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

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