Professor Anne Hudson FBA
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 1988
- Year of birth
- 1938
- Year of death
- 2021
- Subjects
- Medieval studies
- Sections
- Medieval Studies
Summary
Read English Language and Literature at St.Hugh's College Oxford 1957-60, specialising in the medieval period; gained a first. Graduate research for a thesis on the sources, structure and dialect of Robert of Gloucester's English chronicle; doctorate granted 1964. 1961 lecturership at Lady Margaret Hall Oxford; 1963 tutorial fellow and CUF lecturer; held a British Academy readership 1983-6; in 1985 University lecturer; 1989 a personal chair. FBA 1988. Retired 2003. Since late 1960s working on the life and writings of John Wyclif and his followers (usually known as Lollards) on the manuscripts of Latin and medieval English texts, edited several long works by Lollards as well as shorter texts and published discussions of their lives. British Academy Gollancz prize in 1985 and 1991. Over many years involved with Early English Text Society, finally as Director 2007-14. The Carolinum University in Prague awarded an honorary doctorate of history in 2010, and the Czech Academy awarded two medals. Over the past six years main research has been on copies of the Wycliffite Bible, the first complete translation into English of the Vulgate text; this project has been supported first by the Leverhulme foundation and now by the AHRC.
Current post
Emeritus Professor of Medieval English, University of Oxford
Past appointments
Lady Margaret Hall University of Oxford Honorary Fellow
2003 -
University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Medieval English
2003 -
Lady Margaret Hall University of Oxford Honorary Fellow
2003 -
University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Medieval English
2003 -
Corpus Christi College University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Medieval English, University of Oxford
1989 -
University of Oxford Professor of Medieval English
1989 - 2003
University of Oxford Professor of Medieval English
1989 - 2003
Corpus Christi College University of Oxford Emeritus Professor of Medieval English, University of Oxford
1989 -
Lady Margaret Hall University of Oxford Fellow
1963 - 2003
University of Oxford Lecturer
1963 - 1989
University of Oxford Lecturer
1963 - 1989
Lady Margaret Hall University of Oxford Fellow
1963 - 2003
Publications
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor John Marenbon FBA
The history of philosophy, especially c.500 – c.1700, with a focus on Boethius, Anselm and Abelard, but including philosophers up to Leibniz
Professor Kathryn M. Rudy FBA
Medieval manuscripts and their functions; technical approaches to the reception of manuscripts; creativity and inventiveness
Professor John Gillingham FBA
Medieval history: narrative sources, primarily in north-western Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries, as evidence for the perceptions and values that shaped war and politics.
