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Professor Patrick Boyde FBA

Italian Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
1987
Subjects
Medieval studies
Sections
Medieval Studies
Website
https://www.mmll.cam.ac.uk/pb127

Current post

Emeritus Professor of Italian, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge Serena Professor of Italian

1982 - 2002

Publications

Dante's lyric poetry (2 vols), 1967

Dante philomythes and philosopher: man in the cosmos 1981

Perception and passion in Dante's 'Comedy' 1993

Human vices and human worth in Dante's Comedy 2000

Other Fellows of the British Academy

Professor Malcolm Godden FBA

Anglo-Saxon literature, especially Ælfric and the Alfredian writings; early medieval commentary on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy

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Professor Annette Volfing FBA

Medieval German literature: mysticism; allegory; learned discourse (vernacular reception of the artes); didacticism; courtly romance; orientalism; discourses of gender and violence

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Professor David Crouch FBA

The social and political history of Britain and France 1000-1300; the comparative study of medieval aristocracies; medieval conduct

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