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Mary Teresa Josephine Webber, FSA , FRHistS , FBA is a British palaeographer, medievalist, and academic. She has been a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge since 1997 and Professor of Palaeography at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge since 2018. [1] [2] [3] [4] Webber studied Modern History as an undergraduate at Somerville College, Oxford.

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Honours

In 2001, Webber was elected a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS). [1] [5] On 5 June 2003, she was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London (FSA). [6] In July 2017, she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and social sciences. [7]

From 2015 to 2016, Webber held the J. P. R. Lyell Reader in Bibliography at the University of Oxford. She therefore delivered the Lyell Lectures for that academic year: her lecture series was titled "Public Reading and its Books: Monastic Ideals and Practice in England c. 1000-c. 1300". [8]

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References

  1. 1 2 "Teresa Webber - Curriculum Vitae". Academia.edu. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  2. ↑ "Dr Teresa Webber". Faculty of History. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  3. ↑ "Dr Teresa Webber". British Academy. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  4. ↑ "Master & Fellows". Trinity College. University of Cambridge. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  5. ↑ "Fellows - W" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. December 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  6. ↑ "Fellows Directory - Webber". Society of Antiquaries of London. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  7. ↑ "Elections to the British Academy celebrate the diversity of UK research". British Academy. 2 July 2017. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
  8. ↑ "The Lyell & McKenzie Lectures". Centre for the Study of the Book. Bodleian Libraries. Retrieved 23 January 2018.
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