Eric Stanley

Eric Stanley FBA
Professor Eric Stanley at the Oxford Medieval Graduate Conference held at St Edmund Hall (Oxford) in 2015. He gave every year the closing key-note address on the theme of the annual conference, in that year on 'Colour'.
Born	(1923-10-19)October 19, 1923
Died	June 21, 2018(2018-06-21) (aged 94)
Nationality	British
Occupation	Scholar
Title	Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon
Board member of	Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford
Academic work
Discipline	Medieval literature
Sub-discipline	Old English literature
Notable works	Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature

For the violinist, see Eric Stanley (violinist).

Eric Gerald Stanley FBA (19 October 1923 – 21 June 2018) was a British scholar of Medieval literature, with a particular focus on Old English literature; he was Rawlinson and Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon and Fellow of Pembroke College, Oxford, from 1977 to 1991 and was emeritus professor until his death. A Festschrift was published in his honour in 1996.

Publications

• Continuations and Beginnings: Studies in Old English Literature. London: Nelson, 1966. OCLC 490782477.
• The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism. Cambridge: Brewer, 1975. OCLC 964063442.
• In the Foreground: 'Beowulf'. Cambridge: Brewer, 1994. ISBN 9780859913942.
• Imagining the Anglo-Saxon Past: The Search for Anglo-Saxon Paganism and Anglo-Saxon Trial by Jury. Cambridge: Cambridge University, 2012. ISBN 9781846153280.