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Professor Jeremy Norcliffe Haslehurst Lawrance FBA (born 12 December 1952) is an English linguist and historian. Since 2006 he has been Professor of Spanish Golden Age Studies at the University of Nottingham. A Fellow of the British Academy since 2011,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Elections to the Fellowship: 2011: Professor Jeremy Lawrance )〕 he was President of the Association of Hispanists of Great Britain and Ireland from 2004 to 2006. ==Life== Born at Jinja, Uganda, near the source of the River Nile, Lawrance was the son of Jeremy Charles Dalton Lawrance, a Colonial Administrative Service officer, by his marriage to Elizabeth Ann Haslehurst.〔''Corona: The Journal of His Majesty's Colonial Service'' (Vol 5, H.M. Stationery Office, 1953), p. 76: "Lawrance. — On the 7th December, 1952, at Jinja, to Elizabeth Ann (nee Haslehurst), wife of Jeremy C. D. Lawrance, Colonial Administrative Service, Uganda — a son (Jeremy Norcliffe)〕 His father was also a writer on the Iteso people and their language〔Jeremy Charles Dalton Lawrance, ''The Iteso: Fifty Years of Change in a Nilo-Hamitic Tribe of Uganda'' (London, 1957); J. H. Hilder, Jeremy Charles Dalton Lawrance, ''An Introduction to the Ateso Language'' (1957); J. H. Hilders, J. C. D. Lawrance, ''An English-Ateso and Ateso-English vocabulary'' (1958)〕 and on African land tenure.〔J. C. D. Lawrance, ''Fragmentation of Agricultural Land in Uganda'' (1963); J. C. D. Lawrance, ''Report on Squatters on Farms in Swaziland'' (1964); J. C. D. Lawrance, ''Registration of Title in the Western State of Nigeria'' (1971); J. C. D. Lawrance, ''Land Tenure: Kenya'' (1978); J. C. D. Lawrance, ''Land Tenure, Swaziland'' (1978); J. C. D. Lawrance, ''Cadasters and Land Registration'' (1984)〕 Lawrance was educated at King's School, Canterbury, and Balliol College, Oxford, where he graduated MA in 1978 and DPhil in 1983. From 1978 until 1985 he was a Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. In 1985 he migrated to the University of Manchester, where he was a Lecturer in Spanish until 1993, then Professor of Spanish until 2006; since then he has been Professor of Spanish Golden Age Studies at Nottingham.〔'LAWRANCE, Prof. Jeremy Norcliffe Haslehurst', in ''Who's Who 2014'' (London: A. & C. Black, 2014), (online edition ) by Oxford University Press, December 2013, accessed 3 May 2014 (subscription site)〕 In 1975, Lawrance married Martha María de las Mercedes Camargo Álvarez, and they have one daughter.〔 His areas of academic interest are the impact of humanism and the revival of learning in Spain during the Renaissance and the Baroque era, the history of Spanish cultures in the Middle Ages and the early modern period, and editing unpublished manuscripts and early printed books.〔(Jeremy Lawrance profile ) at nottingham.ac.uk, accessed 4 May 2014〕 His most notable work includes a critical translation of Francisco de Vitoria's political writings, with Anthony Pagden, published by Cambridge University Press in 1991.〔Edward Craig, ed., ''Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Index'' (1998), p. 645〕 In ''Who's Who'', Lawrance states his recreations as "Searching for stone circles with daughter, entertaining friends, evading capture by elephants, loud music, geriatric football, Bologna."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jeremy Lawrance」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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