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Dr James Binns FBA

Medieval Latin
Photograph of Dr James Binns FBA
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2004
Subjects
Literature
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830

Current post

University of York Honorary Fellow

2002 -

Past appointments

University of York Reader in Latin Literature

1991 - 2002

University of York Lecturer in Latin Literature

1984 - 1991

University of Birmingham Lecturer, in Medieval and Renaissance Latin

1965 - 1984

Publications

Gervase of Tilbury: Otia imperialia: Recreation for an Emperor

James Binns and Shelagh Banks - Published in 2002 by Oxford University Press

Latin Treatises on Poetry from Renaissance England

Edited by James Binns, et al. - Published in 1999 by Summertown Texts

Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England: the Latin Writings of the Age

James Binns - Published in 1990 by Francis Cairns (Publications) Ltd

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Nicholas Roe FBA

All periods of English Literature, particularly Romantic literature and culture; William Wordsworth, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Leigh Hunt and John Keats; biography of the Romantics; literature and medicine

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Professor David Womersley FBA

English literature of the long eighteenth century, especially Gibbon, Swift, Burke and Johnson; sixteenth-century historiography and historical drama; the history of literary criticism; the theory and practice of textual editing

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Professor Nico Mann FBA

Petrarch, early Italian Renaissance and the classical tradition

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