Professor Annette Volfing FBA
Medieval German literature: mysticism; allegory; learned discourse (vernacular reception of the artes); didacticism; courtly romance; orientalism; discourses of gender and violence
- Fellow type
- UK Fellow
- Year elected
- 2015
- Subjects
- Medieval studies
- Sections
- Medieval Studies
Current post
Professor of Medieval German Literature, University of Oxford; Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Simon Gilson FBA
Dante; Renaissance Italian literary, intellectual and cultural history; reception of vernacular authors (Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio) in Renaissance Italy; history of criticism; reception of ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle) in Renaissance Italy
Professor Dafydd Johnston FBA
Welsh literature, medieval Welsh poetry, Dafydd ap Gwilym, textual transmission, lexicon, translation
Professor André Vauchez FBA
Western Medieval History; History of Christianity; Researches on the medieval conception of holiness and on the sacralization of space and time ; Francis of Assisi and the Franciscan history. Dissent and Orthodoxy in the West (X-XV centuries)
