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 Gordon Campbell FBA

Renaissance & seventeenth century English literature, especially John Milton; ancient & modern European literatures; cultural history, especially art, architecture, garden history, legal history & Biblical studies; the contemporary Islamic world

Professor Jeremy Lawrance FBA

The medieval & Renaissance literature & history of Spain from 1200 to 1700, with special interests in literacy, libraries & the history of ideas; humanism; imperialism

Professor Matthew Bell FBA

Matthew Bell's research interests are European literature and thought of the 18th and 19th centuries, especially German; the history of the human sciences up to 1900; and Goethe.

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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 Gordon Campbell FBA

Professor Jeremy Lawrance FBA

Professor Matthew Bell 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 Gordon Campbell FBA

Professor Jeremy Lawrance FBA

Professor Matthew Bell FBA

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