Julia Boffey: “London Books in Manuscript and Print, c. 1500”

September 13, 2012

Thursday, September 13 at 5:45, LC 319. The Medieval Colloquium presents: Professor Julia Boffey, Professor of Medieval Studies at University of London. Professor Boffey’s research has involved varieties of verse and prose writing c.1350-1550, and is especially concerned with matters of transmission and reception. She has edited a collection of Fifteenth-Century English Dream Visions (Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2003), co-authored A New Index of Middle English Verse (British Library: London, 2005), and published articles on Middle English lyrics, on fourteenth- and fifteenth-century verse and verse translation, on women’s literacy and reading in the Middle Ages, and on early printing in England. Julia is co-organizer (with Miri Rubin) of a QM seminar series on ‘Medieval and Early Modern Texts and Contexts’, and is on the Council of the Early English Text Society. She is on the steering committee of the Harlaxton Symposium, and with Virginia Davis co-organized the 2005 symposium whose proceedings were published as Recording Medieval Lives (Shaun Tyas: Donington, 2009). During 2011 she held a British Academy/Leverhulme Trust Senior Research Fellowship to support the completion of a book about the relationships between manuscript and printed books in London c. 1475-1530.

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