Anthony Colin Spearing (born 31 January 1936) is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the

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, specialising in medieval literature. He translated '' The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works'' for

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Education

He was a student at

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, a research fellow at

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and received his M.A. from the

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in 1960. He has been a Fellow of

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since 1960, and Life Fellow since 1987. 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.Professor A. C. Spearing awarded Doctor of Letters from Cambridge
from the Department of English of the

Works

Spearing has published numerous books and papers on topics of medieval English literature, including many works on

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. Works by Spearing include: *''Criticism and Medieval Poetry'' (1964, 2 edn 1972; ) *''An Introduction to Chaucer'' (with Maurice Hussey and James Winny, 1965; ) * ''The Medieval Poet as Voyeur'' (1993; ) *''Textual Subjectivity: The Encoding of Subjectivity in Medieval Romances and Lyrics'' (2005; ).

References

External links

A. C. Spearing articles
from

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University of Virginia faculty Scholars of English literature Historians of English literature 1936 births Living people Alumni of Jesus College, Cambridge Fellows of Queens' College, Cambridge–—° {{US-English-academic-bio-stub