Timothy Glover published a journal article in Mediaeval Studies, demonstrating that a manuscript in Shrewsbury School contains the only surviving original version of Richard Rolle’s Emendatio vitae: i.e. the most popular work by the most disseminated late-medieval English writer. All other 120 surviving copies and all editions in print are now shown to be an abridgement made by somebody else. This discovery was featured in the Telegraph: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/12/20/medieval-manuscript-discovered-shropshire-school/. A write-up also appears on medievalists.net: https://www.medievalists.net/2025/12/medieval-discovery-richard-rolle/. The Cambridge Research Feature can be read at: https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/richard-rolle-hermit-bestseller.

Timothy Glover published his findings while working at Corpus Christi College at the University of Cambridge, following a Research Fellowship at Emmanuel College. He recently moved to the University of Bergen.