Thomas Honegger
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Thomas Honegger's Degrees
- PhD Linguistics University of Zurich
- Masters Linguistics University of Zurich
- Bachelors Linguistics University of Zurich
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Thomas Honegger is a scholar of literature, known especially for his studies of J. R. R. Tolkien's Middle-earth. Biography Thomas Honegger has an MA in English Studies, Medieval Germanic Languages, and Medieval German Literature from the University of Zurich. He then worked in that university's Department of English as an assistant. He took his PhD in 1996 on the subject of "Animals in Medieval English Literature". He worked as a researcher at the University of Sheffield and at the Sorbonne Nouvelle, before becoming a lecturer at the University of Zurich. He had temporary postings at the universities of Kiel, Berlin, Zurich and Jena before becoming professor of Old English at the Friedrich Schiller University, Jena in 2002. He contributed a chapter on Tolkien's academic writings to the Wiley-Blackwell A Companion to J. R. R. Tolkien, published in 2014.
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- 4. “And if ye wol nat so, my lady sweete, thanne preye I thee, [...].”: Forms of address in Chaucer's Knight's Tale (2003) (25)
- Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings sources of inspiration (2008) (13)
- Form and function: The beasts of battle revisited (1998) (10)
- Fantasy, Escape, Recovery, and Consolation in Sir Orfeo: The Medieval Foundations of Tolkienian Fantasy (2010) (9)
- Tolkien and modernity (2006) (8)
- From Phoenix to Chauntecleer : medieval English animal poetry (1996) (8)
- 'Wouldst thou withdraw love's faithful vow?' : The negotiation of love in the Orchard Scene (Romeo and Juliet Act II) (2006) (7)
- The Homecoming of Beorhtnoth: Philology and the Literary Muse (2007) (7)
- A NOTE ON THE MAN-IN-THE- MOON POEM NO. 333 IN IONA AND PETER OPIE'S THE OXFORD DICTIONARY OF NURSERY RHYMES (1997) (2000) (5)
- “What’s in a name?”: Names and terms of address in Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet (2012) (4)
- Riddles, knights, and cross-dressing saints : essays on medieval English language and literature (2004) (4)
- My Most Precious Riddle: Eggs and Rings Revisited (2013) (3)
- (Heroic) Fantasy and the Middle Ages – Strange Bedfellows or an Ideal Cast? (2010) (3)
- ‘But-þat þou louye me, Sertes y dye fore loue of þe’: Towards a typology of opening moves in Courtly Amorous Interaction (2000) (2)
- On the fringes of interaction: The dawn-song as a linguistic routine of parting (1999) (2)
- Magic and the supernatural in medieval English Romance (2012) (2)
- The Riddles of The Hobbit by Adam Roberts (review) (2014) (2)
- ‘We don’t need another hero’ – Problematic Heroes and their Function in Some of Tolkien’s Works (2020) (1)
- Perspectives on Just War in Tolkien’s Legendarium (2009) (1)
- From the Western Poeticisation of Falkor and Temeraire to the Imaginary of Chinese Dragons 359 (2009) (1)
- The Inklings, the Victorians and the Moderns: Reconciling Tradition in the Modern Age (2020), by Christopher Butynskyi (2020) (1)
- Michael J. Warren. 2018. Birds in Medieval English Poetry: Metaphors, Realities, Transformations. Nature and the Environment in the Middle Ages. Cambridge: Brewer, ix + 259 pp., 6 illustr., £ 60.00. (2020) (1)
- History of English (2008) (1)
- Draco litterarius. Some Thoughts on an Imaginary Beast (2009) (1)
- Sympathetic Background in Tolkien’s Prose (2014) (1)
- The Sea-dragon – in Search of an Elusive Creature (2017) (1)
- Tolkien the Medievalist (2013) (1)
- Elvish Re-incarnation, Valinorian Time, and Aragorn’s BeardJ.R.R. Tolkien, The Nature of Middle-earth: Late Writings on the Lands, Inhabitants, and Metaphysics of Middle-earth (2022) (1)
- Neil Cartlidge (ed.). Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance (2013) (1)
- Luf-talkyng and Middle English romance (2001) (1)
- Romanticism, Symbolism and Onomastics in Tolkien’s Legendarium (2010) (1)
- A Note on Beren and Luthien's Disguise as Werewolf And Vampire-Bat (2004) (1)
- The Legacy of the Bestiaries in Chaucer and Henryson (1999) (0)
- Allegorical Hares and Real Dragons (2021) (0)
- A good dragon is hard to find: From draconitas to draco 27 (2009) (0)
- The Beast Within: Animals in the Middle Ages by Joyce E. Salisbury (review) (2018) (0)
- Good Dragons are Rare (2009) (0)
- Words, words, words: philology and beyond : festschrift for Andreas Fischer on the occasion of his 65th birthday (2012) (0)
- Sub-creating Arda: World-building in J.R.R. Tolkien's Works, its Precursors, and Legacies (2019) (0)
- Fairies in medieval Romance (2012) (0)
- 'luf-talkyng' in Medieval Literature 2 (2004) (0)
- The Lay of Aotrou and Itroun (2016), by J.R.R. Tolkien, edited by Verlyn Flieger (2017) (0)
- Words and the New Englishes: Borrowing as evidence of contact and ancestral effects (2012) (0)
- Spenser’s Dragons 97 (2009) (0)
- 2. Academic Writings (2014) (0)
- Two Old English Prose Riddles of the Eleventh Century (2012) (0)
- Melissa Furrow. Expectations of Romance. The Reception of a Genre in Medieval England; The Exploitations of Medieval Romance. Medieval Romance, Medieval Contexts (2012) (0)
- The function of the sword-hilt inscription in Beowulf (2012) (0)
- Acknowledgments (2004) (0)
- Augustinian and Boethian Insights into Tolkien’s Shaping of Middle-earth (2011) (0)
- Tolkien, Race and Cultural History: From Fairies to Hobbits (review) (2009) (0)
- ‘Curteisi’ in Dame Sirith (2002) (0)
- "The Hobbit" and Tolkien's Mythology (2014), ed. Bradford Lee Eden (2015) (0)
- Animals in Medieval Literature: a Project for an Interdisciplinary Encyclopedia (2009) (0)
- 'Uncle me no uncle!’ Or Why Bilbo Is and Isn’t Frodo’s Uncle. (2020) (0)
- “Not very well-designed creatures”? Terry Pratchetts Drachen zwischen Parodie und Ernst 343 (2009) (0)
- The OED textual prototypes in the chronological structure of deverbatives : the evidence from Middle English (0)
- 'A Fox is a Fox is a Fox... ' The Fox and the Wolf Reconsidered (1996) (0)
- Riders, Chivalry, and Knighthood in Tolkien (2017) (0)
- Conventions and Abbreviations (2009) (0)
- luf-talkyng 8 (2004) (0)
- Peter Jackson’s Adaptation of The Lord of the Rings: Cash or Kudos? (2013) (0)
- On the Fringes of Interaction (1999) (0)
- Luf-talkyng 5 (2004) (0)
- J.R.R. Tolkien’s Dragons: The Evolution of Glaurung and Smaug 271 (2009) (0)
- Hermeneutical Perspectives on Tolkien’s Rhetorical Craftsmanship (2016) (0)
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