Dr. Nicholas Everett

Biography

Nicholas Everett studied modern history literature at the University of Queensland, and completed his PhD in medieval history at the University of Cambridge in 1997. He has taught at several prestigious institutions including the University of Illinois at Chicago, the University of Sheffield, the University of Queensland, Harvard University, and the University of Toronto since 2003. In addition to his teaching duties, Professor Everett serves as a Fellow of Trinity College and as a Public Orator. His research interests encompass early medieval Italy, medieval medicine, manuscripts, legal documents, and Latin philology. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society in the UK and a colleague of the European Science Foundation, and he serves on the editorial board for several book series and journals in the field of the history of pharmacy. His significant publications include 'Literacy in Lombard Italy c.568-774 AD' (Cambridge, 2003), 'Alphabet Galen: Pharmacy in Antiquity and the Middle Ages' (University of Toronto Press, 2012), and 'Patron Saints of Early Medieval Italy AD c.350-800: The History and Hagiography of Ten Biographies' (Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 2016).

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