Morton W. Bloomfield
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Morton W. Bloomfield was an American Medievalist. He was the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of English at Harvard University. He is best known for his scholarly work, teaching and mentoring on Medieval literature, language, as well as contributions to intellectual history, literary criticism and theory. He also was one of the founders of the first U.S. national center for the humanities, the National Humanities Center.
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- What Is Literary Theory (1973) (192)
- The Seven Deadly Sins: An Introduction to the History of a Religious Concept, with Special Reference to Medieval English Literature (1954) (110)
- The seven deadly sins (1952) (76)
- Piers Plowman as a fourteenth-century apocalypse (1963) (51)
- Allegory, Myth, and Symbol (1981) (42)
- A Linguistic Introduction to the History of English (1964) (38)
- The Wisdom of Poetry: Essays in Early English Literature in Honor of Morton W. Bloomfield (1982) (33)
- The Interpretation of narrative : theory and practice (1970) (32)
- A Grammatical Approach to Personification Allegory (1963) (32)
- 11. Canadian English and Its Relation to Eighteenth-Century American Speech (1970) (31)
- Continuities and Discontinuities (1979) (29)
- Distance and Predestination in Troilus and Criseyde (1957) (28)
- Language As a Human Problem (1975) (27)
- Beowulf and Christian Allegory: An Interpretation of Unferth (1951) (23)
- Allegory as Interpretation (1972) (23)
- The Penetration of Joachism into Northern Europe (1954) (22)
- Joachim of Flora: A Critical Survey of his Canon, Teachings, Sources, Biography and Influence (1957) (19)
- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Appraisal (1961) (19)
- The Role of the Poet in Early Societies (1992) (17)
- A Critical History of Old English Literature. Stanley B. Greenfield (1966) (14)
- Stylistics and the Theory of Literature (1976) (13)
- Essays and Explorations: Studies in Ideas, Language, and Literature (1970) (12)
- Incipits of Latin works on the virtues and vices, 1100-1500 A.D. : including a section of incipits of works on the Pater noster (1979) (12)
- Symbolism in Medieval Literature (1958) (12)
- The Man of Law's Tale: A Tragedy of Victimization and a Christian Comedy (1972) (11)
- Beowulf, Byrhtnoth, and the Judgment of God: Trial by Combat in Anglo-Saxon England (1969) (11)
- Authenticating Realism and the Realism of Chaucer (1964) (9)
- Final Root-Forming Morphemes (1953) (9)
- Patristics and Old English Literature: Notes on Some Poems (1962) (9)
- An introduction to the language of poetry (1968) (9)
- The Form of Deor (1964) (8)
- The Origin of the Concept of the Seven Cardinal Sins (1941) (8)
- The Problem of Fact and Value in the Teaching of English (1953) (8)
- A Manual of the Writings in Middle English, 1050-1500. Albert E. Hartung , Florence H. Ridley , Rossell Hope Robbins (1976) (7)
- In Search of Literary Theory (1973) (7)
- A Preliminary List of Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, Mainly of the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Centuries (1955) (6)
- Piers Plowman: The C-Text and Its Poet (1951) (6)
- The Man of Law's Tale (1973) (6)
- A Dictionary of Linguistic Terminology (1955) (5)
- The Owl and the Nightingale: The Poem and Its Critics. Kathryn Hume (1977) (5)
- The Canterbury Tales as Framed Narratives (1983) (5)
- Curiosity and Pilgrimage: The Literature of Discovery in Fourteenth-Century England. Christina K. Zacher (1978) (5)
