Anthony Bale

Positions held:

Professor of Medieval Studies, School of Creative Arts, Culture and Communication

Email

Birkbeck: a.bale@bbk.ac.uk

Tel

Birkbeck: 020 3926 2611

Overview
Overview

This member of staff is currently on sabbatical.

Biography

Anthony Bale is Professor of Medieval Studies and, from 2017-21, was Executive Dean of the School of Arts. He has taught on the BA English and MA Medieval Literature and Culture and currently supervises doctoral students working on medieval topics.
Bale has published widely on medieval literature, culture, and religion. In particular, his work has explored relations between Christians and Jews in medieval England and, more recently, the culture of medieval pilgrimage. He has also edited and translated several medieval texts, and new translations and editions of The Book of Marvels & Travels by John Mandeville, The Book of Margery Kempe, and Medieval English Travel, a sourcebook, all with Oxford University Press. His current work explores travel, books, and pilgrimage between England and the Holy Land in the later Middle Ages. His new study of Margery Kempe, Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life, was published by Reaktion Books in October 2021. His new book, A Travel Guide to the Middle Ages will be published by Penguin in the UK in November 2023.
He has received fellowships and research funding from the Arts & Humanities Research Council, the Australian Research Councils, the British Academy, Harvard University, the Huntington Library, the Leverhulme Trust, the University of Michigan Frankel Institute, the National Humanities Center, and the Pilgrim Trust. He was President of the New Chaucer Society from 2020 to 2022.
Bale will hold a Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2023 to 2026 to support his work on the Siege of Rhodes and the emergence of news writing in Middle English.

Highlights
- Professor Bale discusses medieval pilgrimage with Melvyn Bragg on BBC Radio 4's In Our Time, February 2021
- Professor Bale will be a guest lecturer at the 2023 Hiroshima International Conference 'Global Chaucer in the XXIst Century' and a guest speaker to the ERA: English Research Association of Hiroshima, in Hiroshima, Japan, in August 2023
- Professor Bale appeared on BBC Radio 4's flagship cultural discussion programme Front Row, 6 October 2022.
- Professor Bale has recently published his new book, Margery Kempe: A Mixed Life (London: Reaktion, 2021), a new biography of the medieval mystic and author.
- Professor Bale discusses the Jews of medieval Lincoln with Professor Alice Roberts on Britain's Most Historic Towns on Channel 4, November 2020
- Professor Bale discusses the life and poetry of Geoffrey Chaucer with Bridget Kendall on BBC World Service's The Forum here, July 2020
Qualifications
- DPhil, Oxford University, 2001
- MA, University of York, 1998
- MA, Oxford University, 1997
Web profiles
- Twitter
Visiting posts
- Morton Bloomfield Fellow, Harvard University, 03-2019 to 05-2019
- Erika and Kenneth Riley Fellow, Huntington Library, California, 07-2018 to 09-2018
- Brittingham Fellowship for Teaching Excellence, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 09-2015 to 09-2015
- Walter Hines Page Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation, National Humanities Centre, North Carolina, USA, 09-2012 to 06-2013
Honours and awards
- Preservation and Scholarship Award, Pilgrim Trust, November 2016
- Brittingham Fellow for Teaching Excellence, University of Wisconsin, Madison, November 2015
- Beatrice White Prize, The English Association, December 2012
- Philip Leverhulme Prize, Leverhulme Trust, November 2011
- Ronald Tress Prize, Birkbeck College, November 2007
- Jewish Studies Publication Prize, Koret Foundation, November 2005
ORCID
0000-0001-8248-9476
Research
Research

