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. |
Academic background | |
Alma mater | Oxford University; University of York; Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
Academic advisors | Paul Strohm |
Academic work | |
Institutions | Birkbeck,University of London |
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 Professor of Medieval Studies at Birkbeck,University of London and from 2017 to 2021 was Executive Dean of the School of Arts,and 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. [2] 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, [3] 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 . [4] Most recently,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”. [5]
In April 2024 the University of Cambridge announced that he had been elected Professor of Medieval &Renaissance Literature (1954) from October 2024. [6]
Julian of Norwich,also known as Juliana of Norwich,the Lady Julian,Dame Julian or Mother Julian,was an English anchoress of the Middle Ages. Her writings,now known as Revelations of Divine Love,are the earliest surviving English language works by a woman,although it is possible that some anonymous works may have had female authors. They are also the only surviving English language works by an anchoress.
Margery Kempe was an English Christian 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.
Birkbeck,University of London,is a research university located in the Bloomsbury neighborhood of London,England,and a member institution of the University of London. Established in 1823 as the London Mechanics' Institute by its founder Sir George Birkbeck and its supporters- Jeremy Bentham,J. C. Hobhouse and Henry Brougham- Birkbeck is one of the few universities to specialise in evening higher education in the United Kingdom.
Richard Rolle was an English hermit,mystic,and religious writer. He is also known as Richard Rolle of Hampole or de Hampole,since at the end of his life he lived near a Cistercian nunnery in Hampole,now in South Yorkshire. In the words of Nicholas Watson,scholarly research has shown that "[d]uring the fifteenth century he was one of the most widely read of English writers,whose works survive in nearly four hundred English ... and at least seventy Continental manuscripts,almost all written between 1390 and 1500." In many ways,he can be considered the first English author,insofar as his vernacular works were widely considered to have considerable religious authority and influence soon after his death,and for centuries afterwards.
The Rhineland massacres,also known as the German Crusade of 1096 or Gzerot Tatnó,were a series of mass murders of Jews perpetrated by mobs of French and German Christians of the People's Crusade in the year 1096,or 4856 according to the Hebrew calendar. These massacres are often seen as the first in a sequence of antisemitic events in Europe which culminated in the Holocaust.
The Book of Margery Kempe is a medieval text attributed to Margery Kempe,an English Christian mystic and pilgrim who lived at the turn of the fifteenth century. It details Kempe's life,her travels,her accounts of divine revelation including her visions of interacting with the Trinity,particularly Jesus,as well as other biblical figures. These interactions take place through a strong,mental connection forged between Kempe and said biblical figures. The book is also notable for her claiming to be present at key biblical events such as the Nativity,shown in chapter six of Book I,and the Crucifixion.
Robin James Lane Fox,is an English classicist,ancient historian,and gardening writer known for his works on Alexander the Great. Lane Fox is an Emeritus Fellow of New College,Oxford and Reader in Ancient History,University of Oxford. Fellow and Tutor in Ancient History at New College from 1977 to 2014,he serves as Garden Master and as Extraordinary Lecturer in Ancient History for both New College and Exeter College. He has also taught Greek and Latin literature and early Islamic history.
George Gordon Coulton was a British historian,known for numerous works on medieval history. He was known also as a keen controversialist.
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.
Nicholas Orme is a British historian specialising in the Middle Ages and Tudor period,focusing on the history of children,and ecclesiastical history,with a particular interest in South West England.
Joanna Bourke,is a British historian and academic. She is professor of history at Birkbeck,University of London.
Hope Emily Allen (1883–1960),was an American medievalist who is best known for her research on the 14th-century English mystic Richard Rolle and for her discovery of a manuscript of the Book of Margery Kempe.
Peter John Murray was a British art historian and the Professor of History of Art at Birkbeck College,London from 1967 to 1980. Together with his wife,Linda Murray,he wrote primers on Italian Renaissance art which have been used by generations of students. In 1959 they published the highly successful Penguin Dictionary of Art and Artists,which was frequently updated and reissued. In 1963,they published two substantial introductory texts The Art of the Renaissance, and a book that became a classic primer The Architecture of the Renaissance.
Affective piety is most commonly described as a style of highly emotional devotion to the humanity of Jesus,particularly in his infancy and his death,and to the joys and sorrows of the Virgin Mary. It was a major influence on many varieties of devotional literature in late-medieval Europe,both in Latin and in the vernaculars. This practice of prayer,reading,and meditation was often cultivated through visualization and concentration on vivid images of scenes from the Bible,Saints' Lives,Virgin Mary,Christ and religious symbols,feeling from the result. These images could be either conjured up in people's minds when they read or heard poetry and other pieces of religious literature,or they could gaze on manuscript illuminations and other pieces of art as they prayed and meditated on the scenes depicted. In either case,this style of affective meditation asked the "viewer" to engage with the scene as if she or he were physically present and to stir up feelings of love,fear,grief,and/or repentance for sin.
David Nirenberg is a medievalist and intellectual historian. He is the Director and Leon Levy Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton,NJ. He previously taught at the University of Chicago,where he was Dean of the Divinity School,and Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Distinguished Service Professor of Medieval History and the Committee on Social Thought,as well as the former Executive Vice Provost of the University,Dean of the Social Sciences Division,and the founding Roman Family Director of the Neubauer Family Collegium for Culture and Society. He is also appointed to the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures,the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies.
Carolyn Dinshaw is an American academic and author,who has specialised in issues of gender and sexuality in the medieval context.
John Hugh Arnold is a British historian. Since 2016,he has been the Professor of Medieval History at the University of Cambridge. He previously worked at Birkbeck College,University of London,where he specialised in the study of medieval religious culture. He has also written widely on historiography and why history matters.
The Medieval World Series is a history book series published first by Longman and later by Routledge. Works in the series are intended to be an introduction to the authors' specialist subjects and a summing up of the current scholarship and debates of the relevant subjects.
Sebastian Sobecki is a medievalist specialising in English literature,history,and manuscript studies.
Elizabeth Herbert McAvoy is a Welsh scholar of medieval literature who specialises in medieval women's literature,particularly anchorites. She is Professor Emerita of Medieval Studies at Swansea University.