About

Dr Paul Botley is Associate Professor (Reader), and teaches in the Department of English and Comparative Literary Studies and in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. He studied at Reading (BA), York (MA) and Cambridge (PhD). He has held fellowships at Cambridge University Library, at the University of Bristol, and at Imperial College, London. In 2004, he moved to the Warburg Institute, London, to edit the correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609). He joined the department at Warwick in 2011.

Research interests

Dr Botley's research interests include the classical tradition in early modern literature; renaissance letters; neo-Latin literature; Erasmus; the history of the Bible; education in the renaissance; translation; the Greek diaspora in renaissance Europe; and the history of scholarship. His earliest work, and his first two books, focussed on Byzantine and Italian literature of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. His current research centres on the nothern European renaissance of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. In 2012 he published with Dirk van Miert an edition of the letters of the renaissance polymath Joseph Scaliger (d. 1609) in eight volumes. More recently, he has published a book on one of the translators of the King James Bible, Richard ‘Dutch’ Thomson (d. 1613).

Dr Botley's research on the letters of the great renaissance scholar Isaac Casaubon (1559-1614) is funded by the Leverhulme Trust. This project is preparing a critical edition of Isaac Casaubon’s correspondence during his last years in England, 1610-1614, when he was at the height of his powers and his international fame. The edition will contain over seven hundred letters, nearly half of which have never been printed, and it will be published in four volumes in Geneva in 2018.

Teaching and supervision

Paul Botley teaches EN121 Medieval to Renaissance Literature and EN356 The Classical Tradition in English Translation: The Renaissance. He teaches on the MA degree in the Centre for the Study of the Renaissance. He is happy to supervise work on any aspect of early modern literature.

Selected publications

• With Máté Vince, ed. The Correspondence of Isaac Casaubon, 1610-1614. 4 vols. Geneva: Droz, 2018 (forthcoming).
• Richard 'Dutch' Thomson (c. 1569-1613): The Life and Letters of a Renaissance Scholar. Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016.
• With Dirk van Miert, ed. The Correspondence of Joseph Scaliger (1540-1609). 8 vols. Geneva: Droz, 2012.
• Learning Greek in Western Europe, 1396-1529. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 2010.
• Latin Translation in the Renaissance. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004 (paperback 2009).

Contact hours

During the summer term 2018 my contact hours in weeks 1-3 are:

Tuesdays 10.30-11.30 am

Thursdays 10.30-11.30 am

In weeks 4-10 of the summer term, please email me to arrange a meeting.