Professor Helen Cooper FBA

Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2006
Subjects
Literature, Medieval studies

Summary

Helen Cooper is Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English at Magdalene College, University of Cambridge.

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge; Honorary Fellow, University College, Oxford

Past appointments

Magdalene College, University of Cambridge Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English

2004 - 2014

University College, University of Oxford Tutorial Fellow in English

1978 - 2004

Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge Junior Research Fellowship

1971 - 1974

Publications

Shakespeare and the Medieval World

Helen Cooper - Published in 2010 by The Arden Shakespeare

Paperback edition 2012

Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales

Helen Cooper - Published in 1989 by Oxford University Press

Pastoral: Medieval into Renaissance

Helen Cooper - Published in 1978 by Boydell & Brewer

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Dafydd Johnston FBA

Welsh literature, medieval Welsh poetry, Dafydd ap Gwilym, textual transmission, lexicon, translation

Dafydd Johnston FBA

Professor John Gillingham FBA

Medieval history: narrative sources, primarily in north-western Europe in the 11th to 13th centuries, as evidence for the perceptions and values that shaped war and politics.

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Professor Rosalind Love FBA

Medieval Latin language and literature; hagiography and biblical exegesis in Anglo-Saxon England; glossed manuscripts.

Rosalind Love FBA

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