Scholar
Michael Lapidge
,
FBA
(born 8 February 1942
[1]
) is a scholar in the field of
Medieval Latin
literature, particularly that composed in
Anglo-Saxon England
during the period 600?1100 AD; he is an emeritus Fellow of
Clare College, Cambridge
, a
Fellow of the British Academy
,
[2]
and winner of the 2009
Sir Israel Gollancz Prize
.
[3]
Education and career
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Lapidge completed his B.A. at the
University of Calgary
and taught there for three years after completing an M.A. (U of Alberta), before going to the
University of Toronto
in 1967 to begin work on a Ph.D. in the
Centre for Medieval Studies
. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by
Brian Stock
, studied the transmission of a nexus of cosmological metaphors, first articulated by Greek Stoic philosophers, to classical and late antique Latin poets, and ultimately to Medieval Latin philosophers and poets of the twelfth century. After completing course-work in Toronto, he went to Cambridge in 1969 to have better access to manuscript depositories while completing his dissertation. The Ph.D. was awarded in 1971.
Following a period as a Research Fellow in Cambridge supported by a Killam Senior Research Fellowship, he was appointed Lecturer in the
Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic, University of Cambridge
in 1974, thereafter progressing to be Reader in Insular Latin Literature (1988) and then, in 1991,
Elrington and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
, a chair which he held until 1998. During this time he was able, as Head of department, to increase the size of the department and to introduce a number of significant structural changes to its teaching programme.
[4]
He resigned the Professorship in 1999 in order to become Notre Dame Professor of English at the
University of Notre Dame
, a position he held until taking early retirement in 2004.
Publications
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Lapidge has written or edited more than fifty books and published some 200 articles, on subjects ranging from Greek
cosmology
and
Classical Latin literature
to medieval
palaeography
and
textual criticism
, especially the literature of Anglo-Saxon England, in both Latin and Old English. He is, for instance, an expert on the
Leiden Glossary
. He has devoted much of his scholarly energy to editing scholarly journals and series, having been general editor for many years of
Anglo-Saxon England
,
Oxford Medieval Texts
,
Scriptores Latini Hiberniae
, and
Henry Bradshaw Society Publications
, as well as
Compendium Auctorum Latinorum Medii Aevi (C.A.L.M.A.)
and
Cambridge Studies in Anglo-Saxon England
(both of which he founded). In 2002, he delivered the
Triennial E. A. Lowe Lectures
at
Corpus Christi College
,
University of Oxford
, speaking on the topic of "The Anglo-Saxon Library"; a revised version of his lectures was published by Oxford University Press.
[5]
Awards
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Lapidge was awarded the 2009
Sir Israel Gollancz Prize
from the
British Academy
for his work as "a world authority on
Anglo-Saxon literature
." He was awarded the degree of
Doctor of Letters
(Litt.D.) by the University of Cambridge in 1987; in 2011 he was awarded the
honorary degree
of D.Litt. by the
University of Toronto
.
[6]
He is a
corresponding fellow
both of the
Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften
(
Munich
) and the
Accademia dei Lincei
(
Rome
) and is vice-president of the
International Society for the Study of Medieval Latin Culture
(SISMEL).
[7]
Bibliography
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- Aldhelm: The Prose Works
, trans. with
Michael Herren
(Ipswich: Brewer, 1979).
- Alfred the Great
, trans. with
Simon Keynes
(Harmondsworth:
Penguin
, 1983).
- Gildas: New Approaches
, ed. with
David Dumville
(Woodbridge:
Boydell Press
, 1984).
- Aldhelm: The Poetic Works
, trans. with James L. Rosier (Woodbridge: D. S. Brewer, 1985).
- Learning and literature in Anglo-Saxon England: Studies presented to Peter Clemoes on the Occasion of his Sixty-fifth Birthday
, ed. with
Helmut Gneuss
(Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press
, 1985).
- A Bibliography of Celtic Latin Literature 400?1200
, with
Richard Sharpe
(Dublin:
Royal Irish Academy
, 1985).
- Cambridge Companion to Old English Literature
, ed. with
Malcolm Godden
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999, 2013).
- Wulfstan of Winchester: The Life of St Æthelwold
, ed. with
Michael Winterbottom
(Oxford:
Clarendon Press
, 1991).
- Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints
(Woodbridge: Published for the
Henry Bradshaw Society
by Boydell Press, 1991).
- Anglo-Latin Literature 900?1066
, (London: Hambledon Press, 1993).
- Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian
, ed. with
Bernhard Bischoff
(Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1994).
- Archbishop Theodore: Commemorative Studies on his Life and Influence
, ed. Michael Lapidge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995).
- Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion
, ed. with Peter S. Baker (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995).
- Anglo-Latin Literature 600?899
(London:
Hambledon Press
, 1996).
- Studies in Early Mediaeval Latin Glossaries
, by
W. M. Lindsay
, ed. Michael Lapidge (Aldershot:
Variorum
, 1996).
- Columbanus: Studies on the Latin Writings
(ed.) (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997).
- Collectanea Pseudo-Bedae
, ed. with Martha Bayless et al. (Dublin: Dublin Institute, 1998).
- The Blackwell encyclopaedia of Anglo-Saxon England
, ed. Michael Lapidge et al. (Oxford:
Blackwell
, 1999).
- Apomn?moneumata: Recollections of a Medieval Latinist
by
F. J. E. Raby
, ed. Michael Lapidge (Firenze: SISMEL - Edizioni del Galluzzo, 2002).
- Interpreters of Early Medieval Britain
(ed.) (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002).
- The Cult of St Swithun
, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2003).
- Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
, ed.
Tobias Reinhardt
, Michael Lapidge and J. N. Adams (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).
- Histoire ecclesiastique du peuple anglais: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
by Bede, introduction and notes by Andre Crepin, edition by Michael Lapidge, trans. Pierre Monat and Philippe Robin (Paris: Cerf, 2005).
- The Anglo-Saxon Library
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006).
ISBN
0-19-926722-7
- Storia degli inglesi: Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
by Beda; a cura di Michael Lapidge; traduzione di Paolo Chiesa, 2 vols. (Rome: Fondazione Lorenzo Valla; Milan:
A. Mondadori
, 2008?2010).
- Byrhtferth of Ramsey: The Lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine
(ed. and trans) (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2009).
- The Early Lives of St Dunstan
, ed. and trans. with Michael Winterbottom (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2012).
- Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts: A Bibliographical Handlist of Manuscripts and Manuscript Fragments written or owned in England up to 1100
, with Helmet Gneuss (Toronto:
University of Toronto Press
, 2014).
- H. M. Chadwick and the Study of Anglo-Saxon, Norse and Celtic in Cambridge
(ed.) (CMCS, Department of Welsh,
Aberystwyth University
, 2015).
- Hilduin of Saint-Denis: The
Passio S. Dionysii
in Prose and Verse
(Leiden:
Brill
, 2017)
- The Roman Martyrs
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018)
- Bede's Latin Poetry
(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019)
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