Nigel Fenton Palmer FBA was a British Germanist and Professor Emeritus at the University of Oxford.
Nigel F. Palmer in front of the Ashmolean Museum (2001)
Nigel F. Palmer during an excursion with a group of Tübingen German medievalists to explore the wall paintings in the Gamburg
Prof. Nigel F. Palmer, Emeritus Professor of German Medieval and Linguistic Studies, preparing for a lecture series on Easter Plays in Azerbaijan 2015 by examining the facsimile scroll of the Osterspiel von Muri in the Taylor Institution Library, University of Oxford
Prof. Nigel F. Palmer, thanking colleagues and friends for fundraising to buy a manuscript in honour of his 70th birthday, Taylor Institution Library, Oxford
The Visio Tnugdali is a 12th-century religious text reporting the otherworldly vision of the Irish knight Tnugdalus. It was "one of the most popular and elaborate texts in the medieval genre of visionary infernal literature" and had been translated from the original Latin forty-three times into fifteen languages by the 15th century, including Icelandic and Belarusian. The work remained most popular in Germany, with ten different translations into German, and four into Dutch. With a recent resurgence of scholarly interest in Purgatory following works by Jacques Le Goff, Stephen Greenblatt and others, the vision has attracted increased academic attention.
The Mouth of Hell, by Simon Marmion, from the Getty Tondal, detail
Tundale suffers a seizure at dinner, Getty Tondal
Tundale looks over the wall of Heaven, woodcut illustration from an edition in German printed by Matthias Hupfuff in Strasbourg, 1514
