John B . Friedman - Curriculum Vitae

John Block Friedman 2676 Summit Street Columbus, Ohio 43202 Friedman.429@osu.edu 614 268-4226 John Block Friedman, Vita EDUCATION: B.A., Reed College, 1960 M.A., Johns Hopkins University, 1962 Ph.D., Michigan State University, 1965 SPECIALTIES: Middle English Literature, Iconography, Manuscript Studies, Medieval Fashion History, Travel and Geography, Material Culture ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: Assistant Professor of English, Connecticut College, 1965-68 Associate Professor of English, Sir George Williams University, Montreal, 1968-71 Professor of English, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1971-1996 Herbert F. Johnson Distinguished Professor, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1986-87 Affiliate, The Beckman Institute for the Study of Cognition and Artificial Intelligence, University of Illinois, 1992-96 Professor Emeritus of English and Medieval Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana- Champaign 1996— Visiting Professor of English, Kent State University Salem, 1997-2010 Visiting Scholar, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio State University, 2014— FELLOWSHIPS AND RECOGNITIONS: Woodrow Wilson Fellow (with stipend), 1961-62 Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship, 1979-80 American Council of Learned Societies Grant-In-Aid, 1983-84 Affiliate, Center for Complex Systems Research, The Beckman Institute, l989-90 Arnold O. Beckman Research Award ($7000), 1989 Visiting Scholar, Wren Library, Trinity College, Cambridge, 1978-79 Associate of the Center for Advanced Study. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 1975-76 Fellow, Southeastern Institute of Medieval & Renaissance Studies, Summer 1975 EDITORIAL CONSULTANT: American Historical Review; Studies in Medieval Culture; The Chaucer Review; The Journal of English and Germanic Philology; The Journal of the History of Ideas; Medievalia; Mediaeval Studies (Toronto); Speculum; Publications of the Modern   1   Language Association of America; Studies in Iconography; Studies in the Age of Chaucer; Allegorica, South Atlantic Review;Enarratio; Associated University Presses of America; Brill Publishing, Leiden; Catholic University of America Press; Fairleigh Dickinson University Press; Harvard University Press; University of Pennsylvania Press; Princeton University Press; University of Toronto Press; Oxford Medieval Bibliographies. EDITORIAL BOARDS: The Chaucer Review (1999—) PROJECT EVALUATOR: National Endowment for the Humanities; Canada Council; Princeton Institute of Advanced Study Articles about my work on computer-assisted analysis and classification of medieval scripts. 1. "Computer Notes," The Chronicle of Higher Education (1 April 1991) 2."The Who's Who of Medieval Characters," The New Scientist, (6 April 1991), p. 22. 3. "Medieval Penmanship to be Computerized," Insight Magazine, (April 1991) 4."Illuminating Manuscripts," The Economist (London), (25 May 1991), p. 128 5."Scribes' Sign," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Technology Review (July 1991), p. 72 PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES AND OFFICES: Chairman, Modern Language Association of America, Literature and other Arts Section, General Topics 9, 1969 Chairman, Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Medieval Literature Section, 1982 Medieval Academy of America, Nominating Committee, 1994-96 International Center of Medieval Art, Associate of the Board of Directors, 2004-08 Illinois Medieval Association, Advisory Board 1988-90 Illinois Medieval Monographs Advisory Board, 1994-97 The Aldus Society New Chaucer Society Medieval Association of the Midwest PUBLICATIONS: Books 1) (with Kathrin Giogoli and Kristen Figg), eds. and trans., Book of the Wonders of the World. Studies, Transcription and Translation [BnF] MS fr. 22971 (Burgos: Siloé, 2018). Edition of, Translation of, and Commentary on Secrets de l’Histoire Naturelle, a Middle French Geographical and Encyclopedic compendium. 716 pages. 2) Associate Editor, Encyclopedia of Medieval Chronicles, Graham Dunphy, General editor (Leiden: Brill, 2010).   2   3) Brueghel’s Heavy Dancers: Transgressive Clothing, Class & Culture in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2010), 426 pp. 4) Associate Editor, Larissa J. Taylor, General Editor, Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2010). 5) Kristen Figg and John Block Friedman, eds., Arts & Humanities Through the Eras: Medieval Europe 814-1450 (Detroit and NY: Thomson Gale 2004), 515 pp. 6) General Editor (with Kristen Figg), Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. (Garland Publishing Company: NY, 2000; Paperback ed. Taylor and Francis, 2016), 715 pp. 7) (With Kristen Figg), The Princess with the Golden Hair: Letters of Elizabeth Waugh to Edmund Wilson 1933—1942. (Fairleigh Dickinson University Press in Collaboration with Associated University Presses: Cranbury, N J, 2000), 180 pp. 8) Orphée au Moyen Age, traduit par Jean-Michel Roessli [Pensée antique et médiévale. Textes: Vestigia 25] Fribourg and Paris: Editions Universitaires et Editions du Cerf, 1999), 367 pp. 9) (With Jessica Wegmann), Medieval Iconography: A Research Guide. [Garland Medieval Bibliographies Volume 20. Garland Reference Library in the Humanities Volume 1870] (New York: Garland, 1998), 464 pp. 10) Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, l995), 458 pp. 11) John de Foxton's Liber Cosmographiae (1408): An Edition and Codicological Study (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1988), 400 pp. 12) The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1981. (Paperback reprint Syracuse University Press, 2000), 308 pp. Now in 3rd paperback edition. 