Research overview

My research interests are in late medieval English literature, culture, and popular religion. My research has explored Christian ideas about Jews and Judaism, the poetry of John Lydgate, the cult of St Edmund, Sir John Mandeville and his Book, pain and affect in medieval religion, the representation of Jerusalem, the history of imprisonment, travel, and The Book of Margery Kempe.
My first monograph was a study of medieval English writing about Jews called The Jew in the Medieval Book: English Antisemitisms 1350-1500 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006) which was awarded a Koret Foundation Jewish Studies Publications Program award and the 2006/7 Ronald Tress Prize.
This was followed by an AHRC-funded study of the poetry of John Lydgate; this resulted in several articles, a co-edition of Lydgate's Lives of Ss Edmund and Fremund (Winter: Heidelberg, 2009) and a collection of edited essays on the cult of St Edmund (St Edmund King & Martyr: Changing Images of a Medieval Saint).
My second monograph, funded by a Leverhulme Research Fellowship, interrogated affective violence and imaginative persecution in late medieval European representations of Judaism. Much of the research into this project was undertaken as a Frankel Fellow at the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan Ann Arbor, 2008/9; the resulting book, Feeling Persecuted: Christians, Jews and Images of Violence (London: Reaktion, 2010), was awarded the 2011 Beatrice White Prize by the English Association.
Subsequently, I have edited and translated both The Book & Marvels by Sir John Mandeville and The Book of Margery Kempe for Oxford’s World’s Classics, put together an edited collection of essays for The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of the Crusades, and co-edited, with Sebastian Sobecki, a major collection of Middle English writings about the world, Medieval English Travel: A Critical Anthology.
I was the Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded Research Network: Remembered Places and Invented Traditions in 2012. I was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize for 2011-13, which supported my research on the Holy Land, which was followed by a Leverhulme International Research Network on Pilgrim Libraries: Books & Reading on the Medieval Routes to Rome and Jerusalem.
My research has been enriched by a number of creative projects too – including working on animation and medieval manuscripts, and in two exhibitions (Blood: Uniting & Dividing and Jews, Money, Myth), with the Jewish Museum London.

Research Centres and Institutes
- Medieval and Early Modern Worlds
Research projects

Medieval news media and the writing of the Siege of Rhodes (1480), 2023-26

Abstract

Medieval news media and the writing of the Siege of Rhodes (1480).

Funded by
Leverhulme Trust

Funding amount
172411

Morton Bloomfield Fellowship 2019

Abstract

Holder of the Morton Bloomfield Fellowship, Department of English, at Harvard University, spring 2019. During this period I continued my research on Margery Kempe.

Erika & Kenneth Riley Fellowship, 2018

Abstract

Fellowship at the Huntington Library, California, summer 2018. During this period I worked on an article on pilgrims' books, and on Margery Kempe.

Funding type
Fellowship

Animating the Medieval Book, 2017

Abstract

For animation director Shay Hamias to work with me on animation and medieval manuscripts.

Funded by
Leverhulme Trust

Funding amount
£13,375.19

Funder ID code
2016-AIR-095

Funding type
Artist-in-Residence Award

Outcomes

The Matter of Jerusalem, Shay Hamias and Anthony Bale

Pilgrim Trust Preservation & Scholarship Award, ‘Four medieval manuscripts at Birkbeck College’, 2016-17

Funding amount
£4000

Funding type
Preservation and Scholarship Award

'Pilgrim Libraries: Books & Reading on the Medieval Routes to Jerusalem and Rome', International Network Grant, 2016-18

Abstract

In the later Middle Ages, thousands of European pilgrims travelled to Jerusalem and Rome, part of a highly organised industry. This two-year project (2016-18) seeks to interrogate the surviving books that the pilgrims read and wrote before, during, and after their pilgrimages to reveal what can they tell us about premodern trans-national culture.
At the heart of this project is the development of an international and interdisciplinary network of scholars of medieval bibliography, history, literature and religion. The Network will make a dynamic and lasting contribution to our understanding of the mobility of people and ideas of medieval Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, particularly along the pilgrim routes between Venice, Dubrovnik, Cyprus and Jerusalem, as well as to Rome (which rivalled the Jerusalem pilgrimage in popularity).
By marrying archival bibliography with literary criticism and cultural history the Network will bring questions about the survival of medieval texts into a scholarly conversation about reading them beyond their immediate locality in trans-national contexts.
The project will embrace contemporary concerns of religious hostility, devotional memory, migration, multiculturalism, and nationhood, the curatorship of the past and contemporary legacies of medieval pilgrimage.

Funded by
Leverhulme Trust

Funding amount
£100,455

Funder ID code
IN-2015-041

Outcomes

A special edition of the Journal of Medieval & Early Modern Studies (Duke University Press), January 2021

Distinguished International Fellowship, Australian Research Councils, Centre for Excellence for the Study of the History of Emotions, University of Melbourne and University of Western Australia, 2015

Abstract

To work on a project on alpine experience in the Middle Ages

Walter Hines Page Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation, 2012-13

Abstract

During this year-long fellowship I mainly worked on medieval pilgrimage to Jerusalem, especially my article on the Prison of Christ, and on my translation of The Book of Margery Kempe

Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2011-14

Abstract

I was awarded a Philip Leverhulme Prize, ‘awarded to outstanding scholars under the age of 36 who have made a substantial contribution to their field of study, are recognised at an international level, and who future contributions are held to be of correspondingly high promise’. During the Fellowship I developed my work on medieval pilgrimage and travel cultures.

