Professor E Peter Dronke FBA

Fellow type: UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected: 1984
Year of birth: 1934
Year of death: 2020
Subjects: Literature, Medieval studies
Sections: Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor

2001 -

University of Cambridge Professor of Medieval Latin Literature

1989 - 2001

Clare Hall, University of Cambridge Fellow

1964 - 2001

Publications

The Spell of Calcidus (2008)

Forms and Imaginings (2007)

Imagination in the late pagan and Early Christian world (2003)

Sources of Inspiration (1997)

Hildegard of Bingen, Liber divinorum operum (1996)

Nine Medieval Latin Plays (1994)

Verse with Prose: From Petronius to Dante (1994)

Intellectuals and Poets in medieval Europe (1992)

Latin and vernacular poets of the Middle Ages (1991)

Dante and medieval Latin traditions (1986)

The Medieval Poet and his World (1984)

Women Writers of the Middle Ages (1984)

Medieval Latin and the rise of European love-lyric (2 vols) (1965-6)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Colin Burrow FBA

Early Modern English Literature; relationships with classical literature, theory and practice of literary imitation, textual editing, literary history, Wyatt, Spenser, Shakespeare, Jonson and Milton.

Professor Melveena McKendrick FBA

Iberian and Latin American Languages and Literatures

Professor Robert Crawford FBA

Scottish literature: T S Eliot; modern & contemporary poetry; creative writing (particularly poetry)

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Professor E Peter Dronke FBA

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor

University of Cambridge Professor of Medieval Latin Literature

Clare Hall, University of Cambridge Fellow

Publications

The Spell of Calcidus (2008)

Forms and Imaginings (2007)

Imagination in the late pagan and Early Christian world (2003)

Sources of Inspiration (1997)

Hildegard of Bingen, Liber divinorum operum (1996)

Nine Medieval Latin Plays (1994)

Verse with Prose: From Petronius to Dante (1994)

Intellectuals and Poets in medieval Europe (1992)

Latin and vernacular poets of the Middle Ages (1991)

Dante and medieval Latin traditions (1986)

The Medieval Poet and his World (1984)

Women Writers of the Middle Ages (1984)

Medieval Latin and the rise of European love-lyric (2 vols) (1965-6)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Colin Burrow FBA

Professor Melveena McKendrick FBA

Professor Robert Crawford FBA

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Professor E Peter Dronke FBA

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Emeritus Professor

University of Cambridge Professor of Medieval Latin Literature

Clare Hall, University of Cambridge Fellow

Publications

The Spell of Calcidus (2008)

Forms and Imaginings (2007)

Imagination in the late pagan and Early Christian world (2003)

Sources of Inspiration (1997)

Hildegard of Bingen, Liber divinorum operum (1996)

Nine Medieval Latin Plays (1994)

Verse with Prose: From Petronius to Dante (1994)

Intellectuals and Poets in medieval Europe (1992)

Latin and vernacular poets of the Middle Ages (1991)

Dante and medieval Latin traditions (1986)

The Medieval Poet and his World (1984)

Women Writers of the Middle Ages (1984)

Medieval Latin and the rise of European love-lyric (2 vols) (1965-6)

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Colin Burrow FBA

Professor Melveena McKendrick FBA

Professor Robert Crawford FBA

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