13) Orpheus in the Middle Ages (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1970) (Paperback reprint Syracuse University Press, 2000), 267 pp. Translations Bruno Roy, “The Household Encyclopedia as Magic Kit: Medieval Popular Interest in Pranks and Illusions,” The Journal of Popular Culture 14 (1980): 60-69. Edina Bozóky, "From Matter of Devotion to Amulets,” Medieval Folklore 3 (1994): 91- 107. Forwards and Introductions “Forward” in Asa S. Mittman and Peter Dendle, eds., The Ashgate Research Companion to Monsters and the Monstrous (Farnham, Surry and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2012), xxv-xxxix.   3   Journal Articles Published or Forthcoming 1. “Eurydice, Heurodis and the Noon-Day Demon,” Speculum 41 (1966): 22-29. 2. “The Cosmology of Praise: Smart's Jubilate Agno,” PMLA 82 (1967): 250-56. 3. “Syncretism and Allegory in the Jerusalem Orpheus Mosaic,” Traditio 23 (1967): 1- 13. 4. “A Reading of Chaucer's Reeve's Tale,” The Chaucer Review 2 (1967): 9-18. 5. “Henryson, the Friars, and the Confessio Reynardi,” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 66 (1967): 550-61. 6. “The Dreamer, the Whelp, and Consolation in the Book of the Duchess,” The Chaucer Review 3 (1969): 145-62. 7. “The Prioress' Beads 'Of Smal Coral',” Medium Aevum 39 (1970): 301-05. 8. “Antichrist and the Iconography of Dante's Geryon,” The Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes 35 (1972): 108-22. 9. “The Nun's Priest's Tale: The Preacher and the Mermaid's Song,” and “A Tribute to Arnold Williams,” The Chaucer Review 7 (1972): 250-66 and 229-33. 10. “The Architect's Compass in Creation Miniatures of the later Middle Ages,” Traditio 30 (1974): 419-29. 11. “Pandarus' Cushion and the 'pluma Sardanapalli,'” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 75 (1976): 41-55. 12. “Another Look at Chaucer and the Physiognomists,” Studies in Philology 78 (1981): 138-52. 13. “John de Foxton's Continuation of Ridwall's Fulgentius Metaforalis,” Studies in Iconography 7-8 (1981-82): 65-79. 14. “The Cipher Alphabet of John de Foxton's Liber Cosmographiae,” Scriptorium 36 (1982): 219-35. 15.“John Siferwas and the Mythological Illustrations in the Liber Cosmographiae of John de Foxton,” Speculum 58 (1983): 391-418. 16. “Medieval Cartography and Inferno 34: Satan's Three Faces Reconsidered,” Traditio 39 (1983): 447-56. 17. “Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and the Judicio Solis in Conviviis Saturni of Simon of Couvin,” Modern Philology 83 (1985): 137-60. 18. “Richard de Thorpe's Astronomical Kalendar and the Luxury Book Trade at York,” Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 169-84. 19. “Resources for Scholars: Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign,” The Library Quarterly 57.1 (January 1987): 70-80. 20. “Carmelite Propaganda in a 15th-Century French Gradual Fragment," Journal of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association 8 (1987): 67-95. 21."Bald Jonah and the Exegesis of 4 Kings 2.23,” Traditio 44 (for 1988) (l990): 125-44. 22.”'Dies boni et mali, obitus, et contra hec remedium': Remedies for Fortune in some Late Medieval English Manuscripts,” The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 90 (1991): 311-26. 23. “Electronic Sleuthing in Medieval Scriptoria,” Scripsit: The Triannual Journal of the Washington Calligraphers' Guild, 15.2 (1991): 15-18. 24. “Chaucer's 'Angelus ad Virginem' and the Mocking of Noah,” The Yearbook of English Studies 22 (1992):162-80.   4   25. “Cluster Analysis and the Manuscript Chronology of William du Stiphel, a Fourteenth- Century Scribe at Durham,” History and Computing 4 (1992): 75-97. 26. “The Friar Portrait in Bodleian Library MS Douce 104: Contemporary Satire?,” The Yearbook of Langland Studies 8 (1994): 177-84. 27. “Dorigen's 'Grisly Rokkes Blak' Again,” The Chaucer Review 32 (Summer, 1997): 133-44. 28. “Thomas of Cantimpré's Animal Moralitates: A Conflation of Genres,” Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 5 (1998): 1-14. 29. “Elizabeth Waugh: The Woman behind Edmund Wilson's 'Princess with the Golden Hair,'” The Centennial Review 43 (Winter/Spring 1999): 95-123. 30. “Alice of Bath's Astral Destiny: A Re-Appraisal,” The Chaucer Review 35.2 (2000): 166-81. 31. “Medievalism and a New Leaf by the Spanish Forger,” Studies in Medievalism 11 (2001): 213-37. 32. “'Monstres qui a ii mamelles bloe': Illuminator's Instructions in a MS of Thomas of Cantimpré,” The Journal of the Early Book Society 7 (2004): 11-32. 33. “Costume and Social Realism in the Early Pastourelles,” Enarratio: Papers of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 10 (2004): 49-80. 34. Kathrin Giogoli and John Block Friedman, “Robinet Testard: Court Illuminator, His Manuscripts and His Debt to the Graphic Arts,” The Journal of the Early Book Society 8 (2005): 152-96. 35. “Chaucer’s Pardoner, Rutebeuf’s “Dit de l’Herberie,” The “Dit du Mercier” and Cultural History,” Viator 38.1 (2007): 289-319. 36. “The Peddler-Robbed-by-Apes Topos: Parchment to Print and Back Again,” The Journal of the Early Book Society 11 (2008): 87-120. 37. “Arthurian Monsters and Breton Geography in the Middle Ages,” Enarratio: Papers of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 15 (2008): 124-51. 38. “The Art of the Exotic: Robinet Testard’s Turbans and Turban-like Coiffure” Medieval Clothing and Textiles 4 (2008): 173-91. 38. “The Iconography of Dagged Clothing and its Reception by Moralist Writers,” Medieval Clothing and Textiles 9 (2013): 121-38. 