Simon Forde (medievalist)

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Simon Forde is a publisher and medievalist, noted as the former editor of the International Medieval Bibliography and founder of the International Medieval Congress.

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Education

Forde completed a BA at the University of Birmingham in 1980, [1] an MA in 1982, [2] and a PhD in 1985, [3] all with dissertations on late medieval English sermons.

Career

Following postdoctoral research positions at the Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto and Lady Margaret Hall at the University of Oxford, [4] Forde succeeded Catherine R. E. Coutts as the editor of the International Medieval Bibliography at the University of Leeds in 1988, becoming deputy director of the Leeds Centre for Medieval Studies the next year. [5] In 1994 he founded the International Medieval Congress [6] and Leeds's International Medieval Institute (which in 2003 became the Leeds Institute for Medieval Studies). [7] He oversaw much of the digitisation of the formerly print-only Bibliography. [7] In 1996 he left Leeds to work in publishing at Brepols, the publisher of the Bibliography, [7] and in 2006 was a founder of the Co-operative for the Advancement of Research through a Medieval European Network (CARMEN). [8] In 2013 he moved to Amsterdam University Press, becoming head of acquisitions, and in 2014 established Arc-Humanities Press as a publishing arm for CARMEN, [4] an organisation for which, as of 2021, he remained director and editor-in-chief. [9] In 2015–17, he worked at Medieval Institute Publications at the Institute for Medieval Studies at Western Michigan University, succeeding Patricia Hollahan, as managing editor and then director and editor-in-chief. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ Simon Forde, 'Mirk's "Festial" within the liturgy' (unpublished BA thesis, University of Birmingham, Schools of Medieval English and History, 1980).
  2. ↑ Simon Forde, 'A preliminary study of the sermons of Philip Repingdon (d. 1424): six Lenten sermons in Worcester Cathedral MS F121' (unpublished MA thesis, University of Birmingham, Dept of English, 1982).
  3. ↑ Simon Forde, 'Writings of a reformer: a look at sermon studies and Bible studies through Repyngdon's "Sermones super Evangelia Dominicalia"', 2 vols (unpublished PhD thesis, University of Birmingham, 1985).
  4. 1 2 Mark Schwerin, 'WMU Medieval Institute names new publications director', WMU News (26 March 2016).
  5. ↑ University of Leeds Calendar .
  6. ↑ 'IMC Memories: Simon Forde', 50 Years of Medieval Studies at Leeds (14 June 2018).
  7. 1 2 3 Robert Hall and Ian N. Wood, ‘International Medieval Institute Newsletter’, Bulletin of International Medieval Research, 2–3 (1996–97), 50–51.
  8. ↑ Simon Forde, 'Carmen: Collaboration in the Face of Contemporary Challenges', Imago TemporIs: MedIum aevum, 9 (2015): 329--40 doi : 10.21001/itma.2015.9.15.
  9. ↑ "Team".
  10. ↑ 'History' (Medieval Institute).
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