Eric Stanley

Eric Gerald Stanley FBA (19 October 1923 – 21 June 2018)[1] was a British scholar of Medieval literature, with a particular focus on Old English literature; he was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1977 to 1991 and was emeritus professor until his death. A Festschrift was published in his honour in 1996.[2]

Eric Stanley

FBA
Professor Eric Stanley at the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference held at St Edmund Hall (Oxford) in 2015. He gave every year the closing key-note address on the theme of the annual conference, in that year on 'Colour'.
Born(1923-10-19)October 19, 1923
DiedJune 21, 2018(2018-06-21) (aged 94)
NationalityBritish
OccupationScholar
TitleRawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Board member ofFellow of Pembroke College, Oxford
Academic work
DisciplineMedieval literature
Sub-disciplineOld English literature
Notable worksContinuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature
For the violinist, see Eric Stanley (violinist).

Publications
  • Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature. London: Nelson, 1966. OCLC 490782477.[3]
  • The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism. Cambridge: Brewer, 1975. OCLC 964063442.
  • In the Foreground: 'Beowulf'. Cambridge: Brewer, 1994. ISBN 9780859913942.[4]
  • Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2012. ISBN 9781846153280.[5]
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References
  1. "Professor Eric Stanley". pmb.ox.ac.uk.
  2. Toswell, M. J.; Elizabeth M. Tyler (1996). "Introduction". Studies in English Language & Literature: "Doubt Wisely": Papers in honour of E.G. Stanley. Routledge. pp. 1–8. ISBN 978-0-415-13848-2.
  3. Carrigan, E. (Summer 1968). "Review: A Critical History of Old English Literature by Stanley B. Greenfield; A Study of Old English Literature by C. L. Wrenn; Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature by E. G. Stanley". University Review. 5 (2): 257–60. JSTOR 25504844.
  4. Harris, Joseph (July 1998). "Review: In the Foreground: 'Beowulf' by Eric Gerald Stanley". Journal of English and Germanic Philology. 97 (3): 404–06. JSTOR 27711700.
  5. Richards, Mary P. (July 2002). "Review: Imagining the Anglo-Saxon past: "The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism" and "Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury" by Eric Gerald Stanley". Speculum. 77 (3): 995–96. doi:10.2307/3301195. JSTOR 3301195.



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