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:...See more

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. See less