Monty Python star, Terry Jones, awarded Honorary Degree
Author, actor and film director Terry Jones has been awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Glasgow, at a ceremony on Friday 21 June. In evening Terry also presented a lecture at the University of Glasgow entitled 'Chaucer in the 21st Century'. The former 'Monty Python's Flying Circus' star received a Doctorate of Letters (DLitt) for his contribution towards film and television and for his academic research around medieval history and literature. Terry's lecture presents his own research findings which address the images of the Canterbury pilgrims that appear in the Ellesmere manuscript of Chaucer's 'Canterbury Tales'. Focusing in particular on the knight, the monk and the friar, Terry will argue that these images were deliberately censored and will speculate on some of the motives and consequences for this. Terry Jones said: "I am proud to be awarded the title of Doctor of Letters from the University of Glasgow and would like to offer my thanks for the consideration." Professor Graham Caie, Vice-President, Royal Society of Edinburgh, Professorial Research Fellow, University of Glasgow, said: "The University of Glasgow is pleased to be able to award Terry Jones with an honorary degree of Doctor of Letters. Terry has achieved in so many fields what more than a dozen might reasonably expect to do in a lifetime: he is an academic, screenwriter, actor, film director, author, political commentator and comedian.
