Nicholas Everett is an associate professor of history and religion at the University of Toronto. He is one of the first Canadians to receive the highly competitive New Directions Fellowship from the Mellon Foundation to pursue cross-disciplinary research. His research interests include history of medicine and science, with a special interest in pharmacology and toxicology. Other areas of research include early medieval Italian history, history of literacy and education in early medieval Europe, hagiography and saints cults in Italy, and ancient and medieval medicine.
Selected publications
“Paulinus of Aquileia’s Sponsio Episcoporum, written oaths, and clerical discipline in Carolingian Italy”, in W. Robins (ed) The Textual Cultures of Medieval Italy (U of T Press, forthcoming).
The Alphabet of Galen. Pharmacy from Antiquity to the Middle Ages (U of T Press, forthcoming)
“Literacy from Late Antiquity to the early Middle Ages”, in D. Olson and N. Torrance eds., Cambridge Handbook of Literacy (Cambridge, 2009), pp. 362-385
The Interrogationes de littera et de singulis causis: an early medieval school text,” Journal of Medieval Latin 16 (2006), 227-275
“Narrating the Life of Eusebius of Vercelli”, in R. Balzaretti and E. Tyler (eds), Narrative and History in the Early Medieval West (Turnhout 2006), pp.133-164
Department of History
Centre for Medieval Studies
BA (Griffith), BA Hons (QLD), PhD (Cambridge)
Sidney Smith Building Room 3113
tel: (416) 946-0175
email: n.everett@utoronto.ca