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Prof Ian Johnson

Professor of Medieval Literature

Phone

+44 (0)1334 46 2681

Email

irj@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 302

Location

Kennedy Hall

 

Biography

Ian Johnson is Professor of Medieval Literature and a member of the Institute of Mediaeval Studies.He was Co-Director of the Queen’s Belfast-¾«¶«´«Ã½ AHRC-funded project  (2007-11). With Alastair Minnis he edited The Cambridge History of Literary Criticism: Volume II. The Middle Ages (2005; pbk 2009; Arabic edn 2016), and has published widely on Middle English literature, with particular interests in Latin and vernacular traditions of medieval literary theory and conceptions and practices of translation, as well as devotional literature, Geoffrey Chaucer, and miscellaneous textuality. He is founding General Editor of The Mediaeval Journal (Brepols) and was for many years General Editor of Forum for Modern Language Studies (OUP). His latest books areThe Middle English Life of Christ: Academic Discourse, Translation and Vernacular Theology (Brepols, 2013); The Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ: Exploring the Middle English Tradition, edited with Allan Westphall (Brepols, 2013); The Impact of Latin Culture on Medieval and Early Modern Scottish Writing, edited with Alessandra Petrina (Medieval Institute Publications, 2018), and Geoffrey Chaucer In Context, (Cambridge University Press, 2019). He was a Working Group Coordinator and Management Committee member of the EU-funded COST Action New Communities of Interpretation: Contexts, Strategies and Processes of Religious Transformation in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe. Currently he is working on a study of the translation of Boethius’s De consolatione philosophiae in late medieval England and Scotland.

Research areas

Old and Middle English literature and medieval literary thought.

Selected publications

• Open access
  Johnson, I. R., 1 Jun 2025, The power of words in late medieval devotional and mystical writing: essays in honour of Denis Renevey. Critten, R. G. & Vuille, J. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 331-347 (Medieval church studies; vol. 46).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Johnson, I. R., 19 Jun 2023, Chaucer encyclopedia. Newhauser, D., Gillespie , V., Rosenfeld, J. & Walter, K. (eds.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 227-231 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Johnson, I. R., 19 Jun 2023, Chaucer encyclopedia. Newhauser, D., Gillespie, V., Rosenfeld, J. & Walter, K. (eds.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell, p. 231-232 2 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Entry for encyclopedia/dictionary

• Johnson, I. R., 1 Feb 2023, Religious transformations in new communities of interpretation in Europe (1350-1570) : bridging the historiographical divides. Johnson, I. & Boillet, É. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 11-20 10 p. (New communities of interpretation; vol. 3).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

• Butterfield, A. (Editor), Johnson, I. R. (Editor) & Kraebel, A. (Editor), 20 Apr 2023, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 321 p.

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Butterfield, A., Johnson, I. R. & Kraebel, A., 20 Apr 2023, Literary theory and criticism in the later Middle Ages: interpretation, invention, imagination: essays in honour of Alastair Minnis. Butterfield, A., Johnson, I. & Kraebel, A. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. xi-xv 5 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Johnson, I. R. (Editor) & Boillet, É. (Editor), 17 Feb 2023, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 273 p. (New communities of interpretation; vol. 3)

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology

• Johnson, I. R., 20 Apr 2023, Literary theory and criticism in the later Middle Ages: interpretation, invention, imagination: essays in honour of Alastair Minnis. Butterfield, A., Johnson, I. & Kraebel, A. B. (eds.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, p. 137-158 22 p.

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access
  Johnson, I. R. & Rodrigues, A. M., 1 Jan 2022, Religious practices and everyday life in the long fifteenth century (1350-1570): interpreting changes and changes of interpretation. Johnson, I. & Rodrigues, A. M. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, p. 13-19 7 p. (New communities of interpretation; vol. 2).

  Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter (peer-reviewed) › peer-review

• Open access
  Johnson, I. R. (Editor) & Rodrigues, A. M. (Editor), 1 Jan 2022, Turnhout: Brepols Publishers. 418 p. (New communities of interpretation; vol. 2)

  Research output: Book/Report › Anthology