Paul Binski


Paul Binski FSA FBA is a British art historian and Emeritus Professor of the History of Medieval Art at the University of Cambridge.

Early life and education

Binski was born to Eugene and Pamela Binski in 1956. He was educated at Harrow School before going up to Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge.

Academic career

Binski was a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge until 1987 when he went to America to take up a Getty Postdoctoral award which he held at Princeton University, before moving to Yale University as an assistant professor.  In 1991, he returned to the UK to work at Manchester University as a lecturer, before moving back to Cambridge in 1995.  He was Slade Professor of Fine Art at the University of Oxford between 2006 and 2007.
Binski was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 2007. He is also a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries, London.
Binski specialises in Western European medieval art and architecture and art theory. In August 2021 he was honoured by the publication of a festschrift which includes contributions from many of his international colleagues and students.

As editor

  • Age of Chivalry: Art in Plantagenet England, 1200-1400
  • New offerings, ancient treasures. Studies in medieval art for George Henderson
  • The Westminster Retable: History, Technique, Conservation
  • ''Patrons and Professionals in the Middle Ages: Proceedings of the 2010 Harlaxton Symposium''