Indexing

Francis Young is an experienced professional indexer who specialises in indexing academic books across the Humanities, in fields that include History, Theology, Classics, Folklore Studies, Philosophy, Biblical Studies and Archaeology. He is a member of the Society of Indexers.

Some books recently indexed by Francis Young

• Stefan Creuzberger, The German-Russian Century: History of a Tangled Relationship (Polity, 2026)
• Jonathan McGovern (ed.), The Early Parliaments of Henry VIII, 1510-1523 (Boydell Press, 2025)
• Arlene Holmes-Henderson and Edith Hall (eds), Classical Civilisation and Ancient History in British Secondary Education (Liverpool University Press, 2025)
• Anastasia Stylianou and Fergus Eskola-Oakes (eds), The Victoria County History of Herefordshire: Cradley (Victoria County History, 2025)
• Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook, Folklore: A Journey through the Past and Present (Manchester University Press, 2025)
• George Westhaver and Jonathan Price (eds), The Dove Descending: Knowing and Loving in Spirit and Truth (James Clarke and Co., 2025)
• Ludovic Slimak, The Last Neanderthal: Understanding how Humans Die (Polity, 2025)
• Philipp Felsch, The Philosopher: Habermas and Us (Polity, 2025)
• Hugo Méndez, The Gospel of John: A New History (Oxford University Press, 2025)
• Sarah Bowden, Writing Sin in the German Lands, 1050-1215: Confession, Penance, and Textuality (Oxford University Press, 2025)
• Alan Dershowitz, The Preventive State: The Challenge of Preventing Serious Harms while Preserving Essential Liberties (Encounter, 2025)
• Annemarie McLaren, Aboriginal-Colonial Exchanges in New South Wales, 1800-1835: When the Strangers Came to Stay (Oxford University Press, 2025)
• Maria Cannon and Laura Tisdall (eds), Adulthood in Britain and the United States from 1350 to Generation Z (University of London Press, 2024)
• Fionnuala Walsh, America in Ireland: Culture and Society, 1841-1925 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• Celia M. Campbell, Rival Praises: Ovid and the Metamorphosis of the Hymnic Tradition (University of Wisconsin Press, 2024)
• Crystal Ennis, Millennial Dreams in Oil Economies: Job Seeking and Global Political Economy of Labour in Oman (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• Omar Áli-de-Unzaga (ed.), Epistles of the Brethren of Purity: On Ethics and Character Traits (Oxford University Press, 2024)
• Robert Roreitner, Aristotle on the Nature and Causes of Perception (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• Chiara Franceschini and Cloe Cavero de Carondelet (eds), Holy Children and Liminality in Early Modern Art (Brepols, 2024)
• Elena Cagnoli Fiecconi, Ethics for Rational Animals: The Moral Psychology at the Basis of Aristotle’s Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2024)
• Judith Vitale, The Historical Writing of the Mongol Invasions of Japan (Harvard University Press, 2024)
• Matthew Gabriele, Between Prophecy and Apocalypse (Oxford University Press, 2024)
• Jonathan McGovern, The Little History of England (The History Press, 2024)
• Edward Burke, Ulster’s Lost Counties: Loyalism and Paramilitarism since 1920 (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• Rebecca Boyd, Exploring Ireland’s Viking-Age Towns: Houses and Homes (Routledge, 2024)
• Erica Angliker and Ilaria Bultrighini (eds), New Approaches to the Materiality of Text in the Ancient Mediterranean (Brepols, 2023)
• Simon P. Johnson, The English College at Lisbon 1622-1972 (Gracewing, 2023)
• Elizabeth Eva Leach, Medieval Sex Lives: The Sounds of Courtly Intimacy on the Francophone Borders (Cornell University Press, 2023)
• Paul-François Tremlett, Religion and Marxism: An Introduction (Equinox, 2023)
• Owen Davies, Troubled by Faith: Insanity and the Supernatural in the Age of the Asylum (Oxford University Press, 2023)
• Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, Danielle Clarke and Sarah C. E. Ross (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in English, 1540-1700 (Oxford University Press, 2023)
