Vincent Gillespie

Vincent Gillespie (born 1954) is J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of Oxford, editor of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies Series, and the director of the Early English Text Society. He is the author of Looking in Holy Books, Syon Abbey (in the Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues), and the forthcoming A Short History of Medieval English Mysticism. He is the co-editor, with Kantik Ghosh, of After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth-Century England, with Susan Powell of A Companion to the Early Printed Book in Britain, 1476-1558, with Samuel Fanous of The Cambridge Companion to Medieval English Mysticism, and with Anne Hudson of Probable Truth: Editing Medieval Texts from Britain in the Twenty-First Century. In 2003 he was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society; in 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.