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 David Crouch FBA

The social and political history of Britain and France 1000-1300; the comparative study of medieval aristocracies; medieval conduct

Professor Helena Francisca Hamerow FBA

The archaeology and rural economy of early medieval Europe, especially the North Sea zone

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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