James H. Morey

James H. Morey is an American academic. He is a professor of English at Emory University teaching courses in Old and Middle English, including Chaucer.[1]

Morey is a graduate of Hamilton College (A.B. 1983). He holds a Master's (1987) and a Ph.D. (1990) from Cornell University and received a Fulbright Scholarship to Iceland (1987–88).[2]

Morey's Book and Verse is regarded as the standard work on English Biblical paraphrases.[3][4][5] In it, Morey argues that Biblical material was widely available in English from the 12th-century on, and that the Church's opposition was not to translation per se but to the Lollard encouragement of lay interpretation of the Bible.[6][7]

Books

  • Editor, Jerome's Abbreviated Psalter: The Middle English and Latin Versions, 2019, Amsterdam University Press
  • Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature, 2000, University of Illinois Press
  • Prik of Conscience, 2012, Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications

Publications

  • "The Wycliffites: Hosts or Guests, First Finders or Followers?" in The Wycliffite Bible: Origin, History and Interpretation, ed. Elizabeth Solopova (Brill, 2016): 85–104.
  • "Middle English Didactic Literature," in Readings in Medieval Texts, ed. David F. Johnson and Elaine M. Treharne (Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2005): 183–97.
  • "Plows, Laws, and Sanctuary in Medieval England and in the Wakefield Mactacio Abel," Studies in Philology 95 (1998): 41–55.
  • "The 'cultour' in the Miller's Tale: Alison as Iseult," Chaucer Review 29 (1995): 373–81.
  • "Latimer's 'Sermon on the Plough' and Spenser's Muiopotmos," Notes & Queries ns 42 (1995): 286–88.
  • Peter Comestor, Biblical Paraphrase, and the Medieval Popular Bible," Speculum, vol. 68, no. 1, Jan. 1993, pp. 6–35.

References

  1. ^ "James H. Morey, Professor". english.emory.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14.
  2. ^ "James H. Morey, Professor". english.emory.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-06-14.
  3. ^ Thomas H. Bestul, "Book and Verse." Speculum, Vol. 77, No. 2 (Apr., 2002), pp. 608-610.
  4. ^ Richard K. Emmerson "A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature," The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. 100, No. 4 (Oct., 2001), pp. 574-575.
  5. ^ Sue Powell, Book and Verse: A Guide to Middle English Biblical Literature, The Modern Language Review, Vol. 98, No. 2 (Apr., 2003), pp. 418-420.
  6. ^ Jameela Lares, "Book and Verse," Church History, Vol. 71, No. 3 (Sep., 2002), p. 651,
  7. ^ Approaching medieval English anchoritic and mystical texts Christianity and culture, Dee Dyas, Valerie Edden, Roger Ellis, DS Brewer, 2005, p. 48.