Nigel of Longchamp, Speculum Stultorum

Jill Mann (BA Oxford, PhD Cambridge) was a Research Fellow at Clare Hall, Cambridge, and began her teaching career in 1971 at the University of Kent at Canterbury. In 1972 she took up a Fellowship at Girton College, Cambridge, where she subsequently became an Assistant Lecturer, Lecturer, and finally Professor of Medieval and Renaissance English. In 1999 she moved to an endowed chair at the University of Notre Dame, Indiana. She retired in 2004. She is a Fellow of the British Academy, and an Honorary Fellow of St Anne's College, Oxford. She has published extensively on Chaucer and other Middle English authors, on medieval Latin literature, and on medieval French and Italian.