Professor David Hook
David Hook completed his Oxford DPhil thesis under the supervision of Professor Sir Peter Russell. He successively held a personal chair in Medieval Spanish Studies at King's College London, then the chair of Hispanic Studies at Bristol until 2010. Since February 2011 he has been Associate Director of Dr Juan-Carlos Conde's Magdalen Medieval Iberian Studies Seminar (for which he edits the 'Manuscript News' section of its website); he has been a Faculty Research Fellow at Oxford since June 2011.
Address: (postal:) Faculty of Medieval & Modern Languages, University of Oxford, 41 Wellington Square, Oxford OX1 2JF.
Email: davidhook@hotmail.com (for rapid replies); david.hook@mod-langs.ox.ac.uk
Research
Medieval Hispanic studies, with particular emphasis on literary and manuscript studies and the history of the book. Publications include articles on aspects of the texts and manuscripts of epic, balladry, chronicles, popular religious legends and other works, and the manuscript collector Sir Thomas Phillipps and his circle.
Teaching
Consultation on manuscript and medieval studies for research students, by prior arrangement through supervisors.
Publications
Among recent research publications are:
'Reflections on some medieval Spanish manifestations of the heroic catalogue and other enumerative passages', in press in Publications of MIMSS (Magdalen Iberian Medieval Studies Seminar).
'Advancing on Alora', in press.
The Constitución política de la monarquía española (1812). Text, Translation, and Impact of the Constitution of Cadiz. A Catalogue of the Bicentenary Exhibition at the Taylor Institution, Oxford (9 March - 5 April 2012), Hispanic Catalogues Series, 1 (Westbury on Trym: David Hook, 2012), [ii] + 22 pp. ISBN 978-0-9517564-2-3.
'A Repeated Passage in a Manuscript Copy of the Crónica de Enrique IV of Diego Enríquez del Castillo (MS C-3)', Codicological Notes, CN.02112011.001, http://mimss-codicological-notes.blogspot.com/ (2011).
'Problemas ético-ecdóticos de un manuscrito medieval', in Actas del XIII Congreso Internacional Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval, ed. J.M. Fradejas Rueda et al., 2 vols (Valladolid: Ayuntamiento, Universidad, & AHLM, 2010), II, 997-1011.
(editor) The Spain of the Catholic Monarchs, Papers from the Quincentenary Conference (Bristol, 2004) (Bristol: HiPLAM, 2008).
'An Accidental Americanist: Sir Thomas Phillipps and Juan de Tovar's Historia de los indios mexicanos (Bibliotheca Phillippica, MS 8187)', http://hdl.handle.net/1983/992 (2007, Bristol Repository of Scholarly Eprints).
(editor) Manuscripts, Texts, and Transmission from Isidore to the Enlightenment.Papers from the Bristol Colloquium on Hispanic Texts and Manuscripts (Bristol: HiPLAM, 2006).
'Bibliographical Annotation in an XVIIth-century Spanish University Context: Evidence for Unrecorded Editions, 1488-1674', Bulletin of Spanish Studies, LXXXIII (2006), 911-924.
(editor) From Orosius to the 'Historia Silense': Four Essays on Late Antique and Early Medieval Historiography of the Iberian Peninsula (Bristol: HiPLAM, 2005).
'Fuentes para la reconstrucción de una comunidad: problemas y posibilidades de la documentación ayamontina del s. XVI. El caso del librero Alfonso Fernández', in VI Jornadas de Historia de Ayamonte, ed. Enrique R. Arroyo Berrones (Ayamonte: Patronato Municipal de Cultura, 2002), 101-123.
(editor) Text & Manuscript in Medieval Spain. Papers from the King's College Colloquium (London: King's College London Department of Spanish & Spanish-American Studies, 2000).
The Destruction of Jerusalem. Catalan and Castilian Texts, King's College London Medieval Studies, vol. XVI (London: King's College London Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, 2000).