Christopher A. Jones
Christopher Andrew Jones is an American medievalist .
Life
He earned a BA in English and Religion from the University of the South in 1988 , an MA in the Department of English from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1990 with concentrations in Medieval English and Early American Literature, and a Ph.D. 1995 at the Center for Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto with a focus on Medieval English and Anglo-Latin (Dissertation: Ælfric's Letter to the Monks of Eynsham: A Study of the Text and its Sources ). From 2004 to 2005 he was Professor of English at the University of Notre Dame . He has been Professor of English at Ohio State University since 2005 .
He conducts research in the fields of early medieval languages, literatures, and history with particular interests in ancient English, medieval Latin, manuscript studies, liturgical history, and monastic culture.
Fonts (selection)
- Ælfric's letter to the monks of Eynsham . Cambridge 1998, ISBN 0-521-63011-8 .
- A lost work by Amalarius of Metz. Interpolations in Salisbury, Cathedral Library, MS. 154 . Woodbridge 2001, ISBN 1-870252-14-4 .
- Old English shorter poems. Religious and didactic . Cambridge 2012, ISBN 0-674-05789-9 .
- with Scott G. Bruce (ed.): The Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus. A twelfth-century Cluniac poem on prayer for the dead . Turnhout 2016, ISBN 978-2-503-56827-0 .
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| SURNAME | Jones, Christopher A. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jones, Christopher Andrew |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American medievalist and university professor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 20th century |