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.[1][2][3][4] He specializes in the history and provenance of medieval English manuscripts and the early Tudor period.[5]
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.[6]
In August 2019, Carley became the first Canadian to receive the Bibliographical Society Gold Medal from the Bibliographical Society.[7]
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.
^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.
^Carley, James P. (2013) "The Libraries of Archbishops Whitgift and Bancroft." The Book Collector 62 (no 2) Summer: 208-228.