Geb. 1960, Professor - Emeritiert / im Ruhestand, #Birmingham, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Fachgebiet) - German language; Middle High German language and literature; Reformation studies (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Birmingham - Department of Modern Languages, Ashley Building, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT

Forschungsgebiete

• #Hochmittelalter
• #Spätmittelalter
• #Frühe Neuzeit (Humanismus, Renaissance, Barock, Aufklärung)

Besondere Forschungsgebiete Literature of the High and Later Middle Ages; the Swiss Reformation

Monographien

• The Latin and German 'Etymachia' (1994)
• The Light of the Soul: The 'Lumen anime C' and Ulrich Putsch's 'Das liecht der sel' (2007)
• (with Joel Love) Dialogue and Disputation in the Zurich #Reformation: Utz Eckstein's 'Concilium' and 'Rychsztag' (2013)
• The Shorter Writings of Ulrich Putsch: 'Diarium', 'Oraciones super missam', 'Manuale simplicium sacerdotum' (2013)
• The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives (2020)
• (with Sharon van Dijk) The Correspondence of Zwingli and Oecolampadius (2025)

Aufsätze und Beiträge

• Animal Symbolism in Late Medieval Germany: The 'Etymachia' Treatise, in Tiersymbolik (ed. P. Michel) (1991)
• 'Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum': The Problem of Violence, in The Narrative Fiction of #Heinrich Böll (ed. M. Butler) (1994)
• The Presentation of Clerical Characters in the 'Vie du pape Saint Grégoire' and in Hartmann's 'Gregorius' (MAe, 1995)
• Teaching Böll's 'Katharina Blum' (GT, 1995)
• 'gar süezen smac daz pantir hât'. Der Panther und sein Atem in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Mittelalters, in #Natur und Kultur in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters (ed. A. Robertshaw, G. Wolf) (1999)
• 'Noch im Untergang triumphiert die Liebe' - or does it? Günter de Bruyn's Nacherzählung of the Medieval #Tristan Legend, in Günter de Bruyn in Perspective (ed. D. Tate) (1999)
• #Willehalm and Puzzât, Guillelme and Baucent: The Hero and His Horse in Wolfram's '#Willehalm' and in the 'Bataille d'Aliscans', in The Challenge of German Culture (ed. M. Butler, R. Evans) (2000)
• German Studies: Medieval Literature (YWMLS, 2000-2005)
• The Teaching of Medieval German Literature at American Universities (FMLS, 2001)
• Some Observations on the Presentation and Function of Natural Phenomena in '#Willehalm' and in the Old French 'Aliscans', in Wolfram's '#Willehalm' (ed. M. H. Jones, T. McFarland) (2002)