Anthony Bale | |
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| Born | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Awards | Huntington Library Fellowships, 2003 and 2018. Koret Jewish Studies Publications Prize 2005. Ronald Tress Prize 2007. Frankel FellowshipUniversity of Michigan 2008.Philip Leverhulme Prize 2011. Walter Hines Page Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation,National Humanities Center 2012. Beatrice White Prize, English Association 2014. Distinguished International Fellowship,University of Melbourne 2015. Brittingham Fellowship,University of Wisconsin Madison 2015. Morton Bloomfield Fellowship,Harvard University 2019. Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship, 2023-26. |
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| Alma mater | Oxford University;University of York;Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Academic advisors | Paul Strohm |
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| Institutions | University of Cambridge |
| Main interests | Medieval Studies; English Language & Literature |
| Website | https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/people/Anthony.Bale |
Anthony Bale is an English medievalist.[1]
He is the eighthProfessor of Medieval and Renaissance English (Cambridge) at theUniversity of Cambridge. He is a Fellow ofGirton College, Cambridge. He was previously Professor of Medieval Studies and Dean of Arts atBirkbeck, University of London.[2] He has written widely on medieval Christian-Jewish relations and on medieval culture and literature. He was state educated at a comprehensive school and sixth-form college in north Staffordshire.[3] He was awarded aPhilip Leverhulme Prize 2011, a prize "awarded to outstanding scholars under the age of 36 who have made a substantial contribution to their field of study, are recognised at an international level, and whose future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise." He has publishedFeeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages,[4] which was awarded the Beatrice White Prize of theEnglish Association. He has published new editions ofThe Book of Marvels and Travels by SirJohn Mandeville andThe Book ofMargery Kempe.[5] He co-edited (withSebastian Sobecki)Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology, and wasMorton W. Bloomfield Fellow atHarvard University. Hisbiography ofMargery Kempe, entitledMargery Kempe: A Mixed Life, appeared in 2021.
Anthony Bale was President of theNew Chaucer Society from 2020 to 2022.
In 2023Viking Penguin published hisTravel Guide to the Middle Ages.[6]
In April 2024the University of Cambridge announced that he had been electedProfessor of Medieval & Renaissance Literature (1954) from October 2024.[7]
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