Julia Boffey (née Waddleton; 1952 or 1953 – 11 September 2026) was an English academic who was Professor of Medieval Studies at Queen Mary University of London.
Life and work Boffey studied as an undergraduate at Newnham College, Cambridge, and completed a D.Phil. thesis on medieval verse manuscripts at the Centre for Medieval Studies at York. She was the author of Manuscript and Print in London c.1475 - 1530 (2012) and Manuscripts of English Courtly Love Lyrics in the Later Middle Ages (1985), and editor of Fifteenth-century English Dream Visions: an Anthology (2003). She is also the co-editor (with A. S. G. Edwards) of the New Index of Middle English Verse and A Companion to Fifteenth-Century English Poetry, as well as co-editor with Christiania Whitehead of Middle English Lyrics: New Readings of Short Poems (2018), with V. Davis of Recording Medieval Lives: Proceedings of the 2005 Harlaxton Symposium, and with Pamela King of London and Europe in the Later Middle Ages. She was a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London.
Boffey died on 11 September 2026, aged 73.
References
External links Julia Boffey: Faculty page at Queen Mary University of London