Dr Anthony Hunt FBA

The use of French in medieval England; medieval medicine; and editing Old French texts

Fellow type: UK Fellow
Year elected: 1999
Year of birth: 1944
Year of death: 2025
Subjects: Medieval studies
Sections: Medieval Studies
Website: https://www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/people/anthony-hunt

Summary

Lecturer & Reader, Univ. St Andrews 1968-90; Lecturer in Medieval French Literature, Univ. of Oxford 1990-2009 Fellow of St Peter's College, Oxford 2011 (Emeritus 2011-). Hon Treasurer Anglo-Norman Text Society 1976-2011, Joint President 2011-. Research interests: Medieval Medicine, Anglo-Norman, Medieval French translations of Latin texts. Foreign Member, Norwegian Acad. of Science & Letters (1999); Officier dans l'Ordre des Palmes Academiques (2009)

Last post

Emeritus Fellow, St Peter's College, Oxford

Past appointments

St Peter's College University of Oxford Emeritus Fellow

2013 -

St Peter's College University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow in French

1990 -

University of Oxford Faculty Lecturer in Medieval French Literature

1990 -

University of St Andrews Reader in French

1979 - 1990

Publications

Writing the Future: Prognostic Texts of Medieval England

Ed. Tony Hunt - Published in 2013 by Classiques Garnier

Les Paroles Salomun

Ed. Tony Hunt - Published in 2012 by Anglo-Norman Text Society

Old French Medical Texts

Ed. Tony Hunt - Published in 2011 by Classiques Garnier

Anglo-Norman Medicine

Ed. Tony Hunt - Published in 1997 by D. S. Brewer

2 volumes

Teaching and learning Latin in 13th century England

Tony Hunt - Published in 1991 by D. S. Brewer

3 volumes

Popular medicine in 13th century England

Tony Hunt - Published in 1990 by D. S. Brewer

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Daniel Wakelin FBA

Medieval English literature and its circulation and reception in manuscripts and other material texts

Professor Susan Rankin FBA

Western medieval music and its transmission and notation from the origins to the 13th century and the development of the Latin liturgy, with an especial focus on ritual

Professor Andy Orchard FBA

The languages and literatures of Anglo-Saxon England; Medieval Latin; Old Norse-Icelandic; oral tradition

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