Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University

Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English, Cambridge University

The Chair in Medieval and Renaissance English is a professorship in English at Cambridge University. It was created in 1954 for C. S. Lewis, and is unusual among professorships in this field in uniting 'medieval' and 'renaissance' categories and fields of study.

Professors of Medieval and Renaissance English

* C. S. Lewis, 1954
* J. A. W. Bennett, 1964
* John Stevens, 1978
* Jill Mann, 1988
* James Simpson, 1999
* Helen Cooper, 2005


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