Alastair Minnis

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Alastair Minnis is affiliated with the following schools: Yale University, Queen's University at Kingston

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According to Wikipedia, Alastair J. Minnis is a Northern Irish literary critic and historian of ideas who has written extensively about medieval literature, and contributed substantially to the study of late-medieval theology and philosophy. Having gained a first-class B.A. degree at the Queen's University of Belfast, he matriculated at Keble College, Oxford as a visiting graduate student, where he completed work on his Belfast Ph.D. , having been mentored by M.B. Parkes and Beryl Smalley. Following appointments at the Queen's University of Belfast and Bristol University , he was appointed Professor of Medieval Literature at the University of York; also Director of the Centre for Medieval Studies and later Head of English & Related Literature. From 2003 to 2006, he was a Humanities Distinguished Professor at Ohio State University, Columbus, from where he moved to Yale University. In 2008, he was named Douglas Tracy Smith Professor of English at Yale. He retired in 2018, and is now living in the Scottish Borders. Professor Minnis is a Fellow of the English Association, UK , a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America , and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy . From 2012 to 2014, he served as president of the New Chaucer Society. Currently, he is Vice-President of the John Gower Society. He was General Editor of the Cambridge University Press series Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature from 1987 to 2018, and holds an honorary master's degree from Yale and an honorary doctorate from the University of York . The University of York also bestowed on him the honorific title of Emeritus Professor of Medieval Literature .

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The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism (2005) (178)
Medieval literary theory and criticism, c.1100-c.1375 : the commentary-tradition (1988) (111)
LATE-MEDIEVAL DISCUSSIONS OF COMPILATIO AND THE RÔLE OF THE COMPILATOR (1979) (101)
Medieval holy women in the Christian tradition c. 1100-c. 1500 (2010) (78)
‘Dante in Inglissh’: What Il Convivio Really Did for Chaucer (2005) (65)
I speke of folk in seculer estaat: Vernacularity and Secularity in the Age of Chaucer (2016) (63)
Affection and Imagination in ‘The Cloud of Unknowing’ and Hilton's ‘Scale of Perfection’ (1983) (62)
Chaucer and pagan antiquity (1982) (62)
Handling sin : confession in the Middle Ages (1998) (59)
Gower's 'Confessio Amantis': Responses and Reassessments (1987) (50)
Reclaiming the Pardoners (2003) (46)
Material Swords and Literal Lights: The Status of Allegory in William of Ockham's Breviloquium on Papal Power (2003) (40)
Text, image, interpretation : studies in Anglo-Saxon literature and its insular context in honour of Éamonn Ó Carragáin (2007) (40)
Fallible Authors: Chaucer's Pardoner and Wife of Bath (2007) (37)
Historians on Chaucer: The 'General Prologue' to the Canterbury Tales (2014) (36)
Byzantine criticism and the uses of literature (2005) (35)
Latin and vernacular : studies in late-medieval texts and manuscripts (1992) (32)
The Influence of Academic Prologues on the Prologues and Literary Attitudes of Late-Medieval English Writers (1981) (31)
Magister amoris: The Roman de la Rose and Vernacular Hermeneutics (2001) (26)
Medieval theology and the natural body (1997) (25)
Late-medieval religious texts and their transmission : essays in honour of A.I. Doyle (1994) (23)
The Medieval Boethius : studies in the vernacular translations of De consolatione philosophiae (1987) (20)
Middle English poetry : texts and traditions : essays in honour of Derek Pearsall (2001) (16)
Essays on Ricardian literature : in honour of J.A. Burrow (2000) (16)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Valuing the Vernacular (2009) (14)
Crux and controversy in Middle English textual criticism (1992) (14)
Purchasing Pardon: Material and Spiritual Economies on the Canterbury Pilgrimage (2006) (12)
From late Antiquity to the twelfth century (2005) (12)
John Gower, Sapiens in Ethics and Politics (1980) (11)
The Oxford Guides to Chaucer: The Shorter Poems (1997) (11)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Looking for a sign: the quest for Nominalism in Ricardian poetry (2009) (11)
Courts and regions in medieval Europe (2000) (10)
Latin commentary tradition and vernacular literature (2005) (10)
