A. C. Spearing
Encyclopedia
Anthony Colin Spearing is William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia
, specialising in medieval literature. He is perhaps most widely known for his books on the Gawain-Poet and Medieval Dream-Poetry and for his translation of The Cloud of Unknowing
and Other Works for Penguin Classics.
and received his M.A. from the University of Cambridge
in 1960. He is a Life Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, and has an honorary Ph.D. from Lund University, Sweden.
. Works by Spearing include:
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia is a public research university located in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, founded by Thomas Jefferson...
, specialising in medieval literature. He is perhaps most widely known for his books on the Gawain-Poet and Medieval Dream-Poetry and for his translation of The Cloud of Unknowing
The Cloud of Unknowing
The Cloud of Unknowing is an anonymous work of Christian mysticism written in Middle English in the latter half of the 14th century. The text is a spiritual guide on contemplative prayer in the late Middle Ages.Manuscripts of the work are today at British Library and Cambridge University Library...
and Other Works for Penguin Classics.
Education
He was a student at Jesus College, Cambridge, a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, CambridgeGonville and Caius College, Cambridge
Gonville and Caius College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge in Cambridge, England. The college is often referred to simply as "Caius" , after its second founder, John Keys, who fashionably latinised the spelling of his name after studying in Italy.- Outline :Gonville and...
and received his M.A. from the University of Cambridge
University of Cambridge
The University of Cambridge is a public research university located in Cambridge, United Kingdom. It is the second-oldest university in both the United Kingdom and the English-speaking world , and the seventh-oldest globally...
in 1960. He is a Life Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge, and has an honorary Ph.D. from Lund University, Sweden.
Works
Spearing has published numerous books and papers on topics of medieval English literature, including many works on Geoffrey ChaucerGeoffrey Chaucer
Geoffrey Chaucer , known as the Father of English literature, is widely considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages and was the first poet to have been buried in Poet's Corner of Westminster Abbey...
. Works by Spearing include:
- Criticism and Medieval Poetry (1964, 2 edn 1972; ISBN 0064964418)
- An Introduction to Chaucer (with Maurice Hussey and James Winny, 1965; ISBN 0521092868)
- The Medieval Poet as Voyeur (1993; ISBN 0521410940)
- Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Romances and Lyrics (2005; ISBN 0198187246).
External links
- A. C. Spearing articles from JSTORJSTORJSTOR is an online system for archiving academic journals, founded in 1995. It provides its member institutions full-text searches of digitized back issues of several hundred well-known journals, dating back to 1665 in the case of the Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society...