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Alexander Andrée is an assistant professor of Palaeography and Medieval Latin. He received his BA and MA in Latin Philology from Lund University and his PhD from Stockholm University in Sweden. He has studied the medieval auxiliary sciences (palaeography, codicology, diplomatics, textual criticism and editorial technique) at the Vatican Library in Rome, and held research fellowships at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in Toronto and Harris Manchester College, Oxford. His research is primarily focussed on Medieval Latin philology and the manuscript culture of the high Middle Ages; on the teaching and literature of the schools in the early twelfth century; on medieval biblical exegesis, especially the Glossa ordinaria. He also works on fifteenth-century academic sermons and disputations, and is one of the founding members of the international editorial research programme Ars edendi: A Laboratory of Editorial Philology. His teaching interests include palaeography, codicology, Medieval Latin language and literature, textual criticism, the history and study of the Bible in the Middle Ages. Among his publications are:

‘From propheta plangens to rhetor divinus: Towards an Understanding of the Rhetorical Hermeneutics of Gilbert the Universal in his Gloss on Lamentations’, Sapientia et Eloquentia: Meaning and Function in Liturgical Poetry, Music, Drama, and Biblical Commentary in the Middle Ages, ed. by Nicolas Bell and Gunilla Iversen, Disputatio, 11 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009), pp. 115-46

‘Christopherus Laurentii Wyss de Holmis’, Medieval Nordic Literature in Latin: A Handbook of Authors and Anonymous Works (c. 1100–1530), ed. by S. Borgehammar, K. Friis-Jensen & L. B. Mortensen, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin (Turnhout: Brepols, 2009)

‘The Glossa ordinaria on the Gospel of John: A Preliminary Survey of the Manuscripts with a Presentation of the Text and its Sources’, Revue bénédictine, 118 (2008), 109-34 and 289-333

‘On the Fortune of John Scot’s Homilia and Commentarius: The Glossa ordinaria and the Verbum substantiale’, appendix chapter for Iohannis Scoti Commentarius in euangelium Iohannis et Homilia in prologum euangelii Iohannis, ed. by Édouard Jeauneau, CCCM, 166 (Brepols, 2008), pp. 139-50

‘The Rhetorical Hermeneutics of Gilbert the Universal in his Gloss on Lamentations’, Journal of Medieval Latin, 17 (2007), 143-58

‘“Et factum est”: The Commentary to the Prologue to the Book of Lamentations in the Manuscript Paris, BnF, lat. 2578’, Revue bénédictine, 117 (2007), pp. 129–53

Gilbertus Universalis: Glossa ordinaria in Lamentationes Ieremie prophete. Prothemata et Liber I. A Critical Edition with an Introduction and a Translation, Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Studia Latina Stockholmiensia, 52 (Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell International, 2005)—available on the web through: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:su:diva-531