39. “Werewolf Transformation in the Manuscript Era,” The Journal of the Early Book Society 17 (2014): 35-93. 40. “Dürer’s Rhinoceros and what he or she was wearing: Carnations, Luxury Gardens, Identity Formation, and Urban Splendor, 1460-1550,” The Journal of Material Culture 20.2 (September, 2015): 273-97. 41. “Coats, Collars, and Capes: Royal Fashions for Animals in the Early Modern Period,” Medieval Clothing and Textiles 12 (2016): 61-94. 42. “Eyebrows, Hairlines, and ‘Hairs Less in Sight’: Female Depilation in Late Medieval Europe,” Medieval Clothing and Textiles 14 (2018): 81-111. 43. “Bottom Kissing and the Fragility of Status in Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale, ”The Chaucer Review 54.2 (April 2019): 119-40. 44. “The Marvelous Beasts of the Secrets of Natural History,” De Medio Aevo 13 (2019): 13-44. 45. Tracking the Mysterious Loz in the Secrets of Natural History,” Reinardus 32 (2020): 102-34.   5   46. “Gog and Magog by Any Other Name: A Propagandistic Use of the Legend,” Viator 50.2 (2019): 307-50. 47.  —  and  Melanie  Bond,  “Fashion  and  Material  Culture  in  the  Tabletop  of  the  Seven   Deadly  Sins  Attributed  to  Hieronymus  Bosch,”  Medieval  Clothing  and  Textiles,   16  (2020):  123-­‐62.   48. “Bonnacon Defence in Medieval Natural History,” Archives of Natural History 49.1 (2022). In Press. 49. “The Catalan Medievalism of Antoni Gaudí’s Sagrada Familia,” Studies in Medievalism, 32 (2022). In Press. Chapters in Books, Conference Proceedings, and Articles in Encyclopediae 1. “Figural Typology and the Middle English Patience,” in Bernard Levy and Paul Szarmach, eds., The Alliterative Tradition in the 14th-Century (Kent State University Press, 1981), pp. 99-129. 2. “Thomas of Cantimpré, De Naturis Rerum (Prologue, Book III, Book XIX),” Cahiers d'Études médiévales II. La science de la nature: Théories et pratiques (Paris and Montreal, 1974), pp.107-54. 3. “L'Iconographie de Vénus et de son Miroir à la fin du Moyen Âge,” in Bruno Roy, ed., L'Erotisme au Moyen Âge (Montreal, 1977), pp. 53-82. 4. “Les images mnémotechniques dan les manuscrits de l'époque gothique,” in Bruno Roy and Paul Zumthor, eds., Jeux de mémoire. Aspects de la mnémotechnie médiévale (Montreal and Paris, 1985), pp. 169-84. 5. “Two Anglo-Saxon Manuscripts Containing Monstrous Men,” in Thomas Ohlgren, ed., Insular and Anglo-Saxon Illuminated Manuscripts: An Iconographic Catalogue c. A.D. 625 to 1100 (New York: Garland, 1986), pp. 134-36, pp. 253- 55. 6. “'He hath a thousand slayn this pestilence': Iconography of the Plague in the Late Middle Ages,” in F. X. Newman, ed., Social Unrest in the Late Middle Ages (Binghamton, NY, 1986), pp. 75-112. 7. “The Marvels-of-the East Tradition in Anglo-Saxon Art,” in Paul Szarmach, ed., Sources of Anglo-Saxon Culture (Kalamazoo, MI, 1986), pp. 319-41. 8. “Preachers and Peacocks: Analytic Technique in Marcus of Orvieto's Liber de Moralitatibus, Vatican Lat. MS 5935,” in Willene Clark and Meradith McMunn, eds., Beasts and Birds of the Middle Ages: The Bestiary and its Legacy (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1989), pp. 179-96. 9. “Books, Owners, and Makers in Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire: The Evidence from Some Wills and Extant Manuscripts,” in A. J. Minnis, ed., Latin and Vernacular: Studies in Late-Medieval Manuscripts (Cambridge, Eng.: Boydell and Brewer, 1989), pp. 111-27. 10. “Geography, Imaginary,” in Silvio A. Bedini et al. eds. The Christopher Columbus Encyclopedia (New York: Simon and Schuster, l992), pp. 293-96. 11. “Computerized Script Analysis and Classification: Some Directions for Research,” in Optical Character Recognition in the Historical Discipline: Proceedings of an International Workshop Organized by Netherlands Historical Data Archive and   6    Nijmegen Institute for Cognition and Information (Göttingen: Max Planck-Institut für Geschichte, St. Katharinen, 1993), pp. 67-80. 12. “Cultural Conflicts in Medieval World Maps,” in Stuart Schwartz ed., Implicit Understandings: Observing, Reporting, and Reflecting on the Encounters between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Early Modern Era (Cambridge University Press, 1994), pp. 64-95. 13. “Some Contour Features in Medieval Script: A Preliminary Study” in Claudie Faure et al. eds. Advances in Handwriting and Drawing: A Multidisciplinary Approach (Paris: Europia, 1994), pp. 547-67. 14. “Harry the Haywarde and Talbat his dog: An Illustrated Girdlebook from Worcestershire,” in Carol Fisher and Kathleen Scott, eds., Art into Life. Collected Papers from the Kresge Art Museum Medieval Symposia (East Lansing: Michigan State University Press, l995), pp. 115-53. 15. “The Performance of Some Wakefield Master Plays on the University of Illinois Campus,” in John Alford, ed., From Page to Performance: Essays on Early English Drama (East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University Press, 1995), pp. 99-108. 16. “Albert the Great's Topoi of Direct Observation and his Debt to Thomas of Cantimpré” in Peter Binkley, ed. Pre-Modern Encyclopaedic Texts. Proceedings of the Second COMERS Congress, Groningen, 1-4 July 1996. [Brill’s Studies in Intellectual History 79] (Leiden/New York/Cologne: Brill, 1997), pp. 379-92. 17. “Safe Magic: Invisible Writing that Skirts the Dangerous in the Secretum Philosophorum,” in Claire Fanger, ed., Conjuring Spirits: Texts and Traditions of Medieval ritual Magic (London: Sutton, 1998), pp. 76-86. 18. “Liber Monstrorum” in John B. Friedman and Kristen Figg, eds., Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. (New York: Garland, 2000) 341-42. 