Professor Richard Sharpe FBA

Palaeography; Manuscript Studies; Diplomatic History of Britain and Ireland; Medieval History
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2003
Year of birth
1954
Year of death
2020
Subjects
Medieval studies

Summary

Richard Sharpe was Professor of Diplomatic at Wadham College, University of Oxford. In 2018 he was elected an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy.

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Interactions between Christians and Jews in the Middle Ages within the broad context of 12th and 13th-century theological and ecclesiastical developments; the place of Jews and Muslims in canon law

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Professor Anthony Paul Bale FBA

Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval & Renaissance English (1954) at the University of Cambridge and a Professorial Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. His research explores later medieval English literature and culture, with particular interests in Christian-Jewish relations, popular religion, pilgrimage and travel, the history of emotions, and codicology.

Portrait picture of Professor Anthony Paul Bale FBA, image credit: Tamsin Cox

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