- Piers Plowman: The A Version, Will's Visions of Piers Plowman and Do-Well, An Edition in the Form of Trinity College Cambridge MS R.314 Corrected from Other Manuscripts, with Variant Readings. George Kane (1961) (4)
- PIERS PLOWMAN AND THE THREE GRADES OF CHASTITY (1958) (4)
- 2. Chaucer's Sense of History (1970) (4)
- "Doom is Dark and Deeper than Any Sea-Dingle" (1948) (4)
- New Criticism and Deconstructive Criticism, Or What's New? in Studies in Historical Change. (1986) (3)
- 6. Episodic Motivation and Marvels in Epic and Romance (1970) (3)
- Supplement to the Index of Middle English Verse, Carleton Brown and Rossell Hope Robbins. Rossell Hope Robbins , John L. Cutler (1967) (3)
- The Magic of In Principio (1955) (3)
- Allegory Unveiled@@@Allegory, Myth, and Symbol@@@Allegory and Representation (1983) (3)
- Chaucer and Middle English Studies in Honour of Rossell Hope Robbins. Beryl Rowland (1976) (3)
- Present State of Piers Plowman Studies (1939) (2)
- Early Epic Scenery: Homer, Virgil and the Medieval Legacy. Theodore M. Anderson (1978) (2)
- Trollope's Use of Canadian History in "Phineas Finn" (1867-1869) (1950) (2)
- Was William Langland a Benedictine Monk (1943) (2)
- Some Reflections on the Medieval Idea of Perfection (1957) (2)
- Elitism in the Humanities. (1974) (2)
- FOURTEENTH-CENTURY ENGLAND: REALISM AND RATIONALISM IN WYCLIF AND CHAUCER (1973) (2)
- The Two Cognitive Dimensions of the Humanities. (1970) (2)
- The Source of Boccaccio's Filostrato III, 74-79 and Its Bearing on the MS Tradition of Lucretius, De rerum natura (1952) (2)
- The Discarded Image: An Introduction to Medieval and Renaissance Literature. C. S. Lewis (1965) (1)
- Form and idea (1961) (1)
- II RELIGION AND THE TEACHING OF LITERATURE (1958) (1)
- Dante's "Paradiso" and the Limitations of Modern Criticism: A Study of Style and Poetic Theory. Robin Kirkpatrick (1980) (1)
- A Source of Prudentius' Psychomachia (1943) (1)
- The Eighth Sphere: A Note on Chaucer's "Troilus and Criseyde", V, 1809 (1958) (1)
- 17. D. W. Robertson and Bernard F. Huppé, Piers Plowman and Scriptural Tradition (Princeton, 1951) (1970) (1)
- D. H. Green, Irony in the Medieval Romance . London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1979. Pp. x, 431. $62.50. (1982) (1)
- Great plays, Sophocles to Albee (1975) (1)
- The Merveilleux in Chrétien de Troyes's Romances. Lucienne Carasso-BulowChrétien's Jewish Grail: A New Investigation of the Imagery and Significance of Chrétien de Troyes's Grail Episode Based upon Medieval Hebraic Sources. Eugene J. Weinraub (1978) (1)
- Beryl Rowland, ed., Chaucer and Middle English Studies in Honour of Rossell Hope Robbins . Kent, Ohio: Kent State University Press, 1974. Pp. 424; frontispiece portrait. $15.00 (1976) (1)
- The Divine Comedy. Vol. I: Inferno. Dante Alighieri , Charles S. SingletonDante's Inferno. Dante Alighieri , Mark Musa (1973) (1)
- 4. Understanding Old English Poetry (1970) (1)
- W. Lourdaux and D. Verhelst, eds., The Bible and Medieval Culture. (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series I, Studia VII.) Louvain: Louvain University Press, 1979. Paper. Pp. viii, 286. BFr 980. (1980) (1)
- Speculative Grammars of the Middle Ages: The Doctrine "Partes orationis" of the Modistae. G. L. Bursill-HallGrammatica speculativa. Thomas of Erfurt , G. L. Bursill-Hall (1974) (1)
- The Modern Revival of Myth: Its Eighteenth-Century Origins (1981) (0)
- J. A. Burrow, Ricardian Poetry: Chaucer, Gower, Langland and the Gawain Poet . New Haven, Connecticut. Yale University Press, 1971. Pp. x, 165. $5.75. (1973) (0)
- Essays in Honour of Anton Charles Pegis. J. Reginald O'Donnell (1976) (0)
- “The Scale of Perfection” and the English Mystical Tradition (1967) (0)
