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I received my Ph.D. from Cornell University in 1969, completing my dissertation under the direction of Robert E. Kaske.
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My scholarship explores the cultural contexts of medieval vernacular
literature:
- the assimilation of Christian Scriptures
in Old English ("`Homiletic Fragment II' and the Epistle to the Ephesians,"
Traditio 25 [1969], 358-63),
- the assimilation of Latin classics ("The Aeneas-Dido Allusion in Chre'tien's Erec et Enide," Comparative Literature 22 [1970], 237-53),
- Old English appropriation
of hagiography ("Figural Narrative in Cynewulf's Juliana," Anglo-Saxon
England 4 [Cambridge University Press, 1975], pp. 37-55),
- the scope
and nature of Anglo-Saxon Latin learning ("King Alfred's Boethius and its
Latin Sources: A Reconsideration," Anglo-Saxon England 11 [Cambridge
University Press, 1983], pp. 157-98).
- In the latter and in other
work, the medieval transmission and interpretation of Boethius has been
a particular interest (articles on "Boethius" and "Pseudo Boethius" in
Sources of Anglo-Saxon Literary Culture, ed. Frederick M. Biggs,
Thomas D. Hill, Paul E. Szarmach, and in Garland's Medieval England:
An Encyclopedia).
- Most recently I have returned to 14th Century
England and William Langland. My dissertation is represented in a
long 1972 article, "Piers Plowman B, Passus IX-XII: Elements in the
Design of the Inward Journey," Traditio 28, 211-80. I recently completed
William Langland Revisited which attempts to refocus attention on
the particular moral context in which I believe the poem was written (New York: Simon
& Schuster Macmillan; London: Prentice Hall, 1997). And in the Spring of 2001 Athlone Press published my Piers Plowman: Concordance. A Lemmatized analysis of the English vocabulary of the A, B and C versions as presented in the Athlone editions, with supplementary concordances of the Latin and French macaronics (London: Athlone, 2001).
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Graduate Medieval Courses Taught: Introduction to Old English (237), Early Middle
English (251a), 14th Century English / Alliterative Revival (251b), Chaucer
(252), Seminars on Middle English, William Langland, Intellectual Backgrounds
for the Study of Medieval Literature
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