Tony Hunt

Background

Tony Hunt was born on March 21, 1944, in Bebington, Cheshire, United Kingdom. He is a son of Norman Blair, a bank manager, and Dorothy Gaskell Hunt, a homemaker (maiden name Mottershead).

Education

Tony Hunt received his Bachelor of Arts degree from the Worcester College, Oxford in 1965. Six years later, he earned a Master of Arts degree.

Career

Tony Hunt started his career at the University of Saint Andrews, Scotland in 1968 as a lecturer. By 1979, he became a reader. From 1986 to 1988, he lectured as a visiting professor of medieval studies at Westfield College of the University of London.

In a couple of years, Hunt joined the staff of the University of Oxford as a faculty lecturer in Medieval French Literature. He was also a lecturer and tutorial fellow in French at the university’s Saint Peter's College. Tony Hunt retired from teaching in 2009.

During his career, Hunt has written and edited a number of books on such topics as Medieval Medicine, and Anglo-Anglo-Norman Chess Treatises’ for the Anglo-Norman Text Society in 1980, he provided notes and compiled a glossary for these works that were difficult to understand in their original versions, as written by scribes in the twelfth century. In 1989, Hunt provided readers with a historical guide to botany with ‘Plant Names of Medieval England’.

Another volume focused on medieval medicine, ‘Popular Medicine in 13th-century England’, was issued the following year, and explored the history of science. Then Hunt attempted to sort out the relationship between the Latin, Anglo-Norman, and English used by pupils and teachers with his three-volume study, ‘Teaching and Learning Latin in 13th-century England’.

The results of his further researches in a similar vein have been gathered in such volumes as ‘The Medieval Surgery’, and ‘Villon's Last Will: Language and Authority in the Testament’ which discussed wills in literature.

Achievements

• Tony Hunt is an accomplished author, scholar, and educator.
  
  Recognized as an expert in Medieval history and the language of the period, he created a book, ‘Popular Medicine in 13th-century England’, which became according to some reviewers an important resource on its topic.
  
  His notes and a glossary for ‘Kalender’ and ‘Res Gius Partiz des Eschez: Two Anglo-Norman Chess Treatises’ facilitated the reading of these volumes by contrast to their original versions, as written by scribes in the twelfth century.
  
  In 2009, he was named an Officer of the Ordre des Palmes académiques (Order of Academic Palms).

Works

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  • Miraculous Rhymes: the Writing of Gautier de Coinci

    (This study of word-patterning in Gautier de Coinci seeks ...)

    2007
  • Villon's Last Will: Language and Authority in the Testament

    (Concentrating on the textual strategies of the work, in p...)

    1996
  • The Medieval Surgery

    (Tony Hunt presents, for the first time, the complete set ...)

    1992
  • Teaching and Learning Latin in Thirteenth-Century England

    (The book is destined to become an essential source-book f...)

    1991
  • Chretien De Troyes: Yvain 1986
  • Plant Names of Medieval England 1989
  • Popular Medicine in 13th-century England 1990

Membership

Tony Hunt was an honorary Treasurer of the Anglo-Norman Text Society from 1976 to 2011, and a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science & Letters in 1999.

Connections

Father:

Norman Blair

Mother:

Dorothy Gaskell Hunt