Professor Patrick Boyde FBA

Italian Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1987
Subjects
Medieval studies

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Serena Professor of Italian

1982 - 2002

Publications

Dante's lyric poetry (2 vols), 1967

Dante philomythes and philosopher: man in the cosmos 1981

Perception and passion in Dante's 'Comedy' 1993

Human vices and human worth in Dante's Comedy 2000

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor John Blair FBA

The society, culture and landscape of early medieval England, especially the Church and parochial organisation; historical and archaeological sources and approaches

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Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA

History, theory, and analysis of 13th- and 14th-century music; music and French poetry in the same period; themes of love, violence, gender, and sexuality

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Professor Malcolm Godden FBA

Anglo-Saxon literature, especially Ælfric and the Alfredian writings; early medieval commentary on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy

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