Anthony Bale | |
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Born | United Kingdom |
Nationality | British |
Awards | Huntington Library Fellowships, 2003 and 2018. Koret Jewish Studies Publications Prize 2005. Ronald Tress Prize 2007. Frankel Fellowship University of Michigan 2008. Philip Leverhulme Prize 2011. Walter Hines Page Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation, National Humanities Center 2012. Beatrice White Prize, English Association 2014. Distinguished International Fellowship, University of Melbourne 2015. Brittingham Fellowship, University of Wisconsin Madison 2015. Morton Bloomfield Fellowship, Harvard University 2019. Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2023-26. |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Oxford University; University of York; Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Academic advisors | Paul Strohm |
Academic work | |
Institutions | University of Cambridge |
Main interests | Medieval Studies;English Language &Literature |
Website | https://www.bbk.ac.uk/our-staff/profile/8003721/anthony-bale |
Anthony Bale is an English medievalist. [1]
He is the eighth Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English (Cambridge) at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Girton College,Cambridge. He was previously Professor of Medieval Studies and Dean of Arts at Birkbeck,University of London. [2] He has written widely on medieval Christian-Jewish relations and on medieval culture and literature. He was state educated at a comprehensive school and sixth-form college in north Staffordshire. [3] He was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize 2011,a prize "awarded to outstanding scholars under the age of 36 who have made a substantial contribution to their field of study,are recognised at an international level,and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise." He has published Feeling Persecuted:Christians,Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages, [4] which was awarded the Beatrice White Prize of the English Association. He has published new editions of The Book of Marvels and Travels by Sir John Mandeville and The Book of Margery Kempe . [5] He co-edited (with Sebastian Sobecki) Medieval English Travel:A Critical Anthology,and was Morton W. Bloomfield Fellow at Harvard University. His biography of Margery Kempe,entitled Margery Kempe:A Mixed Life,appeared in 2021.
Anthony Bale was President of the New Chaucer Society from 2020 to 2022.
In 2023 Viking Penguin published his Travel Guide to the Middle Ages. [6]
In April 2024 the University of Cambridge announced that he had been elected Professor of Medieval &Renaissance Literature (1954) from October 2024. [7]
Margery Kempe was an English Catholic mystic,known for writing through dictation The Book of Margery Kempe,a work considered by some to be the first autobiography in the English language. Her book chronicles her domestic tribulations,her extensive pilgrimages to holy sites in Europe and the Holy Land,as well as her mystical conversations with God. She is honoured in the Anglican Communion,but has not been canonised as a Catholic saint.
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Christopher Howard Page is an English expert on medieval music,instruments and performance practice,together with the social and musical history of the guitar in England from the sixteenth century to the nineteenth. He has written numerous books regarding medieval music. He is currently a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College,Cambridge and Emeritus Professor of Medieval Music and Literature in the Faculty of English,University of Cambridge.
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Carolyn Dinshaw is an American academic and author,who has specialised in issues of gender and sexuality in the medieval context.
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