Jeremy Norcliffe Haslehurst Lawrance FBA (born 12 December 1952) is a Ugandan born British

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and

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. Professor at Manchester and later at Nottingham, and Fellow of the

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since 2011, he was President of the

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from 2004 to 2006.

Life

Born at Jinja,

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, near the source of the

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, Lawrance was the son of Jeremy Charles Dalton Lawrance, OBE and officer of the

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, by his marriage to Elizabeth Ann Haslehurst. His father was also a writer on the

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and their

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and on African

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. Lawrance was educated at

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, and

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, where he graduated MA in 1978 and

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in 1983. From 1978 until 1985 he was a

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. In 1985 he migrated to the

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, where he was a lecturer in Spanish until 1993, then Professor of Spanish until 2006. From 2006 up until his retirement in 2018, he has been Professor of Spanish Golden Age Studies at the

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. In 2018 Lawrance moved back to Oxford, where he holds an Honorary Research Fellowship at the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages. His areas of academic interest are the impact of

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and the revival of learning in Spain during the

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and the

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, the history of Spanish cultures in the

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and the early modern period, and editing unpublished manuscripts and early printed books. His most notable work includes a critical translation of

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's political writings, with

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, published by

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in 1991. In ''

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'', Lawrance states his recreations as "Searching for stone circles with daughter, entertaining friends, evading capture by elephants, loud music, geriatric football, Bologna."'LAWRANCE, Prof. Jeremy Norcliffe Haslehurst', in ''Who's Who 2014'' (London: A. & C. Black, 2014)
online edition
by Oxford University Press, December 2013, accessed 3 May 2014 (subscription site)

Selected publications

*"On Fifteenth-Century Spanish Vernacular Humanism" in Ian Michael and Richard A. Cardwell (eds.), ''Medieval and Renaissance studies in honour of Robert Brian Tate'' (Oxford: Dolphin, 1986)Arthur Terry, ''Tirant Lo Blanc: New Approaches'' (1999), p. 134 *''Francisco de Vitoria: political writings'', ed. and translated with

(Cambridge University Press, 1991) *"The Middle Indies: Damião de Góis on Preseter John and the Ethiopians" in ''Renaissance Studies'' 6 (1992) *''Alfonso de Palencia: Gesta Hispaniensia'', ed. and translated with Brian Tate, vol. 1 (1998), vol. 2 (1999) *"Black Africans in Renaissance Spanish literature", Chapter 3 of Thomas Foster Earle, K. J. P. Lowe (eds.), ''Black Africans in Renaissance Europe'' (2005) *"Illustrating the Language: the cultural role of translation in the Spanish Renaissance" in Rhian Davies, Anny Brooksbank Jones (eds.), ''The Place of Argument: essays in honour of Nicholas G. Round'' (2007), pp. 125–148 *''The Textual History and Authorship of Celestina'', with

Alan Deyermond Alan Deyermond FBA (24 February 1932 – 19 September 2009) was a British professor of medieval Spanish literature and Hispanist. His obituary called him "the English-speaking world's leading scholar of medieval Hispanic literature". He spen ...

and Keith Whinnom (Department of Hispanic Studies, Queen Mary, University of London, 2007) *''Spanish Conquest, Protestant Prejudice: Las Casas and the Black Legend'' (Nottingham, 2009)

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External links

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