Prof Ian Johnson

Professor of Medieval Literature

Head of School

Researcher profile

Phone

+44 (0)1334 462681

Email

irj@st-andrews.ac.uk

Office

Room 302

Location

Kennedy Hall

Office hours

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-St Andrews AHRC-funded project Geographies of Orthodoxy: Mapping English Pseudo-Bonaventuran Lives of Christ, 1350-1550 (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.

PhD supervision

• Roberta Marangi
• Fabien Troivaux

Selected publications

• Boece

  Johnson, I. R., 2020, (Accepted/In press) The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Newhauser, D., Gillespie, V., Rosenfeld, J. & Walter, K. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell

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

• Boece, Boecius (Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius)

  Johnson, I. R., 2020, (Accepted/In press) The Chaucer Encyclopedia. Newhauser, D., Gillespie, V., Rosenfeld, J. & Walter, K. (eds.). Wiley-Blackwell

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

• Bridging the Historiographical Divides: Religious Transformations in ?New Communities of Interpretation? in Europe (1350-1570)

  Johnson, I. R. (ed.) & Boillet, É. (ed.), 2020, (Accepted/In press) Turnhout: Brepols. (New Communities of Interpretation)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Anthology

• Introduction: Interpreting Changes in Daily Religious Practice in the ?Long Fifteenth Century?

  Johnson, I. R. & Rodrigues, A. M., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Religious Practices and Everyday Life (1350-1570). Johnson, I. & Rodrigues, A. M. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols, (New Communities of Interpretation).

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

• Introduction: Investigating and Reconsidering Medieval and Early Modern Divides and Connections

  Johnson, I. R., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Bridging the Historiographical Divides: Religious Transformations in ?New Communities of Interpretation? in Europe (1350-1570) . Johnson, I. & Boillet, É. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols, (New Communities of Interpretation).

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

• Religious Practices and Everyday Life in the Long Fifteenth Century: Interpreting Change and Continuity in Late Medieval and Early Modern Europe

  Johnson, I. R. (ed.) & Rodrigues, A. M. (ed.), 2020, (Accepted/In press) Turnhout: Brepols. (New Communities of Interpretation)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Anthology

• Rendering Readers' Soulscapes: Variant Translation of Interiority in the Late Medieval English Pseudo-Bonaventuran Tradition

  Johnson, I. R., 2020, (Accepted/In press) "Writen in a grete boke": Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional Traditions: Essays in Honor of Michael G. Sargent. Brown, J. N. & Rice, N. (eds.). Cambridge: Boydell & Brewer

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

• The ?Goostly Chaffare? of Reginald Pecock: Everyday Craft, Commerce, and Custom Meet Syllogistic Polemic in Fifteenth-Century London

  Johnson, I. R., 2020, (Accepted/In press) Religious Practices and Everyday Life (1350-1570). Johnson, I. & Rodrigues, A. M. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols, (New Communities of Interpretation).

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

• Theorizing the miscellaneous and the Middle English biblical paratext 

  Johnson, I. R., Mar 2020, Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England. Renevey, D., Cré, M. & Denissen, D. (eds.). Turnhout: Brepols, p. 83-108 26 p. (Medieval Church Studies; no. 41).

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

• Geoffrey Chaucer in Context

  Johnson, I. R. (ed.), 11 Jul 2019, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 498 p. (Literature in Context)

  Research output: Book/Report ? Anthology

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