Paul Holzworth Strohm
Paul Holzworth Strohm (born July 30, 1938 in Chicago ) is an American linguist.
Life
He received a Bachelor of Arts from Amherst College in 1960 , a Master of Arts from the University of California, Berkeley in 1962 and a doctorate in philosophy there in 1965. In 1999 Strohm received a Masters of Arts from Oxford University. From 1973 to 1998 he taught as a professor at Indiana University Bloomington . From 1998 to 2003 he was the JRR Tolkien Professor of English Literature and Language at the University of Oxford . From 2003 to 2010 he was Anna Garbedian Professor of the Humanities at Columbia University .
His main interest is medieval literature with an emphasis on transitions from medieval to early modern .
Fonts (selection)
- Social Chaucer . Cambridge 1989, ISBN 0-674-81198-4 .
- Hochon's arrow. The social imagination of fourteenth-century texts . Princeton 1992, ISBN 0-691-06880-1 .
- England's empty throne. Usurpation and the language of legitimation, 1399-1422 . New Haven 1998, ISBN 0-300-07544-8 .
- Theory and the premodern text . Minneapolis 2000, ISBN 0-8166-3774-1 .
- Politique. Languages of statecraft between Chaucer and Shakespeare . Notre Dame 2005, ISBN 0-268-04113-X .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Strohm, Paul Holzworth |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Strohm, Paul; Strohm, Paul H. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American linguist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 30, 1938 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Chicago |