Department of English at the University of Virginia

The Killing Trade: Violence, Exchange and Discourse in Beowulf (provisional title). In progress.
Introduction to Old English (Oxford: Blackwell, 2003). Also The Electronic Introduction to Old English
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle: A Collaborative Edition, vol. 8: MS. F (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2000).
Byrhtferth's Enchiridion, ed. Peter S. Baker and Michael Lapidge, Early English Text Society, Supplementary Series, 15 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
The General Correspondence of James Boswell, 1766-1769, ed. Richard C. Cole, with Peter S. Baker and Rachel McClellan. 2 vols. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, Research Edition, Correspondence, vol. 5 (Edinburgh: Edinburgh UP, 1993-1997).
The Correspondence of James Boswell with David Garrick, Edmund Burke, and Edmond Malone, ed. Peter S. Baker, Thomas W. Copeland, George M. Kahrl, Rachel McClellan, and James M. Osborn. The Yale Editions of the Private Papers of James Boswell, Research Edition, Correspondence, vol. 4 (London: Heinemann, 1987 for 1986).

Beowulf: Basic Readings, Basic Readings in Anglo-Saxon England 1 (New York: Garland, 1995). Reissued as The Beowulf Readers, 2000.
Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson, ed. P.S. Baker and Nicholas Howe (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1998).

“Typing in Old English Since 1967: A Brief History,” Old English Newsletter. 40.1 (2007). Online at http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/essays.php?file=essays/baker40_1.txt.
“The Old English Language,” in Beowulf and Other Stories, ed. Richard North and Joe Allard (Harlow and London: Pearson, 2007), pp. 272–300.
“More Diagrams by Byrhtferth of Ramsey,” in Latin Learning and English Lord: Studies in Anglo-Saxon Literature for Michael Lapidge, ed. Katherine O’Brien O’Keeffe and Andy Orchard (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 2005), ii. 53–73.
"Toller at School: Joseph Bosworth, T. Northcote Toller, and the Progress of Old English Lexicography in the Nineteenth Century," in Textual and Material Culture in Anglo-Saxon England: Thomas Northcote Toller and the Toller Memorial Lectures, ed. Donald G. Scragg (Cambridge, 2003)pp. 283-300.
"How to Cheat at Editing: The Domitian Bilingual Chronicle, Anno 679," ANQ 15 (2002), 8-13.
"The Inflection of Latin Nouns in Old English Texts," Words and Works: Studies in Medieval English Language and Literature in Honour of Fred C. Robinson, ed. P.S. Baker and N. Howe (Toronto: U of Toronto P, 1998), pp. 187-206.
"More Acrostic Verse by Abbo of Fleury," with Michael Lapidge, Journal of Medieval Latin, 7 (1997), 1-27.
"Textual Boundaries in Anglo-Saxon Works on Time (and in some Old English poems)," Studies in English Language and Literature. 'Doubt Wisely': Papers in Honour of E.G. Stanley (London: Routledge, 1996), pp. 445-56.

“Old English Aerobics,” an on-line environment for students learning Old English. http://faculty.virginia.edu/OldEnglish/OEA/index.html. [obsolete but still available.]
Font software: Junius (a revival of a seventeenth-century “Saxon” typeface, together with general-purpose typefaces for Anglo-Saxonists); Beowulf-1 (an adaptation of the first hand of the Beowulf manuscript); Anglo-Saxon Caps (an adaptation of a selection of capitals from and Anglo-Saxon gospel manuscript); Junicode, a Unicode/OpenType font for medievalists. Current version: 0.6.15 (July 2007). Freeware (GPL): http://junicode.sourceforge.net/. Also included in various Linux distributions.
Xgridfit, an XML-based hinting language for TrueType fonts. Current version: 1.6 (April 2008. Freeware (GPL): http://xgridfit.sourceforge.net/. Also included in various Linux distributions.

Peter Baker