Presentation

Born 8 June 1939. Brian Stock is Professor of History and Comparative Literature at the University of Toronto (Canada).

Education

Medical School, University of Toronto, Canada, Harvard University (A.B.), Trinity College, University of Cambridge (Ph.D.), VI Section, E.P.H.E.

Lectures

University of Cambridge, University of Toronto, several other universities (University of California, Berkeley, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris). Visiting Professor at the Collège de France, holding the annual International Chair (1997-1998).

Awards and honors

  • 1962 : Arnold Prize, Harvard University
  • 1962-1963 : Fiske Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge
  • 1963-1965 : Commonwealth Fellowship
  • 1966-1967 : Senior Rouse Ball Fellowship, Trinity College, Cambridge
  • 1969-1970 : Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
  • 1973-1974 : Senior Killam Fellow, Canada Council
  • 1981-1985 : Fellow, Connaught Foundation
  • 1985 : University Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara
  • 1987 : Lecturer, Collège de France
  • 1990 : Distinguished Scholar, University of Virginia
  • 1990 : Distinguished Professor of Medieval Studies, University of California, Berkeley
  • 1990 : William H. Morton Fellow, Dartmouth College
  • 1993 : Academic Advisory Board, Wissenschahskolleg zu Berlin
  • 1996 : Fellow, Bellagio Study Center, Rockefeller Foundation

Chair

Selected bibliography

Main publications

  • Self-knowledge in the Middle Ages and autobiographical literature, Lectures at the Collège de France

    Stock B., La connaissance de soi au Moyen Age et la littérature autobiographique, Conférences au Collège de France, 1998.

  • Augustine the Reader. Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation

    Stock B., Augustine the Reader. Meditation, Self-Knowledge, and the Ethics of Interpretation, Cambridge (Mass.)/London (U.K.), Harvard University Press.

  • Listening for the Text. On the Uses of the Past

    Stock B., Listening for the Text. On the Uses of the Past, Baltimore, 1990.

  • The Implications of Literacy. Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Fleventh and Twelfth Centuries

    Stock B., The Implications of Literacy. Written Language and Models of Interpretation in the Fleventh and Twelfth Centuries, Princeton, 1983.

  • Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century. A Study of Bernard Silvester

    Stock B., Myth and Science in the Twelfth Century. A Study of Bernard Silvester, Princeton, 1972.