- Piers Plowman and Scriptural Tradition. Bernard F. Huppé , D. W. Robertson, Jr. (1952) (0)
- Professional Notes and Comment (1975) (0)
- The Structure of Beowulf. Kenneth Sisam (1966) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1980) (0)
- 18. Sanford Β. Meech, Design in Chaucer's "Troilus" (Syracuse, 1959) (1970) (0)
- Closing the Loopholes (1975) (0)
- Laments for the Dead in Medieval Narrative. Velma Bourgeois Richmon (1968) (0)
- Classical and Medieval Literary Criticism: Translations and Interpretations. Alex Preminger , O. B. Hardison, Jr. , Kevin Kerrane (1976) (0)
- Books Known to the English, 597-1066. J. D. A. Ogilvy (1968) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1981) (0)
- Jewish Philosophical Polemics against Christianity in the Middle Ages. Daniel J. Lasker (1979) (0)
- Book Review:English Religious Drama of the Middle Ages Hardin Craig (1956) (0)
- 15. Kenneth Sisam, The Structure of Beowulf (New York and Oxford, 1965) (1970) (0)
- Leo Spitzer, Classical and Christian Ideas of World Harmony: Prolegomena to an Interpretation of the Word ‘Stimmung.’ Edited by Anna Granville Hatcher. Preface by René Wellek. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Press, 1963. Pp. xvi, 232. $5.50. (1964) (0)
- Kathi Meyer-Baer, Music of the Spheres and the Dance of Death: Studies in Musical Iconology . Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1970. Pp. xxviii, 376; 174 illustrations. $13.50. (1971) (0)
- Form and idea : thirty essays for college study (1953) (0)
- A. K. Clarke and P. M. Giles, eds., The Commentary of Geoffrey of Vitry on Claudian “De Raptu Proserpinae.” (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, VII.) Leiden and Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1973. Pp. xii, 140; 9 facsimile plates. (1976) (0)
- G. Verbeke and D. Verhelst, eds., Aquinas and Problems of His Time . (Mediaevalia Lovaniensia, Series I, Studia V.) Leuven: University Press; The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, 1976. Paper. Pp. viii, 229. Bfr 900. (1978) (0)
- Edmund Colledge, O.S.A., and James Walsh, S.J., eds., A Book of Showings to the Anchoress Julian of Norwich . (Studies and Texts, 35.) Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1978. Paper. 2 vols. Pp. viii, 789. $38. (1980) (0)
- The sixtieth anniversary memorial lectures, Seijo-Gakuen, Seijo University (1978) (0)
- Studies in Medieval Jewish Philosophy. Israel Efros (1976) (0)
- 16. Nevill Coghill, The Pardon of Piers Plowman (Proceedings of the British Academy, 1945) (1970) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1985) (0)
- M. B. Salu, trans., The Ancrene Riwle (The Corpus MS: Ancrene Wisse) . Introduction by Dom Gerard Sitwell, O.S.B. Preface by J. R. R. Tolkien. Notre Dame, Indiana: University of Notre Dame Press. Paper. Pp. xxvii, 196. $2.75. (1958) (0)
- 7. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: An Appraisal (1961) (1970) (0)
- George A. Kennedy, Classical Rhetoric and Its Christian and Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1980. Pp. xii, 291. $18 (cloth); $9 (paper). (1981) (0)
- Anne Hudson, ed., Selections from English Wycliffite Writings . With Introduction, Notes and Glossary. London and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1978. Pp. xii, 234. $22.95. (1979) (0)
- 5. Symbolism in Medieval Lite (1970) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1982) (0)
- Piers Plowman: An Introduction. Elizabeth Salter (1964) (0)
- Edward Vasta, The Spiritual Basis of Piers Plowman . (Studies in English Literature, XVIII.) London, The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1965. Pp. 143. (1967) (0)
