John Block Friedman

John Block Friedman is emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought, Orpheus in the Middle Ages, and Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages, all published by Syracuse University Press. He is currently working on an edition and translation of Secrets de l'Histoire Naturelle, a fifteenth-century French collection of geographical wonders.

John Block Friedman is emeritus professor of English at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is the author of The Monstrous Races in Medieval Art and Thought, Orpheus in the Middle Ages, and Northern English Books, Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages, all published by Syracuse University Press. He is currently working on an edition and translation of Secrets de l'Histoire Naturelle, a fifteenth-century French collection of geographical wonders. See less