Prof Peter Dronke, FBA

Career: res fell Merton Coll Oxford 1958-61; Univ of Cambridge: lectr in medieval Latin 1961-79, fell Clare Hall 1964-, reader 1979-89, prof of medieval Latin lit 1989-; guest lectr Univ of Munich 1960, guest prof Centre d'E>ac

Books and Publications: Medieval Latin and the Rise of the European Love-Lyric (2 volumes, 1965-66), The Medieval Lyric (1968), Poetic Individuality in the Middle Ages (1970), Fabula (1974), Abelard and Heloise in Medieval Testimonies (1976), Barbara et Antiquissima Carmina (with Ursula Dronke, 1977), Bernardus Silvestris Cosmographia (ed, 1978), Introduction to Francesco Colonna Hypnerotomachia (1981), Women Writers of the Middle Ages (1984), The Medieval Poet and his World (1984), Dante and Medieval Latin Traditions (1986), Introduction to Rosvita, Dialoghi Drammatici (1986), A History of Twelfth Century Western Philosophy (1988), Hermes and the Sibyls (1990), Latin and Vernacular Poets of the Middle Ages (1991), Intellectuals and Poets in Medieval Europe (1992), Verse with Prose from Petronius to Dante (1994), Nine Medieval Latin Plays (1994)