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 Robert J. Mayhew FBA
The interface of historical geography and intellectual history, in particular the intellectual history of British geography books, demography and migration, c 1660-1900
Professor Amanda Vickery FBA
The history of women and gender, love and power, house and home in Britain c 1660-1837; the spatial history of London c 1688-1832; women, beauty and the economy of appearances, 1945-1975; the categories and chronology of women's history
Professor Michael Hunter FBA
Intellectual history of late 17th century Britain, especially the early Royal Society and the 'decline of magic'; editions of Robert Boyle and others; visual culture.