19. “Secretz de la Nature", in John B. Friedman and Kristen Figg, eds. Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 545-46. 20. “Stonehenge and Other Megalithic Marvels,” in John B. Friedman and Kristen Figg, eds. Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 581-84. 21. “Thomas of Cantimpré,” in John B. Friedman and Kristen Figg, eds., Trade, Travel, and Exploration in the Middle Ages: An Encyclopedia. (New York: Garland, 2000), pp. 599-601. 22. “Monsters at the Earth's Imagined Corners: Wonders and Discovery in the Late Middle Ages,” in Leif Sondergaard et al. eds., Monsters, Marvels and Miracles: Imaginary Journeys and Landscapes in the Middle Ages (Odense: University Press of Southern Denmark, 2005), pp. 41-64. 23. “Monsters and the Monstrous,” in William Chester Jordan, ed., Supplement to the Dictionary of the Middle Ages I (New York: Scribners, 2004), pp. 409-13. 24. “Demons,” in William Chester Jordan, ed., Supplement to the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: Scribners, 2004), pp. 151-53. 25. “Devil,” in William Chester Jordan, ed., Supplement to the Dictionary of the Middle Ages (New York: Scribners, 2004), pp. 154-57.   7   26. “The Humour and Folly of the World in Odd Places: A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Herbal,” in Dana Stewart, ed., Science and Literature at the Crossroads: Papers from the 34th CEMERS Interdisciplinary Conference, Mediaevalia 29.1 (2008), pp. 207-35. 27. “The Merda Philosophorum: an English Problem,” in Marlene V. Hennessy, ed., Tributes to Kathleen L. Scott, English Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts: Readers, Makers and Illuminators (Turnhout: Brepols and Harvey Miller, 2009), Chapter 6, pp. 83-100. 28. “Sym and his Bruder: A Late Middle Scots Satire on Pilgrims, in Larissa Taylor et al. eds., Encyclopedia of Medieval Pilgrimage (Leiden, Boston: Brill: 2010), pp.738- 39. 29. “Monsters and Monstrous Races,” in Graeme Dunphy et al., eds., The Encyclopedia of Medieval Chronicles (Leiden: Brill, 2010), pp. 1117-21. 30. “John de Foxton,” in Graeme Dunphy et al., eds., The Encyclopedia of Medieval Chronicles (Leiden: Brill, 2010), p. 927. 31. “Radulphus de Marham” in Graeme Dunphy et al., eds., The Encyclopedia of Medieval Chronicles (Leiden: Brill, 2010), p. 1250. 32. “Robin Hood and the Social Context of Late Medieval Archery,” in Stephen Knight, ed., Robinhood in Greenwood Stood: Alterity and Context in the English Outlaw Tradition (Turnhout: Brepols, 2012), pp. 67-85. 33. “Chaucer’s Soft Furnishings,” in Gale Owen-Crocker, et al., eds., Encyclopedia of Dress and Textiles in Great Britain (Leiden: Brill, 2012), pp. 121-22. 34. “Anxieties at Table: Food and Drink in Chaucer’s Fabliaux Tales and Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Der Ring,” in Emma Cayley and Susan Powell, eds., Manuscripts and Printed Books in Europe 1350-1550: Packaging, Presentation and Consumption [Exeter Studies in Medieval Europe] (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2013), pp. 169-86. 35. “Dogs in the Identity Formation and Moral Teaching Offered in some Fifteenth- Century Flemish Manuscript Miniatures,” in Laura Gelfand, ed., Our Dogs, Our Selves: Dogs in Medieval and Early Modern Art, Literature, and Society (Leiden: Brill, 2016), Ch. 14, pp. 325-62. 36. “Dressing Monstrous Men: Landsknechte Clothing in Some Early Modern Danish Church Wall Paintings,” in Michael Heyes, ed.,  Holy  Monsters,  Sacred   Grotesques  (Lanham,  MD:  Lexington  Books,  2017),  pp.  47-­‐82.     37. “Hair  and  Social  Class”  in  Roberta  Milliken,  ed.,  A  Cultural  History  of  Hair   (London:  Bloomsbury  Academic,  2018),  Chapter  8:  pp.  137-­‐51,  198-­‐202. 38. “Dressed to Kill:” The Clothing of Christ’s Tormentors in an Illustrated Polish Devotional Manuscript,” in Maren  Clegg-­‐Hyer  and  Gale  R.  Owen-­‐Crocker,  eds., Refashioning Medieval and Early Modern Dress: a Tribute to Robin Netherton on her 60th Birthday (Cambridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2019), pp. 124-54.   39.  “Monsters”  in  Encyclopedia  of  the  Bible  and  its  Reception  (Berlin:  De  Gruyter,   2021),  pp.  908-­‐10. 40. “Chaucer and Clothing,” The Chaucer Encyclopedia (2022), forthcoming. 41. “Yorkshire,” in The Chaucer Encyclopedia (2022), forthcoming.   8   42. “Reading Monstrous Peoples in Greece and Rome,” in Debbie Felton ed., The Oxford Handbook of Monsters in Classical Myth (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022. In Press. 43. “Revisiting  the  Animal  Wonders  of  London,  British  Library  MS  Cotton  Vitellius  A.   XV”  in  Gale  Owen-­‐Crocker  and  Maren  Clegg-­‐Hyer,  eds.,  Daily  Living  5:   Animalia:  Animal  and  Human  Interaction  in  Daily  Living  in  the  Early  Medieval   English  World  (Liverpool  University  Press,  2022).  In  Press.     44.  “Aids  to  Female  Beauty,  in  the  Middle  Ages,”  in  Sarah  Alison  Miller,  ed.,  Cultural   History  of  Beauty  in  the  Middle  Ages  (London:  Bloomsbury  Academic,  2022).   In  Press. Reviews 1. Peter Dronke, Poetic Individuality in the Middle Ages, in English Language Notes, 9 (1972): 199-203. 2. D.J.A. Ross, Illustrated Medieval Alexander Books, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 72 (1973): 118-22. 3. Ian Robinson, Chaucer's Prosody, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 72 (1973): 238-41. 4. J.A. Burrow, Ricardian Poetry, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 73 (1973): 241-44. 5. Jonathan Saville, The Medieval Erotic Alba, in English Language Notes 11 (1974): 129-33. 6. John Steadman, Disembodied Laughter, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 74 (1975): 225-28. 