{{Short description|Canadian historian}} {{about||the American lawyer, educator, and politician|James A. Carley}} {{Infobox person | name = James Carley | birth_name = <!-- only use if different from name --> | birth_date = <!-- {{Birth date and age|YYYY|MM|DD}} for living people supply only the year with {{Birth year and age|YYYY}} unless the exact date is already widely published, as per WP:DOB. For people who have died, use {{Birth date|YYYY|MM|DD}}. --> | birth_place = James P. Carley | death_date = <!-- {{Death date and age|YYYY|MM|DD|YYYY|MM|DD}} (DEATH date then BIRTH date) --> | death_place = | other_names = | occupation = historian of English history | years_active = | known_for = | notable_works = }}
'''James P. Carley''' is a Canadian historian of English history and bibliographer, currently a Distinguished Research Professor at York University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://people.laps.yorku.ca/people.nsf/researcherprofile-print?readform&shortname=jcarley |title=James P Carley |publisher=yorku.ca |accessdate=February 11, 2017 |archive-date=September 14, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180914182211/http://people.laps.yorku.ca/people.nsf/researcherprofile-print?readform&shortname=jcarley |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=http://vpap.info.yorku.ca/awards-and-recognition/distinguished-research-professors/ |title=Distinguished Research Professors |publisher=yorku.ca |accessdate=February 11, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.worldcat.org/identities/lccn-n78043575/ |title=Carley, James P. |publisher=worldcat.org |accessdate=February 11, 2017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/retired-york-university-professor-first-canadian-to-head-one-of-londons-liveries/article33453007/ |title=Retired York University professor first Canadian to head a London livery |date=December 29, 2016 |publisher=theglobeandmail.com |accessdate=February 11, 2017}}</ref> He specializes in the history and provenance of medieval English manuscripts and the early Tudor period.<ref>Carley, James P. 2018. ''Books and Bookmen in Early Modern Britain : Essays Presented to James P. Carley.'' Edited by James M. W. Willoughby and Jeremy Catto. Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. </ref>
== Education and Career == Carley received his B.A. in English from the University of Victoria, his M.A. in English from Dalhousie University, and his PhD in Medieval Studies from the University of Toronto.
He has written about the history of Glastonbury Abbey, Tudor antiquary John Leland, sixteenth-century book culture, the foundation and early history of Lambeth Palace Library, as well as on the Arthurian legends, and the modern British novelist Lawrence Durrell.
Carley held the Sandars Readership in Bibliography at Cambridge University in 2010-2011 lecturing on "From private hoard to public repository: archbishops John Whitgift and Richard Bancroft as founders of Lambeth Palace Library." The lecture was expanded upon and published in ''The Book Collector'' in 2013.<ref>Carley, James P. (2013) "The Libraries of Archbishops Whitgift and Bancroft." ''The Book Collector'' 62 (no 2) Summer: 208-228.</ref>
In August 2019, Carley became the first Canadian to receive the Bibliographical Society Gold Medal from the Bibliographical Society.<ref>{{cite web |title=York University professor first Canadian to receive Bibliographical Society Gold Medal |url=https://yfile.news.yorku.ca/2019/08/14/york-university-professor-first-canadian-to-receive-bibliographical-society-gold-medal/ |website=yfile.news.yorku.ca |accessdate=August 19, 2019 |date=August 14, 2019}}</ref>
==Selected publications== *Carley, James P., and Charles Burnett, eds. 2023. ''Hebraism in Sixteenth-Century England: Robert and Thomas Wakefield.'' Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies. *Carley, James P. 2004. ''The Books of King Henry VIII and His Wives.'' London: British Library. *Carley, James P. 2001. ''Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian Tradition''. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer. *Carley, James P. 1989. “John Leland and the Contents of English Pre-Dissolution Libraries: Lincolnshire.” ''Transactions of the Cambridge Bibliographical Society'' 9 (4): 330–57.
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