A. C. Spearing Explained

Anthony Colin Spearing (born 31 January 1936) is William R. Kenan Jr. Professor of English at the University of Virginia, specialising in medieval literature. He translated The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works for Penguin Classics.^[1]

Education

He was a student at Jesus College, Cambridge, a research fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and received his M.A. from the University of Cambridge in 1960.^[2] He has been a Fellow of Queens' College, Cambridge since 1960, and Life Fellow since 1987.^[3] 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.^[4]

Works

Spearing has published numerous books and papers on topics of medieval English literature, including many works on Geoffrey Chaucer. 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;).

External links

• A. C. Spearing articles from JSTOR

Notes and References

1. Web site: The Cloud of Unknowing and Other Works by Anonymous. PenguinRandomhouse.com . 30 January 2023.
2. http://www.engl.virginia.edu/faculty/spearing_ac.shtml A. C. Spearing (1987)
3. http://www.queens.cam.ac.uk/page-249 Fellows 1900–99
4. http://www.engl.virginia.edu/node/1272 Professor A. C. Spearing awarded Doctor of Letters from Cambridge