Professor Teresa Webber FBA

The palaeography of western medieval manuscripts and documents; the history of medieval books, book-collections and libraries
Fellow type
UK Fellow
Year elected
2017

Current post

Professor of Palaeography, Trinity College, University of Cambridge; Fellow, Trinity College, University of Cambridge

Past appointments

University of Cambridge University Reader in Palaeography

2015 - 2019

University of Cambridge University Senior Lecturer in Palaeography and Codicology

2006 - 2015

University of Cambridge University Lecturer in Palaeography and Codicology

2002 - 2006

University of Cambridge Temporary Lecturer in Palaeography and Diplomatic

1997 - 2002

University of Southampton Lecturer in Medieval History

1988 - 1997

Magdalen College, Oxford Fellow by Examination

1986 - 1988

What is palaeography?

16 Jul 2020 Professor Teresa Webber FBA

Professor Teresa Webber FBA explains how the study of pre-modern manuscripts combines knowledge of the ancient world with the use of new technologies.

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Professor Simon Gilson FBA

Dante; Renaissance Italian literary, intellectual and cultural history; reception of vernacular authors (Dante, Petrarch and Boccaccio) in Renaissance Italy; history of criticism; reception of ancient philosophy (especially Aristotle) in Renaissance Italy

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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

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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

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