Conor McCarthy

Conor McCarthy is the author of four books, most recently Outlaws and Spies, a study of the representation of outlaws and spies in law and literature, published by Edinburgh University Press. A paperback edition is forthcoming in 2022.

A new edition of Love, Sex and Marriage in the Middle Ages: A Sourcebook, first published in 2004, is forthcoming from Routledge in 2022. This new edition presents a much expanded range of sources for understanding love, sex, and marriage during the European Middle Ages.

His previous books were Seamus Heaney and Medieval Poetry, a discussion of the Nobel prizewinner's translations and adaptations from medieval literature, and a study of legal and literary representations of marriage in medieval England.

Born and raised in Ireland, he now lives in Australia, where he is Director of Philanthropy at the National Library of Australia. He holds a PhD from Trinity College, Dublin.