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 Paul Binski FBA
Western European art and architecture 1100-1400; royal and ecclesiastical patronage; the art of liturgy and death; hagiography; wall, panel and manuscript painting; Cambridge illuminated manuscripts; international artistic relations.
Professor Jeremy Lawrance FBA
The medieval & Renaissance literature & history of Spain from 1200 to 1700, with special interests in literacy, libraries & the history of ideas; humanism; imperialism
Professor Christopher Woolgar FBA
The history of the everyday in the late medieval period, including material culture, food, sensory perception, great households; diplomatic, forms of documents and archival processes from the medieval period onwards
