The Morton W. Bloomfield Lectures, 1989-2005

by Daniel Donoghue (Editor), James Simpson (Editor), Nicholas Watson (Editor)

Overview

Shortly after Morton Bloomfield's death in 1987, a number of his friends and colleagues sought a way to honor and preserve his memory. The result was a lecture of more than ordinary interest and more than ordinary prominence, signified by the fact that each would be published for individual circulation and then would be collected, as they are here, to appear in print for a wider audience. The lectures contained here reflect Morton Bloomfield's own wide and varied interests: literature, the history of philosophy, language studies, and Judaic studies. Morton W. Bloomfield's broad learning and personal popularity were unrivaled among his fellow medievalists, and this volume demonstrates the outpouring of those close to him and whom he influenced. The lectures contained within deal with a wide variety of topics, all a fitting tribute to a scholar who touched so many lives.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580441469
Publisher:	Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date:	05/01/2010
Series:	Festschriften, Occasional Papers, and Lectures , #18
Pages:	290
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Daniel Donoghue is a Professor of English at Harvard University specializing in Old English literature. James Simpson is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University focusing on late medieval and early modern Western Literature. Nicholas Watson is a Professor of English at Harvard University with research interests in medieval English literature, theology, and intellectual history.

Table of Contents

Introduction, Larry Benson Morton Wilfred Bloomfield (May 19, 1913-April 14, 1987) by Fred C. Robinson Poets and the Poetics of Sin 1989 by George Kane Langland and Allegory 1991 by Jill Mann Monastic Preaching in the Age of Chaucer 1993 by Siegfried Wenzel "Love and Do What You Will": The Medieval History of an Augustinian Precept 1996 by Giles Constable Piers Plowman, the Monsters, and the Critics: Some Embarrassments of Literary History 1998 by Anne Middleton "The Place of the Apocalyptic View of History in the Later Middle Ages" and the Legacy of Morton Bloomfield 1999 by Kathryn Kerby-Fulton Jewish Sages and German Schoolmen 1999 by Bernard Mc Ginn Imagining and Imaging the End: Universal and Individual Eschatology in Two Carthusian Illustrated Manuscripts 1999 by Richard K. Emmerson William Langland, William Blake, and the Poetry of Hope 2001 by Derek Pearsall Who Was the Maiden on the Moor? 2004 by Richard Firth Green Marketing Odin's Mead in a Strange Land 2005 by Roberta Frank Bibliography of Works by Morton W. Bloomfield, 1981-89 Notes on Contributors