7. Paule Demats, Fabula, in Speculum, 52 (1976): 734-37. 8. Beryl Rowland, Birds with Human Souls, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, 79 (1980): 102-05. 9. [Review Article] Janis L. Pallister, Ambrose Paré on Monsters and Marvels, in The Sciences 23 (Nov.-Dec. 1983): 62-64. 10. John Warden, ed., Orpheus, The Metamorphosis of a Myth, in Speculum, 59 (1984): 213-24. 11. Warren Ginsberg, The Cast of Character. The Representation of Personality in Ancient and Medieval Literature in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 84 (1985): 411-15. 12. Linda E. Voigts and Michael R. McVaugh, A Latin Technical Phlebotomy and its Middle English Translation, in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 7 (1985): 260-62. 13. P. McGurk et al. An Eleventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Illustrated Miscellany: British Library Cotton Tiberius B.V. Part I (Early English Manuscripts in Facsimile XXI), in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 87 (1986): 557-59. 14. Adrian Wilson and Joyce L. Wilson, A Medieval Mirror: Speculum humanae salvationis, 1324-1500, in The Library Quarterly 57.1 (Jan. 1987): 115-17. 15. Seth Lerer, Boethius and Dialogue: Literary Method in The Consolation of Philosophy, in Speculum 63.2 (1988): 428-31. 16. Penn Szittya, The Antifraternal Tradition in Medieval Literature, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 88 (1989): 396-99.   9   17. Derek Pearsall, The Canterbury Tales, in Yearbook of English Studies (Feb. 1989): 305-06. 18. [Review Article] Elizabeth Sears, The Ages of Man: Medieval Interpretations of the Life Cycle; Mary Dove, The Perfect Age of Man's Life; J.A. Burrow, The Ages of Man: A Study in Medieval Writing and Thought, in The Yearbook of Langland Studies 3 (1989): 137-52. 19. Wilma George and Brunsdon Yapp, The Naming of the Beasts: Natural History in the Medieval Bestiary, in Medical History 36 (1992): 340-41. 20. K.W. Humphreys, ed., The Friars' Libraries (Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues), in Library History 9, 3-4 (1993 for 1992): 133-35 21. F.N.M. Diekstra, ed., The Middle English Weye of Paradys & the Middle French Voie de Paradis: A Parallel-Text Edition in Speculum 69 (1994): 454-56. 22. Hilary M. Carey, Courting Disaster: Astrology at the English Court and University in the Later Middle Ages, in Speculum 69 (1994): 1135-38. 23. [Review article] Jonathan J.G. Alexander, Medieval Illuminators and their Methods of Work, and Barbara Shailor, Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Yale University. Volume III: The Marston Manuscripts, in Medievalia et Humanistica New Series 21 (l994): 145-52. 24. Christopher Baswell, Virgil in Medieval England. In The American Historical Review (April, 1997): 438-39. 25. Andy Orchard, Pride and Prodigies: Studies in the Monsters of the "Beowulf" Manuscript. In Modern Language Review (April 1998): 455-56. 26. Iain Macleod Higgins, Writing East: The "Travels" of Sir John Mandeville. In The American Historical Review (October 1998): 1239. 27. Lister Matheson, ed., Popular and Practical Science of Medieval England, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 97 (1998): 107-10. 28. David Williams, Deformed Discourse: The Function of the Monster in Medieval Thought and Literature, in Speculum 74.4 (1999): 215-18. 29. Linne R. Mooney, The Index of Middle English Prose. Handlist XI: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98.2 (1999): 252-54. 30. Ann Astell, Chaucer and the Universe of Learning, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 99.2 (2000): 255-59. 31. Ad Putter, An Introduction to the Gawain Poet, in Speculum 75 (2000): 228-30. 32. Keiko Ikegami, ed., Barlaam and Josaphat. A Transcription of MS Egerton 876 with Notes, Glossary, and Comparative Study of the Middle English and Japanese Versions in Speculum 76 (April 2001): 1057-58. 33. Jeffrey Jerome Cohen, Of Giants. Sex, Monsters, and the Middle Ages, in The Medieval Review, TMR 4/01. 34. [Review article] Ralph Hanna III, The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist XII: Manuscripts in Smaller Bodleian Collections; O. S. Pickering and V. M. O'Mara , The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist XIII: Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library ; and William Marx, The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist XIV: Manuscripts in the National Library of Wales in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 100.2 (April 2002): 242-45.   10   35. Jane Chance, Medieval Mythography 2: From the School of Chartres to the Court at Avignon, 1177-1350, in Speculum 77 (October 2002): 1254-57 36. Geraldine Heng, Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy, in Speculum 79 (October 2004): 1093-94. 37. Peter Dronke, Imagination in the Late Pagan and Early Christian World: The First Nine Centuries A.D, in Speculum 80 (April 2005): 504-05. 38. M. C. Seymour, ed. The Defective Version of Mandeville’s Travels, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 105.2 (2006): 338-40 39. Raymond Clemens and Timothy Graham, Introduction to Manuscript Studies, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 109.1 (January 2010): 104-08. 40. David Scott-Macnab, ed., The Middle English Text of the Art of Hunting by William Twiti, in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 110.4 (2011): 546-47. 41. [Review article] Kathleen Walker-Meikle, Medieval Pets; Medieval Dogs; Medieval Cats, in Enarratio: Publications of the Medieval Association of the Midwest 18 (2015): 151-55. 