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 Javed Majeed FBA

Intellectual and literary history of colonial and postcolonial South Asia; colonialism, nationalism and literature; language politics and ideas of language in South Asia; Islam and colonialism; modern Urdu literature

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Professor Robert Frost FBA

The history of the Polish-Lithuanian union, 1386-1815, with subsidiary interests in the history of Scandinavia, in particular the history of Sweden; the Holy Roman Empire; the history of warfare

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Professor Eamon Duffy FBA

Medieval History - History

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