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Dr Peter Beal FBA

Palaeography English Language and Literature
Fellow type
UK Emeritus Fellow
Year elected
1993
Year of death
2024
Subjects
Literature
Sections
Early Modern Languages and Literatures to 1830

Last post

Institute of English Studies, University of London Senior Research Fellow

Publications

Index of English literary MSS 1450-1700 (4 vols) 1980-1993

In praise of scribes: MSS and their makers in 17th century England 1998

English MS studies 1100-1700 (series of vols) 1989 to date

Elizabeth I and the Culture of Writing 2007

A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 2008

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

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Professor Nigel Leask FBA

Literature & culture of the 'long Romantic period', with a focus on empire, nation & travel writing. My recent focus is Scottish literature & thought 1750-1850, with a special emphasis on Robert Burns & his poetic & intellectual circle.

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Professor John Kerrigan FBA

Shakespeare and drama; seventeenth-century Anglophone literature; British and Irish poetry since Yeats

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