Professor Dr Petra Sijpesteijn FBA
Social and cultural history of the medieval Near East; literacy and documentary cultures; transition from Late Antiquity to early Islam in the Eastern Mediterranean
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2024
- Honours
- FBA
- Sections
- Medieval Studies
Current post
Leiden University Professor of Arabic
Other Fellows of the British Academy
Professor Julia Barrow FBA
Medieval ecclesiastical history of western Europe, 800-1250; clergy, bishops, charters and administration
Professor Elizabeth Eva Leach FBA
History, theory, and analysis of 13th- and 14th-century music; music and French poetry in the same period; themes of love, violence, gender, and sexuality
Professor John Hudson FBA
Medieval legal history; medieval historical writing; nineteenth-century scholarship on legal history, especially the work of F W Maitland
