Nigel Wallace HARRIS

Geb. 1960, Professor, Birmingham, Großbritannien/Nordirland

Ältere deutsche Literaturwissenschaft (Fachgebiet) - German language; Middle High German language and literature; Renaissance and Reformation studies (Lehrgebiet)

Kontaktinformationen:

University of Birmingham - Department of Modern Languages, Ashley Building, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT

Andere dienstliche Anschrift University of Birmingham - Department of Modern Languages, Ashley Building, Edgbaston, Birmingham, B15 2TT

Forschungsgebiete

Besondere Forschungsgebiete Literature of the High and Later Middle Ages; the Swiss Reformation

Monographien

The Latin and German 'Etymachia' (1994)
The Light of the Soul: The 'Lumen anime C' and Ulrich Putsch's 'Das liecht der sel' (2007)
(with Joel Love) Dialogue and Disputation in the Zurich Reformation: Utz Eckstein's 'Concilium' and 'Rychsztag' (2013)
The Shorter Writings of Ulrich Putsch: 'Diarium', 'Oraciones super missam', 'Manuale simplicium sacerdotum' (2013)
The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First-Century Perspectives (2020)

Aufsätze und Beiträge

Animal Symbolism in Late Medieval Germany: The 'Etymachia' Treatise, in Tiersymbolik (ed. P. Michel) (1991)
'Die verlorene Ehre der Katharina Blum': The Problem of Violence, in The Narrative Fiction of Heinrich Böll (ed. M. Butler) (1994)
The Presentation of Clerical Characters in the 'Vie du pape Saint Grégoire' and in Hartmann's 'Gregorius' (MAe, 1995)
Teaching Böll's 'Katharina Blum' (GT, 1995)
'gar süezen smac daz pantir hât'. Der Panther und sein Atem in der deutschsprachigen Literatur des Mittelalters, in Natur und Kultur in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters (ed. A. Robertshaw, G. Wolf) (1999)
'Noch im Untergang triumphiert die Liebe' - or does it? Günter de Bruyn's Nacherzählung of the Medieval Tristan Legend, in Günter de Bruyn in Perspective (ed. D. Tate) (1999)
Willehalm and Puzzât, Guillelme and Baucent: The Hero and His Horse in Wolfram's 'Willehalm' and in the 'Bataille d'Aliscans', in The Challenge of German Culture (ed. M. Butler, R. Evans) (2000)
German Studies: Medieval Literature (YWMLS, 2000-2005)
The Teaching of Medieval German Literature at American Universities (FMLS, 2001)

Some Observations on the Presentation and Function of Natural Phenomena in 'Willehalm' and in the Old French 'Aliscans', in Wolfram's 'Willehalm' (ed. M. H. Jones, T. McFarland) (2002)
Tiersymbolik in der Geschichte des Christentums (Theologische Realenzyklopädie, 32) (2002)
God, Religion, and Ambiguity in Tristan, in A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg's 'Tristan' (ed. W. Hasty) (2003)
(with R. Newhauser) Visuality and Moral Culture in the Late Middle Ages: The Emblematic Conflictus and Its Literary Representatives, in In the Garden of Evil (ed. R. Newhauser) (2005)
Didactic Poetry, in German Literature of the High Middle Ages (ed. W. Hasty) (2006)
Animals and Exile in the 'Ecbasis cuiusdam captivi', in Fauna and Flora in the Middle Ages (ed. S. Hartmann) (2007)
The Camel: Perspectives and Meanings in Medieval Literature in Flora and Fauna in the Middle Ages (2007)
Der Pfau bei Konrad von Megenberg - und anderswo, in Konrad von Megenberg (1307-1374): Ein spätmittelalterlicher Enzyklopädist im europäischen Kontext (ed. E. Feistner) (2010)
'Das es teutsche zung vernimpt': Zur Uebersetzungsliteratur Tirols um 1400 (GLL, 2013)
Monsters, Pictures and Translations. Some Observations on the Reception of Virgil in the Sixteenth Century, in The Reception of Classical Antiquity in German Literature (ed. K. Fleming, A. Simon) (2013)
Hans Vintler, Ulrich Putsch, Michel Velser und die Tiroler Übersetzungsliteratur um 1400, in Hans Vintler: ‘Die Blumen der Tugend’ (1411): Symposium nach 600 Jahren (ed. M. Siller) (2015)
‘Gesta Romanorum’. A New Translation by Christopher Stace with an Introduction by Nigel Harris (2016)
Salzburg, in Europe: A Literary History 1348-1418 (ed. D. Wallace) (2016)
Lehren und Bilden in den Schriften eines mittelalterlichen “Machtmenschen”: Bischof Ulrich II. Putsch von Brixen, in Lehren, Lernen und Bilden in der deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters. XXIII. Anglo-German Colloquium (ed. H. Laehnemann et al.) (2017)
Heinrich von Burgeis in komparatistischer Sicht: Der ‘Seelenrat’, 'L’Omme pecheur' und 'Everyman’, in Heinrich von Burgeis: 'Der Seele Rat'. Symposium zu einem hochmittelalterlichen Predigermönch (ed. E.de Felip-Jaud, M.Siller) (2018)
The Lion in Medieval Western Europe: Toward an Interpretive History (Traditio, 2021)
Pride, Popes and Vows: Some Medieval Representations of the Peacock' (MLR, 2022)

Herausgebertätigkeit

(with W. Williams-Krapp) 'Etymachie-Traktat'. Ein Todsündentraktat in der katechetischen Sammelhandschrift Augsburg Cod.fol.160. (1995)
(with J. Sayner) The Text and its Context. Studies in Modern German Literature and Society Presented to Ronald Speirs on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday (2008)

Zusätzliche Kurzinformationen BA (Birmingham), DPhil (Oxon)

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