Anthony Bale
Anthony Bale | |
|---|---|
| Born | United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Awards | Huntington Library Fellowships, 2003 and 2018. Koret Jewish Studies Publications Prize 2005. Ronald Tress Prize 2007. Frankel Fellowship University 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. |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Oxford University; University of York; Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| Academic advisors | Paul Strohm |
| Academic work | |
| 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]
Biography
He is the eighth Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English (Cambridge) at the University of Cambridge. He is a Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge. He was previously Professor of Medieval Studies and Dean of Arts at Birkbeck, 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] His father's family were Shetlandic lighthouse-keepers.[4] He was awarded a Philip 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 published Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages,[5] which was awarded the Beatrice White Prize of the English Association. He has published new editions of The Book of Marvels and Travels by Sir John Mandeville and The Book of Margery Kempe.[6] He co-edited (with Sebastian Sobecki) Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology, and was Morton W. Bloomfield Fellow at Harvard University. His biography of Margery Kempe, entitled Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life, appeared in 2021.
Anthony Bale was President of the New Chaucer Society from 2020 to 2022.
In 2023 Viking Penguin published his Travel Guide to the Middle Ages: the World through Medieval Eyes.[7] The Times (UK) praised its 'perfect prose'[8] andThe New Yorker called it 'an immensely-entertaining history'.[9] A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages has since been published in Bulgarian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian and Russian translations. Die Presse (Austria) called it 'a wonderful book';[10] Blick (Switzerland) called it 'fascinating and outstanding',[11] whilst De Standaard (Belgium) wrote that 'there is no better tour guide than Anthony Bale.'[12]
In April 2024 the University of Cambridge announced that Bale had been elected Professor of Medieval & Renaissance Literature (1954) from October 2024.[13]
References
- ^ "Anthony Bale — Faculty of English, University of Cambridge". cam.ac.uk. 9 November 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ "Anthony Bale — Birkbeck, University of London".
- ^ Exeter College (12 September 2023). "Anthony Bale (1994, English)". Exeter College, Oxford. exeter.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 12 September 2023.
- ^ "Anthony Bale, tweet, Nov. 21 2020".
- ^ "Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence in the Middle Ages | Reviews in History". History.ac.uk. 20 December 2011. Retrieved 29 January 2012.
- ^ "In Our Time: Margery Kempe and English Mysticism". BBC Radio. 2 June 2016. Retrieved 1 August 2016.
- ^ "Viking lands Bale's Middle Ages travel guide". bookseller.co.uk. 31 March 2021. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
- ^ DeGroot, Gerard (27 October 2023). "A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages by Anthony Bale review — piety, sex and strange monsters". www.thetimes.com. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ The New Yorker (29 April 2024). "Briefly Noted Book Reviews". The New Yorker. ISSN 0028-792X. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ Gaulhofer, 29 03 2024 um 08:37 von Karl (29 March 2024). "Reisen im Mittelalter: Wo es Pilger in irdische Paradiese verschlug". Die Presse (in German). Retrieved 7 July 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Arnet, Daniel (2 April 2024). "Wer um 1500 reiste, brauchte für 100 Kilometer 30 Stunden". Blick (in Swiss High German). Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ "De 'middeleeuwse Lonely Planet' was een bestseller, schrijft Anthony Bale bevlogen". De Standaard (in Flemish). 30 March 2024. Retrieved 7 July 2025.
- ^ "Vacancies, appointments, etc. - Cambridge University Reporter 6736". www.admin.cam.ac.uk. Retrieved 27 April 2024.