The arts of letter-writing (2005) (10)
The shorter poems (1995) (10)
Latin and vernacular from Dante to the age of Lorenzo (1321–c. 1500) (2005) (8)
Sources of the Boece (2005) (8)
Medieval imagination and memory (2005) (8)
'More Platonico loquitur': What Nicholas Trevet really did to William of Conches (1993) (7)
Grammatica and literary theory (2005) (7)
From Eden to Eternity: Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages (2015) (7)
Nolens auctor sed compilator reputari: the late-medieval discourse of compilation (2006) (7)
Dante Alighieri: experimentation and (self-)exegesis (2005) (6)
De Vulgari Auctoritate: Chaucer, Gower and Men of Great Authority (1991) (5)
Literary theory and polemic in Castile, c. 1200–c. 1500 (2005) (5)
Medieval Irish literary theory and criticism (2005) (5)
The profits of pleasure (2005) (5)
Absent Glosses: A Crisis of Vernacular Commentary in Late-Medieval England? (2004) (5)
11. Quadruplex Sensus, Multiplex Modus: Scriptural Sense and Mode in Medieval Scholastic Exegesis (2000) (5)
Moral Gower and Medieval Literary Theory. (1983) (5)
Authors in Love: The Exegesis of Late-Medieval Love-Poets (1992) (4)
Literary Theory in Discussions of Formae Tractandi by Medieval Theologians (1979) (4)
The Epistle to Can Grande (2005) (4)
‘Respondet Waltherus Bryth …’: Walter Brut in Debate on Women Priests (2005) (3)
LOGICAL FICTIONS IN MEDIEVAL LITERATURE AND PHILOSOPHY (2014) (3)
The arts of preaching (2005) (3)
1. The Trouble with Theology: Ethical Poetics and the Ends of Scripture (2012) (2)
Aggressive Chaucer: Of Dolls, Drink and Dante (2017) (2)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Chaucer and the relics of vernacular religion (2009) (2)
Chaucer’s Criseyde and Feminine Fear (2000) (2)
The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer (2014) (2)
Pruning the Rose: Evrart de Conty and European Vernacular Commentary (2001) (1)
Literary theory and practice in early-medieval Germany (2005) (1)
The Construction of Chaucer’s Pardoner (2006) (1)
Judson Boyce Allen, The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages: A Decorum of Convenient Distinction . Toronto and London: University of Toronto Press, 1982. Pp. xx, 327. $45. (1984) (1)
The Restoration of All Things: John Bradford’s Refutation of Aquinas on Animal Resurrection (2015) (1)
Humanist criticism of Latin and vernacular prose (2005) (1)
The Middle Ages (1997) (1)
Later literary criticism in Wales (2005) (1)
Anglo-Saxon textual attitudes (2005) (1)
John Wyclif—All Women’s Friend? (2006) (1)
Wyclif’s Eden: Sex, Death, and Dominion (2011) (1)
Lifting the Veil: Sexual/Textual Nakedness in the Roman de la Rose (2001) (1)
The Wisdom of Old Women: Alisoun of Bath as Auctrice (2006) (1)
Literary criticism in Middle High German literature (2005) (1)
Introduction: The Significance or the Medieval Theory of Authorship (2010) (0)
Fragmentations of Medieval Religion: Thomas More, Chaucer, and the Volcano Lover (2016) (0)
Epilogue: The Familiar Authors (2010) (0)
Hugh Magennis: Personal Prefaces (2012) (0)
1 Academic Prologues to ‘Auctores’ (2010) (0)
Medieval Sign Theory and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Ross G. Arthur (review) (2018) (0)
2 Prologues to Scriptural ‘Auctores’ (2010) (0)
Christopher Cannon, From Literacy to Literature: England, 1300-1400 (2019) (0)
Index of Latin Terms (2010) (0)
DISCUSSIONS OF ›AUTHORIAL ROLE‹ AND ›LITERARY FORM‹ IN LATE-MEDIEVAL SCRIPTURAL EXEGESIS (1977) (0)
Academic Prologues to Ovid and the Vernacular Art of Love (2001) (0)
1215–1349: culture and history (2011) (0)
Once More into the Breech: The Pardoner’s Prize ‘Relyk’ (2009) (0)
Signe d’estre malles: Genre, Gender, and the End of the Rose (2001) (0)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Piers's protean pardon: Langland on the letter and spirit of indulgences (2009) (0)
Demonic Prosthesis and the Walking Dead: (2022) (0)
Image Trouble in Vernacular Commentary: The Vacillations of Francesco da Barberino (2012) (0)
The Prick of Conscience and the Imagination of Paradise (2017) (0)
Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry by A. C. Spearing (review) (2018) (0)
Philip Knox, Jonathan Morton, and Daniel Reeve, eds., Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols, 2018. Pp. viii, 339; 3 black-and-white figures. €90. ISBN: 978-2-503-57621-3. (2020) (0)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Absent glosses: the trouble with Middle English hermeneutics (2009) (0)
Notes on Style (2017) (0)
Chapter 2. Power in Paradise (2015) (0)
