Anthony Colin Spearing (born 31 January 1936)[1] is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia, specialising in medieval literature. He translated The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works for Penguin Classics.[2]
Education
editHe was a student at Jesus College, Cambridge, a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge[1] and received his M.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1960.[3] He has been a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge since 1960, and Life Fellow since 1987.[4] He has an honorary Ph.D. from Lund University, Sweden, and was awarded the degree of Doctor of Letters (Litt.D.) by the University of Cambridge on the 19th July 2014.[5]
Works
editSpearing has published numerous books and papers on topics of medieval English literature, including many works on Geoffrey Chaucer. Works by Spearing include:
- Criticism and Medieval Poetry (1964, 2 edn 1972; ISBN 0-06-496441-8)
- An Introduction to Chaucer (with Maurice Hussey and James Winny, 1965; ISBN 0-521-09286-8)
- The Medieval Poet as Voyeur (1993; ISBN 0-521-41094-0)
- Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Romances and Lyrics (2005; ISBN 0-19-818724-6).[1]
References
edit- ^ a b c Prof A C Spearing Archived August 30, 2012, at the Wayback Machine from Debrett's
- ^ "The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works by Anonymous". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved 30 January 2023.
- ^ A. C. Spearing (1987) from the University of Virginia
- ^ Fellows 1900–99, from Queens' College, Cambridge.
- ^ Professor A. C. Spearing awarded Doctor of Letters from Cambridge, from the Department of English of the University of Virginia.
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