- Arthur Hyman, ed., Essays in Medieval Jewish and Islamic Philosophy: Studies from the Publications of the American Academy for Jewish Research . New York: Ktav, 1977. Pp. liv, 427. $25. (1979) (0)
- Vladimir R. Rossman, Perspectives of Irony in Medieval French Literature . (De proprietatibus litterarum, Series maior, 35.) The Hague, Paris: Mouton, 1975. Paper. Pp. 200. Glds 39. (1978) (0)
- Adolf Katzenellenbogen, Allegories of the Virtues and Vices in Mediaeval Art from Early Christian Times to the Thirteenth Century , translated by Alan J. P. Crick. London: The Warburg Institute, 1939. (1941) (0)
- David Burr, The Persecution of Peter Olivi . (Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, New Series, 66, part 5.) Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1976. Paper. Pp. 98. $6. (1978) (0)
- David L. Jeffrey, ed., By Things Seen: Reference and Recognition in Medieval Thought . Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 1979. Pp. xvi, 270; 16 plates. (1980) (0)
- 'Early English'@@@Early English, a Study of Old and Middle English (1958) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1972) (0)
- The Mirror of Language: A Study in the Medieval Theory of Knowledge. Marcia L. Colish (1970) (0)
- Ten plays : an introduction to drama (1951) (0)
- Judson Boyce Allen, The Friar as Critic: Literary Attitudes in the Later Middle Ages . Nashville, Tennessee: Vanderbilt University Press, 1971. Pp. xii, 176. $11.50. (1973) (0)
- Paul Zumthor, Langue, texte, énigme . (Collection Poétique.) Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1975. Paper, Pp. 270. (1977) (0)
- Peter Dronke, Fabula. Explorations into the Uses of Myth in Medieval Platonism . (Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 9). Leiden and Cologne: E. J. Brill, 1974. Pp. xxi, 200; 3 plates. Glds 58. (1977) (0)
- The Articulate Citizen and the English Renaissance. Arthur B. Ferguson (1966) (0)
- 14. The Syncategorematic in Poetry: From Semantics to Syntactics (1970) (0)
- A Diachronic Approach to Lexical Number: Middle and Modern English (1957) (0)
- The "Figurae" of Joachim of Fiore. Marjorie Reeves , Beatrice Hirsch-Reich (1975) (0)
- A Check-List of Middle English Prose Writings of Spiritual Guidance. P. S. Jolliffe (1976) (0)
- Richard H. and Mary A. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia, and Sermons: Studies on the “Manipulus florum” of Thomas of Ireland . (Studies and Texts, 47.) Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1979. Paper. Pp. xii, 476; 6 plates. $24. (1981) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Mediaeval Academy of America (1975) (0)
- Crampton (Georgia Ronan). The Condition of Creatures: Suffering and Action in Chaucer and Spenser (1981) (0)
- Gersonides, The Wars of the Lord, Treatise Three: On God's Knowledge . Translation and commentary by Norbert Max Samuelson. (Mediaeval Studies in Translation, 19.) Toronto: Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies, 1977. Paper. Pp. xii, 323. $15. (1979) (0)
- The Pardon of Piers Plowman. Nevill Coghill (1947) (0)
- David C. Fowler, Piers the Plowman: Literary Relations of the A and B Texts . Seattle, Washington: University of Washington Press, 1961. Pp. xiv, 260. $5.75. (1962) (0)
- THE ALLEGORIES OF "DOBEST" ("PIERS PLOWMAN" B XIX-XX) (1981) (0)
- Do Literary Studies Have an Ideology? (1971) (0)
- Minnie Cate Morrell, A Manual of Old English Biblical Materials . Knoxville, Tennessee: The University of Tennessee Press, 1965. Pp. xii, 220. $7.50. (1966) (0)
- Memoirs of Fellows and Corresponding Fellows of the Medieval Academy of America (1987) (0)
- Piers Plowman, an Essay in Criticism. John Lawlor (1963) (0)
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