Anne Hudson (literary historian)

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Anne Hudson

Lollardism
InstitutionsLady Margaret Hall, Oxford
University of Oxford

Anne Mary Hudson,

Medieval English at the University of Oxford
from 1989 to 2003.

Early life and education

Hudson was born on 28 August 1938. She was educated at

Master of Arts (MA Oxon) degree. She also undertook postgraduate research at Oxford in relation to Robert of Gloucester's English chronicle,[2] and completed her Doctor of Philosophy (DPhil) degree in 1964.[1]

Academic career

From 1961 to 1963 Hudson was a college lecturer in

honorary fellow of Lady Margaret Hall.[1][3]

In addition to her university posts she held a number of senior appointments at the Early English Text Society: she served as its executive secretary from 1969 to 1982 and as its director from 2006 to 2013, and she was a member of its council since 1982.[1]

Hudson's research interests included

Lollards.[4][2]

Honours

In 1976 Hudson was elected a

Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (FRHistS).[1][5] She has twice been awarded the Sir Israel Gollancz Prize by the British Academy; in 1985 and in 1991.[6] In 1988 she was elected a Fellow of the British Academy (FBA), the United Kingdom's national academy for the humanities and the social sciences.[1][7]

A Festschrift was published in her honour in 2005: Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson, edited by Helen Barr and Ann M. Hutchison.[8]

Later life

Hudson died on 8 December 2021, aged 83.[9][4]

Selected works

  • Hudson, Anne, ed. (1978). Selections from English Wycliffite Writings. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
    ISBN 9780521282581
    .
  • Hudson, Anne (1988). The Premature Reformation: Wycliffite Texts and Lollard History. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
    ISBN 978-0-19-822762-5
    .
  • Hudson, Anne, ed. (1993). Two Wycliffite Texts: The Sermon of William Taylor 1406, the Testimony of William Thorpe 1407. Oxford: Early English Text Society.
    ISBN 978-0-19-722303-1
    .
  • ISBN 978-0-521-57576-8
    .
  • Hudson, Anne (2003). Lollards and their Books. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
    ISBN 978-0-907628-60-6
    .
  • Hudson, Anne (2008). Studies in the Transmission of Wyclif's Writings. Farnham: Ashgate.
    ISBN 978-0-7546-5964-8
    .
  • Hudson, Anne (2015). Doctors in English: A Study of the Wycliffite Gospel Commentaries. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press.
    ISBN 978-1-78138-131-1
    .

References

  1. ^
    Who's Who 2017, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 2017; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2016; online edn, Nov 2016 accessed 22 Nov 2017
  2. ^ a b c "Professor Anne Hudson FBA". The British Academy. Archived from the original on 27 January 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  3. ^ "Honorary and Emeritus Fellows". Lady Margaret Hall. University of Oxford. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Professor Anne Hudson". Faculty of English. University of Oxford. 9 December 2021. Archived from the original on 18 December 2021. Retrieved 18 December 2021.
  5. ^ "Fellows – H" (PDF). Royal Historical Society. May 2016. Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 December 2017. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  6. ^ "SIR ISRAEL GOLLANCZ MEMORIAL PRIZE" (PDF). British Academy. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  7. ^ "Professor Anne Hudson". British Academy. Retrieved 22 November 2017.
  8. ISBN 978-2503522098
    .
  9. ^ Michael Fraser [@drmikefraser] (9 December 2021). "In memory of Professor Anne Hudson FBA (1938-2021), Honorary Fellow @lmhoxford, who very sadly died on 8 Dec 2021. A remarkable scholar & wonderful friend; even a year ago was still active as co-investigator with @e_solopova on Wycliffite Bible research" (Tweet). Retrieved 18 December 2021 – via Twitter.
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