Krista A. Milne researches book history and medieval English and French literature at Leiden University.

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Krista A. Milne is the author of three books about the history of medieval literature and culture: The Destruction of Medieval Manuscripts in England (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025), Textual and Artistic Representations of Guide Dogs in Northwestern Europe, 1100 to 1500 (London: Palgrave, forthcoming 2025) and Manuals for Penitents in Medieval England: from ‘Ancrene Wisse’ to ‘The Parson’s Tale’ (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2021). She has also published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals such as French Studies and Modern Language Review.

Combining the tools and methods of digital humanities, quantitative book history and literary studies, Milne’s research seeks answers to longstanding questions about medieval books and their readers by using some of the quantitative and digital methods that are typically reserved for the “hard” sciences. Her work has been awarded multiple individual grants, including a Dutch Research Council Veni Grant (2020-2024), Dutch Research Council Open Competition XS Grant (2024), Dutch Research Council/NRO Comenius Fellowship (2019-2021), Europeana Research Grant  (2018), and multiple graduate scholarships and grants that she received while earning her doctorate at the University of Ottawa (Canada). She has also been co-investigator on multiple grant-funded collaborative projects.

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