42. Carol M. Meale and Derek Pearsall, eds., Makers and Users of Medieval Books: Essays in Honour of A.S.G. Edwards in The Journal of English and Germanic Philology 115 (2016): 489-93. 43.Thomas Honegger, Introducing the Medieval Dragon in Archives of Natural History 49.2 (2022). In Press. 44. Kathryn L. Smithies, Introducing the Medieval Ass, in Archives of Natural History 49.2 (2022). In Press. Plenary Addresses and Invited Lectures 1. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, Conference on the Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century: “Figural Typology and the Middle English Patience,” 1975. 2. Institut d'études médiévales, Université de Montréal, L'Érotisme au Moyen Âge: “L'Iconographie de Vénus et de son miroir à la fin du Moyen Âge,” 1976. 3. Signs and Symbols in Chaucer, University of Alabama, “Another Look at Chaucer and the Physiognomists,” 1977. 4. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton, Social Unrest in the Later Middle Ages, “'He hath a thousand slayn this pestilence': The Iconography of the Plague in the Later Middle Ages,” 1981. 5. Tulane University, The Legacy of Alexander, “Alexander the Great and the 'Monstrous' Races of India in the Middle Ages,” 1982. 6. Institut d'études médiévales, Université de Montréal, La Mémoire au Moyen Âge: “Les images mnémotechniques dan les manuscrits de l'époque gothique,” 1983. 7. The Committee for the Advancement of Early Studies, Ball State University: “'All Venerien in feelynge': The Wife of Bath's Astral Destiny Once More,” 1986. 8. Kresge Art Museum Spring Symposium, Michigan State University, “Harry the Haywarde and Talbat his dog: Secular Images in an Illustrated Manuscript at Oxford,” 1987.   11   9. Medieval Club of New York: Tools, Techniques and Technologies, An Interdisciplinary Conference, “Uses of Folium in English Manuscript Painting of the Later Middle Ages,” 1989. 10. Imagining New Worlds: Factual and Figural Discovery during the Middle Ages, Lehman College of the City University of New York, “Space and Power in the Medieval Mappaemundi.” 1989. 11. Center for Early Modern History, University of Minnesota, “Implicit Ethnographies: Encounters Between Europeans and Other Peoples in the Wake of Columbus,” October, 1990. 12. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies, State University of New York, Binghamton, On the Margins, “'Fer in the north, I kan nat telle where': On the Margins in National Geography in the Late Middle Ages,” October, 1993. 13. Cultural Cartography: Mapping the Other in the Middle Ages, Medieval Studies at Purdue: “Geographical Menu Pictures in Les Secretz de la Nature," Purdue University, September, 1998. 14. Fellows Riverside Gardens, Mill Creek Park, Boardman, Ohio. Plants and People: Their Interaction. “Carnations in Majolica Jars and Social History in Medieval Flemish Painting,” September, 1998. 15. Hood College, Frederick, Maryland. Mapping the Unknown: The Exotic in the Late Middle Ages. “Monsters at the Earth's Imagined Corners: Wonder and Discovery in the Late Middle Ages,” February 22, 2000. 16. Evelyn Dunbar Early Music Festival Symposium, Northwestern University, “Geography and Monsters in the Age of Marco Polo,” January 13, 2001. 17. Odense, Denmark, University of Southern Denmark: “Monsters at the Earth's Imagined Corners: Wonders and Discovery in the Late Middle Ages,” Monsters and Marvels Conference, November, 2001. 18. Rowfant Club, Cleveland, Ohio, “Robinet Testard's Twin Herbals and the Intersection of Print and Manuscript Cultures,” March, 2003. 19. Yale University, Medieval Studies Group, “Images of Trades and Manufacturing in a Fifteenth-Century French Herbal,” April 9, 2004. 20. “The Humour and Folly of the World in Odd Places: A Fifteenth-Century Manuscript Herbal,” The Texas Medieval Association, Houston, Texas, October 2005. 21. The Cambridge Illuminations: Ten Centuries of Book Production in the Medieval West. Cambridge University, England, "The Allegorical Miniatures of CUL MS Nn.3.2 "Les Douze Dames de Rhétorique," December 8-10, 2005. 22. “Folium: The Most Mysterious Pigment, “ Die Schedula diversarum artium. Ein Handbuch mittelalterlichen Kunst,” Thomas Institute, University of Cologne, 8- 11 September 2010. 23. “Lycanthropy, Humanism, and the ‘Secrets of Natural History’: a Fifteenth-Century French Wonders and Travel Book,” Wilfrid Laurier University Medieval Studies Program, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada, March 30, 2012. 24. “Hairy on the Inside”: Marie de France’s Bisclavret and Medieval Werewolf Illustration,” Joseph S. Schick Memorial Lecture, Indiana State University, Terre Haute IN, September, 2013. 25. “The Making of a Facsimile,” The Aldus Society, Columbus, Ohio, September, 2013.   12   26.“Carnations, Social Status and the Power Over Nature in some Fifteenth and Sixteenth-Century Flemish Illuminated Manuscripts.” The Center for Material Culture Studies,” The Ohio State University, February 19, 2014. 27. “The World as Miracle and all the Monsters in it: The Religious Context of the Secrets of Natural History, a 15th-Century Middle French Wonders Treatise” Holy Monsters, Sacred Grotesques, Rice University, Houston, Texas, October 25- 27, 2013. 28.”Coats and Collars: Fashions for Animals in the Late Middle Ages and the Early Modern Period, “ Lafayette College, Easton, PA, November, 2014. 29. "Repurposing Classical Myth and Medieval Bestiaries in Harry Potter." (2016-2017 Barbara A. Hanawalt Endowed Public Lecture). Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio State University, November 18, 2016. 30. “’Dressed  to  Kill:’  The  Clothing  of  Christ’s  Tormentors  in  an  Illustrated  Polish   Devotional  Manuscript.”  