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    James Simpson

    James Simpson (Ph.D. Cambridge), The Middle Ages, is Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. An Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he is the author of Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text; Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry; Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350–1547; Volume 2 of The Oxford English Literary History; Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents; and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition. With Brian Cummings, he edited Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, and with Sarah Peverley John Hardyng’s Chronicle. His Reynard the Fox: A New Translation appeared in 2015.

    James Simpson

    James Simpson (Ph.D. Cambridge), The Middle Ages, is Douglas P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University and former Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English at the University of Cambridge. An Honorary Fellow of the Australian Academy of the Humanities, he is the author of Piers Plowman: An Introduction to the B-Text; Sciences and the Self in Medieval Poetry; Reform and Cultural Revolution, 1350–1547; Volume 2 of The Oxford English Literary History; Burning to Read: English Fundamentalism and Its Reformation Opponents; and Under the Hammer: Iconoclasm in the Anglo-American Tradition. With Brian Cummings, he edited Cultural Reformations: Medieval and Renaissance in Literary History, and with Sarah Peverley John Hardyng’s Chronicle. His Reynard the Fox: A New Translation appeared in 2015.

    Books by James Simpson

    • Reynard the Fox: A New Translation

      James Simpson, Stephen Greenblatt

      Hardback, 2015

      Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.

    • Reynard the Fox: A New Translation

      James Simpson, Stephen Greenblatt

      E Book, 2015

      Like Seamus Heaney's Beowulf, this new translation of a classic promises to revive one of the greatest characters of medieval literature.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Julie Crawford, James Noggle, James Simpson

      Shorter Eleventh Edition, Volume 1, Paperback, 2024

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Crawford, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, James Simpson, Katharine Eisaman Maus, James Noggle

      Eleventh Edition, Package 1: Volumes A, B, C, Paperback, 2024

      A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature

      Stephen Greenblatt, Rachel Ablow, Julie Crawford, Eric Eisner, Julie Orlemanski, Courtney Weiss Smith, Tiffany Stern, Aarthi Vadde, Deidre Shauna Lynch, Catherine Robson, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Jahan Ramazani, James Noggle, James Simpson

      Shorter Eleventh Edition, Volumes 1 & 2, Paperback, 2024

      A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages through the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

      Stephen Greenblatt, James Simpson, Julie Orlemanski, Tiffany Stern, Katharine Eisaman Maus, Julie Crawford, James Noggle, Courtney Weiss Smith

      Eleventh Edition, Volumes A, B, & C, E Book

      A sweeping revision that speaks to how English literature is taught today.

    • The Norton Anthology of English Literature: The Middle Ages

      Stephen Greenblatt, Julie Orlemanski, James Simpson

      Eleventh Edition, Volume A, Paperback, 2024

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