Funded by
Leverhulme Trust

Funding amount
£70,000

AHRC Research Networking Award, ‘Remembered Places and Invented Traditions: Thinking about the Holy Land in the Late Medieval West’, 2011

Funding amount
£29,272

Funder ID code
AH/J002704/1

SOCRATES Fellowship, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, 2011

Frankel Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2008-9

Leverhulme Research Fellowship, ‘Terror, pleasure, and the medieval Jewish image’, 2008-9

Abstract

Funding amount
£6,691

Funder ID code
RFG-11086

Funding type
RAAC Research Fellowships and Grants

Outcomes

British Academy Conference Grant, 2007

AHRC Research Leave Award, 'The Minor Poems of John Lydgate: Audience, Context, Interpretation', 2006

Abstract

I worked on various publications relating to Lydgate's poetry, including an edited collection of essays on St Edmund, an essay on the East Anglian gentrywoman and patroness Sibylle Boys, an entry on Boys for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, and an edition of Lydgate's Lives of Ss Edmund and Fremund.

Funding amount
£15,301

Funder ID code
112804/1

Funding type
Research grant

'Arma Christi rolls and books in North American collections', 2003

Funding type
Neil Ker Memorial Fund grant
Supervision and teaching
Supervision and teaching

This member of staff is currently on sabbatical.

Supervision

Supervisions external to Birkbeck:

1

Supervisions within Birkbeck:

6

I am currently supervising or co-supervising several doctoral projects. I am happy to consider enquiries from potential doctoral students on topics relating to
- aspects of medieval English literature and culture 1200-1550
- Chaucer, Mandeville, Lydgate, Margery Kempe
- pilgrimage, the medieval Holy Land, Jerusalem, medieval travel writing
- editing and translating medieval texts, book history, marginalia
- medieval Anglo-Jewish history, the history of antisemitism
- medieval hagiography
  Please don't hesitate to contact me if you would like an informal discussion about your ideas for an MPhil or PhD.
Current doctoral researchers
- GEORGINA TREVELYAN-CLARK
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2017 onwards
- MALCOLM WHITE
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2017 onwards
- PETER NOWELL
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Joint Principal Supervisor, Oct 2020 onwards
Doctoral alumni since 2013-14
- ELEANOR MYERSON
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2018
  
  Title of thesis:
  Narratives of Medieval Syriana: Imported Objects, Diasporic Presence and Melancholia (1291-1516)
  
  Awarded:
  2022
- MATT CLANCY
  
  Nature of supervision:
  Principal Supervisor, Oct 2016
  
  Title of thesis:
  The Agency of Arthurian Material Culture in the Later Middle Ages
  
