Michael Winterbottom, (born 22 September 1934) is an English

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Biography

Michael Winterbottom (born Sale, Cheshire on 22 September 1934) is an English classical scholar, who was Corpus Christi Professor of Latin at the University of Oxford from 1992 to 2001. He has worked mainly on Latin prose texts dating from the Roman Republic to the high Middle Ages. Winterbottom was educated at Dulwich College, London, and Pembroke College, Oxford. After National Service (R. Signals, 1956-8) he did graduate work at Merton College and then Christ Church, Oxford. After five years as Lecturer in Latin and Greek at University College London (1962-7), he returned to Oxford as Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Worcester College. He moved to Corpus Christi College in 1992 as Corpus Christi Professor of Latin, retiring in 2001. He was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1978 (now Emeritus).

Bibliography

Complete bibliography is available in Michael Winterbottom, ''Style and Scholarship: Latin Prose from Gildas to Raffaele Regio'' (ed. Roberto Gamberini, Firenze, 2020), pp. xxiii-xlvii; see also Michael Winterbottom, ''Papers on Quintilian and Ancient Declamation'' (ed. Antonio Stramaglia, Oxford, 2019), pp. xiii-xx.

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of the ''Regesta Imperii'', Mainz {{DEFAULTSORT:Winterbottom, Michael Living people 1934 births English classical scholars Alumni of Pembroke College, Oxford Fellows of Worcester College, Oxford Fellows of Corpus Christi College, Oxford People educated at Dulwich College Corpus Christi Professors of Latin Fellows of the British Academy Alumni of Merton College, Oxford