The  Slavic  and  Eastern  European  Center,  The  Ohio   State  University,  October  2017.   Papers Presented and Round Table Participation at Conferences 1. Society of Biblical Literature, Art and the Bible: “The Architect's Compass in Creation Miniatures of the Later Middle Ages,” 1970. 2. Modern Language Association, General Topics 9, Literature and the other Arts: “Antichrist and the Iconography of Dante's Geryon,” 1970. 3. Modern Language Association, Seminar 48, Literature and Iconography: “Changing Attitudes toward the Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Literature,” 1971. 4. Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale, Poitiers, France, “Les races monstrueuses de l'Orient: conceptions et attitudes à travers l'art et la littérature du moyen âge,” 1973. 5. Modern Language Association, English 5, Middle English: “The Middle English Patience, some Problems in Iconographic Interpretation,” 1974. 6. Conference on Manuscript Studies, Saint Louis University “Physiognomy, Iconography and the Liber Cosmographiae of John Foxton,” 1976. 7. American Association of University Professors of Italian, University of Illinois, “Medieval Cartography and the Three Faces of Satan, Inferno 34,” 1980. 8. Philological Association of the Pacific Coast, Stanford, CA, “John Foxton's Continuation of the Fulgentius Metaforalis of John Ridwall,” 1981. 9. Modern Language Association, Middle English: The Chaucer Apocrypha, “Henryson's Testament of Cresseid and the Judicio Solis in Conviviis Saturni of Simon of Couvin,” 1982. 10. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, “The Contents and Emphasis of the Anonymous Liber de Moralitatibus, Vatican MS Lat. 5935,” 1983. 11. Conference on Manuscript Studies, St. Louis University: “Anglo-Saxon and Romanesque Style in the Age of Edward III: The 'Archaizing' Initials of an Historia Aurea in Cambridge,” 1984. 12. Illinois Medieval Association, 2nd Annual Meeting, Bloomington, IL: “The Medieval Manuscript Holdings of the University of Illinois Rare Book Room,” 1985.   13   13. Fifth Citadel Conference on Literature, The Citadel, Charleston, SC: “Bald Jonah and the Exegesis of IV Kings 2:23,” 1985. 14. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University: “Carmelite Propaganda in a 15th-Century Gradual Leaf at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign,” 1986. 15. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, “Remedies for Fortune in some Medieval English Manuscript Collections, 1987. 16. Fourth York Manuscripts Conference, University of York, York, England, “Manuscript Book Productions in the Province of York, 1375-1450,” 1987. 17. International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, “Amateur Scribes and Book Ownership in Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire,” 1988. 18. New Chaucer Society 1988 Congress, Vancouver, British Columbia, “'Angelus ad Virginem' Once Again: An Iconographic Approach to the Problem,” 1988. 19. Medieval Academy of America, Madison, Wisconsin, “The Iconography of Medieval World Maps,” 1989. 20. The Early Book Society, Grey College, University of Durham, England, “The Reader and the Book in England, "Anachronistic Border Decoration in some Fifteenth- Century Northern Manuscripts: Possible Evidence for a Common Workshop,” 1989. 21. New Chaucer Society, University of Kent, Canterbury, “Northern Magnates as Patrons: John Newton, Thomas Langley, Thomas Rotherham and their Manuscripts,” 1990. 22. Saint Louis Manuscript Conference, John B. Friedman and Russel Shermer, Center for Complex Systems Research, The Beckman Institute, University of Illinois, “Optical Scanning, Pattern Recognition, and Feature Space Analysis as an Aid to Palaeographical Study,” October l990. 23. 26th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, “Female Literacy in Fifteenth-Century Yorkshire,” l99l. 24.The Early Book Society: Ideas of Order in Key Texts, Trinity College, Dublin, “William du Stiphel, A Computer Assisted Analysis of His Script and Canon,” July l99l. 25. Medieval Academy of America, “Mythic and Scientific Cartography in the Age of Columbus,” Ohio State University, March 1992 26. Conference on Manuscript Studies, Saint Louis University, “Another Leaf from the Spanish Forger's Book: A Fake Antiphonal Miniature in the University of Illinois Collections,” October 1992. 27. 28th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, “A 'House' Style in Two Fifteenth-Century Northern Horae,” 1993. 28. Sixth International Conference on Handwriting and Drawing, “Contour Features in Medieval Script: A Preliminary Study,” Paris, France, July 4-7, 1993. 29. The Early Book Society: Ways of Looking: Production and Presentation of Books and MSS 1300-1500, “The Heart of Christ as Shelter Metaphor in Some Late Medieval English MSS Illuminations,” University of Sheffield, July 1993. 30. 29th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, “The Breton Setting of the Franklin's Tale Revisited,” 1994.   14   31. Estrangement, Enterprise and Education: Chapters in Fifteenth-Century English History, The Richard III Society, “Late Medieval Sample Alphabets,” University of Illinois, Urbana, April 1995. 32. 31st International Congress on Medieval Studies, Societas Magica, “Safe Magic: Invisible Writing that Skirts the Dangerous in the Secretum Philosophorum,” 1996. 33. COMERS, University of Groningen, Pre-Modern Encyclopedic Texts, “Experimentator and Liber Rerum: Lost Encyclopedists,” July 1996. 34. Annual Women’s Conference, Kent State University/Salem, “Discovering Elizabeth Waugh: The Woman Behind Edmund Wilson's Princess with the Golden Hair,” April 1997. 