  Awarded:
  2020
Teaching

I teach across Foundation Year, BA, and MA programmes in the Department of English, Theatre & Creative Writing. This includes classes on modules such as The Arts: Perspectives and Possibilities (Foundation Year), Reading Literature (BA), Production of the Human (BA), Critically Queer (BA), Medieval Worlds (MA), and Writing the Self (MA). My teaching covers literary criticism and theory, cultural history, and creative non-fiction. My teaching covers medieval literature and culture, but also embraces topics as diverse as travel writing, holocaust writing, autobiography and memoir, 'race' and antisemitism, palaeography, and cultural theory.
Publications
Publications
Article
- Bale, Anthony (2023) News from the East. Studies In The Age of Chaucer 45 (2023), ISSN 0190-2407.
- Bale, Anthony and Rosenthal, J. (2022) Curating the past: blood and money in London. Jewish Culture and History 23 (1), pp. 3-20. ISSN 1462-169X.
- Bale, Anthony and Beebe, K. (2021) Pilgrimage and textual culture. Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 51 (1), pp. 1-8. ISSN 1082-9636.
- Bale, Anthony (2020) Reflections on Chaucer, Pedagogy, and the Profession of Medieval Studies. New Chaucer Studies: Pedagogy and Profession 1 (1), pp. 5-17.
- Bale, Anthony (2019) Is Brexit a 'crusade'?. FifteenthEightyFour
- Bale, Anthony (2017) Richard Salthouse of Norwich and the scribe of the Book of Margery Kempe. Chaucer Review 52 (2), pp. 173-187. ISSN 0009-2002.
- Bale, Anthony (2017) Poems of protest: Meir ben Elijah and the Jewish people of early Britain. Our Migration Story
- Bale, Anthony (2016) “ut legi”: Sir John Mandeville’s audience and three late-medieval English travellers to Italy and Jerusalem.. Studies In The Age of Chaucer 38, pp. 201-237. ISSN 0190-2407.
- Bale, Anthony (2016) Book review: Kathryne Beebe, Pilgrim and Preacher: The Audiences and Observant Spirituality of Friar Felix Fabri (1437/8–1502). Speculum 91 (3), pp. 756-757. ISSN 0038-7134.
- Bale, Anthony (2016) God's cell: Christ as prisoner and pilgrimage to the prison of Christ. Speculum 91 (1), pp. 1-35. ISSN 0038-7134.
- Bale, Anthony (2016) In the blood. Jewish Renaissance ISSN 1476–1769.
- Bale, Anthony (2016) Cosmopolitanism or competition? Late Medieval pilgrims at the eastern Christian holy places. Études arméniennes contemporaines 9, ISSN 2269-5281.
- Bale, Anthony (2014) Woman in white: why Margery Kempe divides modern readers as much as she did her medieval audience. The Times Literary Supplement pp. 16. ISSN 0307-661X.
- Bale, Anthony (2012) Late medieval book-owners named John Leche. Bodleian Library Record 25 (1), pp. 105-112. ISSN 0067-9488.
- Bale, Anthony (2009) A Norfolk gentlewoman and Lydgatian patronage: Lady Sibylle Boys and her cultural environment. Medium Aevum 78 (2), pp. 394-413. ISSN 0025-8385.
- Bale, Anthony (2008) From translator to Laureate: imagining the medieval author. Literature Compass 5 (5), pp. 918-934. ISSN 1741-4113.
- Bale, Anthony (2008) Twenty First Century Lydgate. Modern Philology 105 (4), pp. 698-704. ISSN 0026-8232.
- Bale, Anthony (2006) The Jew in profile. New Medieval Literatures 8, pp. 125-150. ISSN 1465-3737.
- Bale, Anthony (2000) Richard of Devizes and fictions of Judaism. Jewish Culture and History 3 (2), pp. 55-72. ISSN 1462-169X.
Audio
- Bale, Anthony and Rubin, M. and Lewis, K. and Bragg, M. (2016) In our time: Margery Kempe and English mysticism. BBC.
Book
- Bale, Anthony (2024) A travel guide to the Middle Ages: the world through medieval eyes. New York, U.S.: W. N. Norton & Co.. ISBN 9781324064572. (In Press)
- Bale, Anthony (2023) Op reis in de Middeleeuwen: De wereld door de ogen van geleerden, spionnen en heiligen. Amsterdam: Uitgeverij Balans. ISBN 9789463823067. (In Press)
- Bale, Anthony (2023) A travel guide to the Middle Ages: the world through medieval eyes. London: Viking Penguin. ISBN 9780241530849. (In Press)
- Bale, Anthony (2021) Margery Kempe: a mixed life. Medieval Lives. London, UK: Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781789144703.
- Bale, Anthony and Sobecki, S., eds. (2019) Medieval English travel: a critical anthology. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198733782.
- Bale, Anthony, ed. (2019) The Cambridge companion to the literature of the crusades. Cambridge Companions. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108474511.
- Bale, Anthony and Feldman, David (2015) Blood: reflections on what unites and divides us. London, UK: Bloomsbury Shire. ISBN 9781784421380.
- Bale, Anthony (2015) The Book of Margery Kempe. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199686643.
- Mandeville, J. and Bale, Anthony (2012) The book of marvels and travels. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199600601.
- Bale, Anthony (2010) Feeling persecuted: Christians, Jews and images of violence in the middle ages. London, UK: Reaktion Books. ISBN 9781861897619.
- Bale, Anthony (2010) The Jew in the medieval book: English antisemitisms 1350–1500. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521142038.
Book Section
- Bale, Anthony (2023) The communities of the book of Margery Kempe. In: Saunders, C. and Watt, D. (eds.) Women and Medieval Literary Culture. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 420-437. ISBN 9781108869485.
- Bale, Anthony and Giosue, D. (2021) A women’s network in fifteenth-century Rome: Margery Kempe encounters “Margaret Florentyne”. In: Varnam, L. and Williams, L. (eds.) Encountering the Book of Margery Kempe. Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press. ISBN 9781526146618. (In Press)
- Bale, Anthony (2021) From Nidaros to Jerusalem; from Feginsbrekka to Mount Joy. In: Aavitsland, K.B. and Bonde, L.M. (eds.) Tracing the Jerusalem Code. Berlin, Germany: Walter de Gruyter. pp. 187-193. ISBN 9783110634853.
- Bale, Anthony (2021) Foreward. In: Brooks, G. (ed.) The Dancing Plague. London, UK: Abrams and Chronicle. ISBN 9781910593981. (In Press)
