Background
Margaret Tidemann was born in Adelaide, the eldest child of Ernest Phillips Tidemann, a dentist, and his wife Beryl Chudleigh Tidemann, a kindergarten teacher.
Margaret Tidemann was born in Adelaide, the eldest child of Ernest Phillips Tidemann, a dentist, and his wife Beryl Chudleigh Tidemann, a kindergarten teacher.
She then completed a Bachelor of Letters
Her main research areas are Old Norse-Icelandic Studies and the history of their study. Since 1997 she has led the project of editing a new edition of the corpus of skaldic poetry. She has also written articles on Australian Aboriginal rituals and contributed to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
She was influenced to study Old and Middle English and Old Norse by Ralph Elliott, whom the university appointed as she was starting the course. at Oxford University on an overseas scholarship from the University of Adelaide and a scholarship from Somerville College.
She then worked as a lecturer at Saint Hilda"s College and Lady Margaret Hall, and in 1968-1969 visited the Arnamagnæan Institute in Copenhagen on a travelling fellowship. She became a lecturer at the University of Sydney in 1969, was appointed McCaughey Professor of English Language and Early English Literature in 1990 and in 1997 became Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies.
She retired in 2009 and since then has been Honorary Professor in the Medieval and Early Modern Centre and Emeritus Professor of English. Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World: Essays in Honour of Margaret Clunies Ross.
Education Judy Quinn, Kate Heslop, and Tarrin Wills.
Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 18. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007.