35. Medieval Academy of America. “The Rediscovery of the Lower Classes: Realistic Peasants in Late-Medieval Literature and Art,” University of Toronto, April 1997. 36. 32nd International Congress on Medieval Studies, Early Book Society, “The Development of Labors of the Months Iconography in Late Medieval Manuscript Illustration,” May 1997. 37. Early Book Society Meeting, Lampeter, Wales, "Pots of Carnations and Trompe-l'oeil Realism in Late Fifteenth-Century Flemish Manuscript Painting,” July 1997. 38. Medieval Association of the Midwest, “Thomas of Cantimpré's Animal Moralitates: A Conflation of Genres,” University of Iowa, September 1997. 39. 33d International Congress on Medieval Studies, Early Book Society, “The Development of the Cityscape in Late Medieval Flemish Manuscript Illustration,” May 1998. 40. 34th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Societas Magica, “Magic as a Liberal Art,” May1999. 41. Early Book Society, University of Glasgow, “Programs of Illustration in MSS of Les Secretz de la Nature [Merveilles du Monde],” July1999. 42. 35th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Early Book Society, “The Economics of Late Medieval Natural History Illustration,” May 2000. 43.Twenty-Second Annual Medieval Forum, Plymouth State College, Plymouth, NH, “Robinet Testard, Court Illuminator and Fifteenth-Century Botanical Illustration,” April 7, 2001. 44. 36th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Societas Magica, “Chaucer's Canon's Yeoman's Tale and the 'Merda' of Alchemy,” May 2001. 45. Early Book Society, University of Cork, “Illustrating Natural History: The Illustrator's Notes in Valenciennes Municipal Library MS 320 and the Illustrative Tradition of Thomas of Cantimpré's De Natura Rerum,” July 2001. 46. Newberry Library, Seminar on Medieval and Early Modern Magic: “Magic as a Liberal Art,” Sept. 28, 2001. 47. Medieval Association of the Midwest, Madison, Wisconsin, “Illustrating Natural History: Thomas of Cantimpré's Sea Monsters,” September 30, 2001. 48. 38th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Fifteenth Century Studies, “Robinet Testard, Court Illuminator and his Manuscripts,” May 2001. 49. Southeast Medieval Association, Tallahassee, Florida, “Extreme Geography in the Middle Ages: The Test Case of Brittany,’” October 2002.   15   50. Early Book Society, University of Durham, “ Herbals as Fachliteratur: The Case of Brussels, Bibliothèque Royale MS IV.24,” July 2003. 51. Medieval Association of the Midwest, "Costume and Social Realism in the Early Pastourelles,” University of Indianapolis, October 2003. 52. Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, State University of New York at Binghamton: Science, Literature and the Arts in the Medieval and Early Modern World. “The Impact of the Graphic Arts on a Fifteenth-Century French Manuscript Herbal,” October 22-23, 2004. 53. 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Chaucer Sessions “Costume and Affective Physiognomy in the Canon’s Yeoman’s Tale,” May 2005. 54. The Medieval Association of the Midwest, University of Illinois at Springfield, “Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale, Rutebeuf’s ‘Dit de l’Herberie’ and the ‘Dit du Mercier’,” September, 2005. 55. 41st International Congress on Medieval Studies, “The Art of the Exotic: Robinet Testard’s Turbans and Turban-like Coiffure,” DISTAFF, May 2006. 56. 43rd International Congress on Medieval Studies, “Robin Hood and the Social Context of Late Medieval Archery,” Robin Hood Session, May 2008. 57. 44th International Congress on Medieval Studies “Imagined Fashion: Three Fifteenth-Century French Artists and Their Travel-Book Pictures, DISTAFF, May 2009. 58. Early Book Society, Exeter University, “Intertextuality, Chaucer’s Miller’s Tale and Heinrich Wittenwiler’s Der Ring,” July 2009. 59. 47th International Congress on Medieval Studies “The Iconography of Dagged Clothing and its Reception by Moralist Writers,” DISTAFF, 2011. 60. 49th International Conference on Medieval Studies, “Werewolves, Pierre Bersuire, and the Secrets of Natural History,” Early Book Society, May 2013. 61. 50th International Conference on Medieval Studies,“ Dogs in the Identity Formation and Moral Teaching Offered in some 15th-Century Flemish Manuscript Miniatures.” Doggy Deux session, May 2014. 62. There and Back Again: Tolkien in 2015, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, The Ohio State University, “Tolkien’s Medieval Animals,” February 2015. 63. Medieval Association of the Midwest/St. Louis University in Madrid, Madrid, Spain, “Coats and Collars: Fashions for Animals in the Late Middle Ages and Early Modern Period II,” February, 2015. 64. 50th International Conference on Medieval Studies, DISTAFF, “Coats, Collars, and Capes: Royal Fashions for Animals in the Early Modern Period,” May 2015. 65. 51st International Conference on Medieval Studies, “Chaucer’s Merchant’s Tale and Nicole Oresme,” May 2016. 66. 52nd International Conference on Medieval Studies, DISTAFF, “Dressing Monstrous Men: Landsknechte Clothing in Some Early Modern Danish Church Wall Paintings,” May 2017. 67. Inside Out: Dress and Identity in the Middle Ages, Fordham University, “Establishing Cultural Identity through Fashion: The Jewish and Roman Tormentors of Christ in a Polish Devotional Manuscript,” March 17-18, 2018.   16   68. 54th International Conference on Medieval Studies, Round Table on “Hair in the Middle Ages,” May 2019. 69. 55th International Conference on Medieval Studies, DISTAFF (with Melanie Bond), “Fashion Obsolescence in Bosch’s Prado Tabletop of the Seven Deadly Sins,” May 2019.     17