- Bale, Anthony (2021) Chaucer's borders. In: Johnson, I. (ed.) Geoffrey Chaucer in Context. Literature in Context. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 311-319. ISBN 9781009010603.
- Bale, Anthony (2020) Pilgrims' books. In: Gillespie, A. and Lynch, D. (eds.) The Unfinished Book. Oxford Twenty-First Century Approaches to Literature. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198830801.
- Bale, Anthony (2020) Lydgate's Chaucer. In: Conklin Akbari, S. and Simpson, J. (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Chaucer. Oxford Handbooks. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press. pp. 580-600. ISBN 9780199582655.
- Bale, Anthony and Ingham, P. (2020) Chaucer's sense of an ending. In: Grady, F. (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to the Canterbury Tales. Cambridge Companions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316848463.
- Bale, Anthony (2019) Where did Margery Kempe cry?. In: Barbezat, M. and Scott, A. (eds.) Fluid Bodies and Bodily Fluids in Premodern Europe: Bodies, Blood, and Tears in Literature, Theology, and Art. Arc Humanities Press. ISBN 9781641892384.
- Bale, Anthony (2019) Afterword: three letters. In: Burger, G. and Crocker, H. (eds.) Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion. Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 203. ISBN 9781108471961.
- Bale, Anthony (2018) Foreword: The Virgin of Bethlehem, gender, and space. In: Heath, D. and Blud, V. and Klafter, E. (eds.) Gender in medieval spaces, places, and threholds. London: Institute of Historical Research, University of London School of Advanced Study. pp. xv-xviii. ISBN 9781909646858.
- Bale, Anthony (2017) Dracula's blood. In: Luckhurst, Roger (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Dracula. Cambridge Companions to Literature. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 104-113. ISBN 9781316607084.
- Bale, Anthony (2016) European travel writing in the Middle Ages. In: Thompson, C. (ed.) The Routledge Companion to Travel Writing. Routledge Literature Companions. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 152-160. ISBN 9780203366127.
- Bale, Anthony (2014) Belligerent literacy, bookplates, and graffiti: Dorothy Helbarton's book. In: Partington, G. and Smyth, A. (eds.) Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary. New Directions in Book History. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 89-111. ISBN 9781137367655.
- Bale, Anthony (2014) Belligerent literary, bookplates and graffiti: Dorothy Helbarton's book. In: Smyth, Adam and Partington, Gillian (eds.) Book Destruction from the Medieval to the Contemporary. New Directions in Book History. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 89-111. ISBN 9781137367655.
- Bale, Anthony (2013) Christians and Jews, love and hate. In: Crocker, H. and Smith, V. (eds.) Medieval Literature: Criticism and Debates. Routledge Criticism and Debates in Literature. Abingdon, UK: Routledge. pp. 65-73. ISBN 9780415667895.
- Bale, Anthony (2013) John Lydgate's religious poetry. In: Boffey, J. and Edwards, A.S.G. (eds.) A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry. Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer. pp. 73-86. ISBN 9781843843535.
- Bale, Anthony (2013) Afterword: violence, memory, and the traumatic Middle Ages. In: Rees-Jones, S. and Watson, S. (eds.) Christians and Jews in Angevin England. Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer. pp. 294-304. ISBN 9781903153444.
- Bale, Anthony (2012) Fictions of Judaism in England before 1290. In: Skinner, P. (ed.) Jews in Medieval Britain Historical, Literary and Archaeological Perspectives. Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer. pp. 129-144. ISBN 9781843837336.
- Bale, Anthony (2010) 'A maner latyn corrupt': Chaucer and the absent religions. In: Phillips, H. (ed.) Chaucer and Religion. Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching/Research. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781843842293.
- Bale, Anthony (2009) St Edmund in fifteenth-century London: the Lydgatian miracles of St Edmund. In: Bale, Anthony (ed.) St Edmund King and Martyr: Changing Images of a Medieval Saint. Woodbridge, UK: Boydell & Brewer. pp. 145-162. ISBN 9781903153260.
- Bale, Anthony (2008) Boys, Lady Sibylle, c. 1370- c. 1456, literary patron. In: Goldman, L. (ed.) Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press.
- Bale, Anthony (2008) Christian antisemitism and intermedial experience in late medieval England. In: Dimmock, M. and Hadfield, A. (eds.) The Religions of the Book: Christian Perceptions, 1400-1660. Early Modern Literature in History. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave MacMillan. pp. 23-44. ISBN 9780230020047.
- Bale, Anthony (2007) The female `Jewish' libido in medieval culture. In: Hopkins, A. and Rushton, C.J. (eds.) The Erotic in the Literature of Medieval Britain. Suffolk, UK: Boydell & Brewer. ISBN 9781843841197.
- Bale, Anthony (2004) Stow's medievalism and antique Judaism in early modern London. In: Anders Gadd, I. and Gillespie, A. (eds.) John Stow (1525-1605) and The Making of the English Past: Studies In Early Modern Culture and the History of the Book. London, UK: The British Library. pp. 69-80. ISBN 9780712348645.
Conference Item
- Bale, Anthony (2014) Cosmopolitanism or competing traditions? Late Medieval English pilgrims at the eastern Christian holy places. The Making of Jerusalem: Constructed Spaces and Historic Communities, 2014, Jerusalem, Israel
Exhibition
- Bale, Anthony and Volovici, M. and Feldman, David (2019) Jews, money, myth.
- Bale, Anthony and Hamias, S. (2018) Capsule: Inside the medieval book.
- Bale, Anthony and Feldman, David (2015) Blood.
Other
- Bale, Anthony (2016) Reading en route with Margery Kempe. University of Surrey.
Video
- Bale, Anthony and Hamias, S. (2017) Time is alive. Vimeo.

