Honours
Deyermond became a fellow of the British Academy in 1988. In June 2009 he was elected corresponding Fellow of the Real Academia Española, a distinction granted very few foreign academics.
Honours were heaped upon him by scholarly societies worldwide. When he retired in 1997, two festschrifts were issued in his honour (the first such issue in his honour was compiled by American scholars in 1986). He fulfilled several visiting professorships and gave hundreds of lectures and conference papers in over a dozen countries.
Deyermond received honorary degrees from the universities of Oxford, Valencia, and Georgetown. He was a Fellow of the British Academy and became one of the small number of corresponding members of the Real Academia Española in 2009. He was elected a Corresponding Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America in 1979. In 1994 he was awarded the Nebrija Prize, given each year by the University of Salamanca to the non-Spanish scholar who has contributed most to the understanding of Spanish culture and the Spanish language.
A reflection of his standing in the world of Hispanism and medieval studies was his presidency of the Asociación Internacional de Hispanistas (1992–95; honorary life president since 1995) and of the International Courtly Literature Society (1983). In 1985 he was made a socio de honor of the Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval and, since 1999, an honorary fellow of Queen Mary, University of London.
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