• Robin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson and Renée R. Trilling (eds), Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)
• Mark Norman, The Folklore of Devon (University of Exeter Press, 2023)
• James Hannam, The Globe: How The Earth Became Round (University of Chicago Press, 2023)
• Arlene Holmes-Henderson (ed.), Expanding Classics: Practitioner Perspectives from Museums and Schools (Routledge, 2023)
• Shaun Blanchard and Stephen Bullivant (eds), Vatican II: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press, 2023)
• Charlotte Gauthier (ed.), 900 Years of St Bartholomew the Great (Ad Illisum, 2022)
• Robin Norris, Rebecca Stephenson and Renée Trilling (eds), Feminist Approaches to Early Medieval English Studies (Amsterdam University Press, 2023)
• Anne L. Murphy, Virtuous Bankers: A Day in the Life of the Eighteenth-Century Bank of England (Princeton University Press, 2022)
• Anne O. Albert, Jewish Politics in Spinoza’s Amsterdam (Liverpool University Press, 2022)
• The Principles of Canon Law Common to the Churches of the Anglican Communion (The Anglican Consultative Council, 2022)
• Danielle Clarke, Sarah C. E. Ross and Elizabeth Scott-Baumann (eds), The Oxford Handbook of Early Modern Women’s Writing in England, 1540-1700 (Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Ben Clements and Stephen Bullivant, Catholics in Contemporary Britain: Faith, Society, Politics (Oxford University Press, 2022)
• Dimitri Gutas (ed.), Why Translate Science? Documents from Antiquity to the 16th Century in the Historical West (Bactria to the Atlantic) (Brill, 2022) in collaboration with Exter Indexing
• Rebecca S. Watson and Adrian W. Curtis (eds), Conversations on Canaanite and Biblical Themes (De Gruyter, 2022)
• Simon Young, The Boggart: Folklore, History, Placenames and Dialect (University of Exeter Press, 2021)
• Owen Davies and Ceri Houlbrook, Building Magic: Ritual and Re-enchantment in Post-Medieval Structures (Palgrave MacMillan, 2021)
• Hilary Marlow, Karla Pollmann and Ailsa Hunt (eds), Eschatology in Antiquity: Forms and Functions (Routledge, 2021)
• Louise Nugent, Journeys of Faith: Stories of Pilgrimage from Medieval Ireland (Columba Books, 2021)
• Kriston Rennie, The Destruction and Recovery of Monte Cassino, 529-1964 (Amsterdam University Press, 2021)
• Sahle, Esther, Quakers in the British Atlantic World, c. 1660-1800 (Boydell Press, 2021)
• W. François, V. Soen, A. Dupont, A. A. Robiglio (eds.), Authority Revisited: Towards Thomas More and Erasmus in 1516 (Brepols, 2020)
• Kathleen B. Neal, The Letters of Edward I: Political Communication in the Thirteenth Century (Boydell & Brewer, 2020)
• Rory MacLellan, Donations to the Knights Hospitaller in Britain and Ireland, 1291-1400 (Routledge, 2020)
• Seb Falk, The Light Ages: A Medieval Journey of Discovery (Penguin, 2020)
• A. Walsham, B. Wallace, C. Law and B. Cummings (eds), Memory and the English Reformation (Cambridge University Press, 2020)

Francis is also able to supply specialist indexes such as a Biblical reference index and an index locorum of Classical texts should a book require this. Francis’s indexing fees generally follow the recommendations of the Society of Indexers. Please contact Francis for more details.

Translation

Francis Young is a specialist translator of medieval and early modern Latin texts, and is available to translate both snippets of prose and poetry or longer texts such as legal documents and accounts. His translation commissions have included a verse translation of a medieval Latin poem for Salisbury Cathedral’s 800th anniversary in 2020 that was set to music as The Salisbury Anthem; translations of Latin graffiti found in East Anglian churches; and a translation of a medieval life of St Knut the Holy of Denmark for Odense Museum. He has produced several book-length translations of both prose and poetry which can be found among his published works. Francis is also an experienced reader of medieval Latin manuscripts and may be able to assist with palaeographical queries.

Please contact Francis for more information about his translation work.