Anthony Bale

Overview

Biography

Highlights

Qualifications

Web profiles

Visiting posts

Honours and awards

ORCID

Research

Research overview

Research Centres and Institutes

Research projects

Medieval news media and the writing of the Siege of Rhodes (1480), 2023-26

Morton Bloomfield Fellowship 2019

Erika & Kenneth Riley Fellowship, 2018

Animating the Medieval Book, 2017

Pilgrim Trust Preservation & Scholarship Award, ‘Four medieval manuscripts at Birkbeck College’, 2016-17

'Pilgrim Libraries: Books & Reading on the Medieval Routes to Jerusalem and Rome', International Network Grant, 2016-18

Distinguished International Fellowship, Australian Research Councils, Centre for Excellence for the Study of the History of Emotions, University of Melbourne and University of Western Australia, 2015

Walter Hines Page Fellowship of the Research Triangle Foundation, 2012-13

Philip Leverhulme Prize, 2011-14

AHRC Research Networking Award, ‘Remembered Places and Invented Traditions: Thinking about the Holy Land in the Late Medieval West’, 2011

SOCRATES Fellowship, Ludwig Maximilians Universitaet, Munich, 2011

Frankel Fellowship, University of Michigan, 2008-9

Leverhulme Research Fellowship, ‘Terror, pleasure, and the medieval Jewish image’, 2008-9

British Academy Conference Grant, 2007

AHRC Research Leave Award, 'The Minor Poems of John Lydgate: Audience, Context, Interpretation', 2006

'Arma Christi rolls and books in North American collections', 2003

Supervision and teaching

Supervision

Current doctoral researchers

GEORGINA TREVELYAN-CLARK

MALCOLM WHITE

PETER NOWELL

Doctoral alumni since 2013-14

ELEANOR MYERSON

MATT CLANCY

Teaching

Publications

Article

Audio

Book

Book Section

Conference Item

Exhibition

Other

Video