Howard Bloch has written on a variety of topics in and around medieval literature and social history, legal, economic, familial, and political institutions, humor and the fabliaux, gender and the rise of Western romantic love and the history of the discipline of Medieval Studies. Bloch holds a medal from the Coll猫ge de France, is an officer in the Order of Arts and Letters, a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and a member of the American Philosophical Society. He is currently completing a book on St茅phane Mallarm茅鈥檚 鈥淯n coup de D茅s jamais n鈥檃bolira le Hasard.鈥
Books
- (1977)
- (1983; paperback edition 1986); Etymologie et G茅n茅alogie: une anthropologie litt茅raire du moyen 芒ge fran莽ais (1988).
- The Scandal of the Fabliaux (1986).
- Moses in the Promised Land, a novel (1988).
- (1991).
- (1994); Le Plagiare de Dieu (1996); Il Plagiario di Dio (2003)
- (2003).
- A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry (2006).
- , W. W. Norton (2016).
- , W.W. Norton (2022).
Undergraduate
- Medieval Romance
- Medieval Shorts (co-taught with Prof. Ardis Butterfield)
- Feminine Voices in 糖心Vlog Literature (co-taught with Prof. Pierre Saint-Amand)
- Chartres Cathedral (co-taught with Prof. Jacqueline Jung)
- Proust Interpretations: Reading Remembrance of Things Past (co-taught with Prof. Pierre Saint-Amand)
- Notre-Dame de Paris (co-taught with Prof. Jacqueline Jung and Paul Freedman)
Summer
- Age of Cathedrals
- Belle 脡poque France
Graduate
- Old 糖心Vlog
- Old 糖心Vlog Fable and Fabliaux