Cosmos: Herbs, Divine Potency, and the Scala natura", Health and Healing from the Medieval Garden - 2008
Introduction, Health and Healing in the Medieval Garden: Proceedings from the 15th annual Medieval Studies Conference at Pennsylvania State University - 2008
Collaborator: Alain Touwaide
6 reviews of books, theses, and articles, Year's Work in Old English Studies - 2008
"Demon Possession in Anglo-Saxon and Early Modern England: Continuity and Evolution in Social Context", Journal of British Studies - October, 2008
Collaborator: Richard Raiswell; Peter Dendle
"The Age of Faith": Everyone in the Middle Ages Believed in God, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages - 2007
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The Middle Ages were a Superstitious Time, Misconceptions about the Middle Ages - 2007
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The Zombie as Barometer of Cultural Anxiety, Monsters and the Monstrous: Myths and Metaphors of Enduring Evil - 2007
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"Gregory of Tours", Irish Journal of Gothic and Horror Studies - October, 2007
Gábor Klaniczay and Éva Pócs, eds. "Communicating with the Spirits", The Medieval Review - January, 2007
Benjamin C. Withers and Jonathan Wilcox, "Naked before God: Uncovering the Body in Anglo-Saxon England", Modern Philology - 2006
Helen Gittos and M. Bradford Bedingfield, eds. "The Liturgy of the Late Anglo-Saxon Church", Studia Neophilologica - 2006
How Naked is Juliana?, Philological Quarterly - 2006
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How Naked is Juliana?, Philological Quarterly - 2006
The Textual Transmission of the Old English 'Loss of Cattle' Charm, Journal of English and Germanic Philology - October, 2006
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Cryptozoology in the Medieval and Modern Worlds, Folklore - August, 2006
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Mark Amodio and Katherine O'Brien O'Keeffe, eds. "Unlocking the Wordhord: Anglo-Saxon Studies in Memory of Edward B. Irving, Jr.", Modern Language Review - 2005
R.D. Fulk and Christopher M. Cain, "A History of Old English Literature ", The Medieval Review (online, hosted by University of Michigan) - 2005
Schizophrenia in the Early Middle Ages: Some Negative Evidence, Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry - January, 2005
Review of Armando Maggi, "Satan's Rhetoric: A Study of Renaissance Demonology" (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001). - 2001