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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 Marie-Luce Demonet FBA

Renaissance French literature; Early modern linguistic theory, semiotics; Early modern fictionality, Arts of discourse, Mind theory (possible worlds, counterfactuals); Rhetoric of orality, writing and printing; Digital scholarly editions

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Professor Catriona Seth FBA

French literature (especially novels and poetry) - The long 18th century in France - Cultural history of Enlightenment Europe - Memoirs and autobiography

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Professor Robert Crawford FBA

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

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