R. Howard Bloch is an American author and literary critic who has been the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University since 2005. Bloch was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010.
On April 29, 2018, Howard Bloch married Ellen Handler Spitz in a private religious ceremony that took place in their home in Hamden, Connecticut, the former dwelling place of American novelist and playwright Thornton Wilder, who built the house with the proceeds from his novel The Bridge of San Luis Rey.
Bibliography Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages (University of Chicago Press, 1986) The Scandal of the Fabliaux (University of Chicago Press, 1986) Moses in the Promised Land (1988) editor, Misogyny, Misandry, and Misanthropy (University of California Press, 1989) Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (University of Chicago Press, 1991) God’s Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne (University of Chicago Press, 1994) The Anonymous Marie de France (University of Chicago Press, 2003) A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry (Random House, 2006) One Toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made Us Modern (2016) Paris and Her Cathedrals (2022)
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