Dr. Paul Botley

Biography

Paul Botley is a Professor at the University of Warwick, specializing in Medieval and Renaissance Literature. He teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. His academic background includes a BA from Reading, an MA from York, and a PhD from Cambridge. He is a fellow of the Royal Historical Society and has held research fellowships at various prestigious institutions such as Cambridge University Library, University of Bristol, and Imperial College, London. His research interests encompass the classical tradition in early modern literature, Renaissance letters, neo-Latin literature, and the history of education during the Renaissance. His early work focused on Byzantine and Italian literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Currently, his research revolves around the Northern European Renaissance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, particularly the epistolary collections of prominent figures such as Joseph Scaliger and Isaac Casaubon. Botley is also an associate editor for Warwick Studies in Renaissance Thought and Culture and actively supervises doctoral students on various topics within early modern literature.

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