Professor Brian Cummings FBA

Renaissance humanism and European literature 1450-1700; the history of religion in relation to the history of the book; literary theory and the history of philosophy
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2016
Subjects
Literature

Current post

Anniversary Professor, Department of English and Related Literature, University of York

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Colin Jones FBA

History of France, especially 17th to 19th centuries; French Revolution; history of medicine; cultural history

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Professor Sir Christopher Clark FBA

The history of 18th-, 19th- and 20th-century Prussia, Germany and Europe, especially the history of religion and religious conflict, the impact of the revolutions of 1848, the outbreak of the First World War and variations in the historical experience of

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Professor Deborah Howard FBA

The art and architecture of Venice and the Veneto; Renaissance architectural history and theory; the relationship between Italy and the Eastern Mediterranean; and music and architecture in the Renaissance

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