Theorizing the Rose: Crises of Textual Authority in the Querelle de la Rose (2001) (0)
5 Literary Theory and Literary Practice (2010) (0)
4 Literary Forms in the ‘Literal Sense’ (2010) (0)
Secularity (2019) (0)
Life and historical contexts (2014) (0)
Figuring the letter: making sense of sensus litteralis in late-medieval Christian exegesis (2016) (0)
The arts of poetry and prose (2005) (0)
The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer: Love and lore: the shorter poems (2014) (0)
Religious Roles: Public and Private (2010) (0)
Chapter 2. Moral Fallibility: Chaucer’s Pardoner and the OfWce of Preacher (2008) (0)
Louis MacNeice: The Pattern and the Poem (1975) (0)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Bibliography (2009) (0)
Chapter 1. The Body in Eden (2015) (0)
Tobits Dog And The Dangers Of Literalism: William Woodford O.F.M. As Critic Of Wycliffite Exegesis (2009) (0)
3 Authorial Roles in the ‘Literal Sense’ (2010) (0)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Preface (2009) (0)
Traditions and Innovations in the Study of Medieval English Literature edited by Charlotte Brewer (2013) (0)
Chapter 4. Gender as Fallibility: Chaucer’s Wife of Bath and the Impediment of Sex (2008) (0)
Introduction: Authority and Fallibility in Medieval Textual Culture (2008) (0)
Fictions of antiquity: Troilus and Criseyde and The Legend of Good Women (2014) (0)
Siân Echard and Claire Fanger, The Latin Verses in the “Confessio Amantis”: An Annotated Translation . Preface by A. G. Rigg. (Medieval Texts and Studies, 7.) East Lansing, Mich.: Colleagues Press, 1991. Pp. lviii, 95. (1994) (0)
Eleanor Johnson, Staging Contemplation: Participatory Theology in Middle English Prose, Verse, and Drama. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2018. Paper. Pp. viii, 254. $30. ISBN: 978-0-226-57217-8. (2019) (0)
Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson, eds., Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of G. H. Russell (1989) (0)
Coda. Between Paradises (2015) (0)
Bending Augustine’s Nose, Or How to Authorize Sexual Pleasure (2018) (0)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Making bodies: confection and conception in Walter Brut's vernacular theology (2009) (0)
Chapter 3. De impedimento sexus: Women’s Bodies and the Prohibition of Priestly Power (2008) (0)
Parler proprement: Words, Deeds, and Proper Speech in the Rose (2001) (0)
Chapter 1. De officio praedicatoris: Of Preaching, Pardons, and Power (2008) (0)
Fifteenth-Century Versions of Thomistic Literalism: Girolamo Savonarola and Alfonso de Madrigal (1996) (0)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Notes (2009) (0)
Preface to the Reissued Second Edition (2010) (0)
Chapter 3. Death and the Paradise Beyond (2015) (0)
The Idea of Medieval Literature: New Essays on Chaucer and Medieval Culture in Honor of Donald R. Howard ed. by James M. Dean, Christian K. Zacher (review) (2018) (0)
‘Oonly consent of love is sufficiant for matrimonie’: Translating John Wyclif’s Word of the Mind (2009) (0)
Standardizing Lay Culture: Secularity in French and English Literature of the Fourteenth Century. (2006) (0)
The Canterbury Tales, II: experience and authority (2014) (0)
Chaucer Drinks what he Brews: The House of Fame, 1873-82 (2014) (0)
The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer: Further reading (2014) (0)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Introduction: valuing the vernacular (2009) (0)
STUDIES IN THE AGE OF CHAUCER (2010) (0)
The Cambridge Introduction to Chaucer: The Canterbury Tales , I: war, love, laughter (2014) (0)
Ethical Poetry, Poetic Theology: A Crisis of Medieval Authority? (0)
Introduction: Maistre Jehan de Meun and the magisterium amoris (2001) (0)
Poetic Theology : A Crisis of Medieval Authority ? (0)
Index of Biblical Citations (2015) (0)
Richard Firth Green, Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church (2019) (0)
Phantom Pains and Prosthetic Narratives (2021) (0)
Jonathan Morton, The ‘Roman de la Rose’ in its Philosophical Context: Art, Nature, and Ethics (2019) (0)
Techniques of Translation: Chaucer’s Boece by Tim William Machan (review) (2018) (0)
Marion Turner, Chaucer: A European Life (2020) (0)
John Younger (1785–1860): Marked by Fire and Steel (Part 1) (2022) (0)
Translations of Authority in Medieval English Literature: Spiritualizing marriage: Margery Kempe's allegories of female authority (2009) (0)
Introduction. Creating Paradise (2015) (0)
Criticism and literary theory in Old Norse-Icelandic (2005) (0)

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