Anthony Stockwell Garfield Edwards (born 1942) is Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the
University of Kent. Having studied at the
University of Reading and
McMaster University, he earned his Ph.D. at the
University of London.
Edwards is the co-editor of the ''Index of Middle English Prose'' (IMEP), currently in its twenty-third volume. Edwards is the author of such works as ''Middle English Prose: a critical guide to major authors and genres'' and editor of ''A Companion to Middle English Prose'' and ''The Life of St Edmund, King & Martyr: John Lydgate's illustrated verse life presented to Henry VI''.
Edwards is also co-editor (with
Julia Boffey
Julia Boffey is Professor of Medieval Studies at Queen Mary University of London. She studied as an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge
Newnham College is a women's Colleges of the University of Cambridge, constituent college of the Un ...
) of the ''New Index of Middle English Verse'' (2005) and ''A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry'', and co-editor with
Vincent Gillespie
Vincent Gillespie, FEA (born February 11, 1954) is Emeritus J. R. R. Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford. He was editor of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies Series from 2002 until 2023, and is the ...
and Ralph Hanna of ''The English Medieval Book: Studies in Memory of Jeremy Griffiths'' (2000).
His research has been funded by the Guggenheim Foundation and he was a
Fellow in 1988-89.
He long served on the editorial board of
the Book Collector and was a frequent contributor.
References
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British medievalists
Living people
Chaucer scholars
English historians
1942 births