From Who’s Who 2017
Decorations: PhD, LittD; FBA 1994
Occupation: Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, since 1990
Birth details: s of Rae H. Lapidge and Catherine Mary Lapidge (née Carruthers)
Education: Univ. of Calgary (BA 1962); Univ. of Alberta (MA 1965); Univ. of Toronto (PhD 1971); LittD Cantab 1988
Career: Cambridge University: Lectr, 1974–88; Reader in Insular Latin Literature, 1988–91; Elrington and Bosworth Prof. of Anglo-Saxon, 1991–98; Notre Dame Prof. of English, Univ. of Notre Dame, Indiana, 1999–2004. Corresponding Fellow: Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1997; Accad. dei Lincei, 2001. Hon. DLitt Toronto, 2011
Publications: Aldhelm: the prose works, 1979; Alfred the Great, 1983; Aldhelm: the poetic works, 1985; A Bibliography of Celtic Latin Literature 400–1200, 1985; Wulfstan of Winchester: the life of St Ethelwold, 1991; Anglo-Saxon Litanies of the Saints, 1991; Anglo-Latin Literature 900–1066, 1993; Biblical Commentaries from the Canterbury School of Theodore and Hadrian, 1994; Archbishop Theodore, 1995; Byrhtferth’s Enchiridion, 1995; Anglo-Latin Literature 600–899, 1996; The Cult of St Swithun, 2003; The Anglo-Saxon Library, 2006; Beda: storia degli Inglesi, vol. 1, 2008, vol. 2, 2010; Byrhtferth of Ramsey: the lives of St Oswald and St Ecgwine, 2009; (with H. Gneuss) Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts, 2014; articles in learned jls
Recreations: hill-walking