Richard Firth Green

Richard Firth Green is a Canadian scholar who specializes in Middle English literature. He is a Humanities Distinguished Professor of English Emeritus at Ohio State University and author of three monographs on the social life, law, and literature of the late Middle English period.

Green's first book, Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages, studies "business of reading and writing at court",[1] as "a social and a literary history" of the life of men of letters at the English courts of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries.[2][3][4] One of the points argued in the book is that an appointment as court poet also involved important administrative responsibilities, which could be more important than producing poetry: "he was a civil servant first and a poet second".[5] His second book is A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England (1998), which Derek Pearsall praised in 2004 as "the best book that has been written on medieval English literature in the last ten years".[6] In A Crisis of Truth, a "monumental, encyclopedic volume",[7] Green analyzes the shift in the meaning of the word and concept of truth during the reign of Richard II of England; this transformation changes "an ethical truth in which truth is understood to reside in persons transforms...into a political truth in which truth is understood to reside in documents"[8] or, in Pearsall's summary, from a subjective to an objective concept.[6]

Books authored
  • Poets and Princepleasers: Literature and the English Court in the Late Middle Ages (1980)
  • A Crisis of Truth: Literature and Law in Ricardian England (U of Pennsylvania P, 1998; repr. 2002)
  • Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church (U of Pennsylvania P, 2016)
gollark: 1000 prizes are awarded. TJ08 gets 940.
gollark: ~~you can probably check archive.org for previously available stuff~~
gollark: ~~you can't read this secret text~~
gollark: If each only has to report a bit of information about their dragon, you'll get loads of data about what you're studying.
gollark: The best way would probably be just to do massive studies with participation from a bunch of people.

References
  1. Houghton, Helen S. (1984). "Rev. of Green, Poets and Princepleasers". Comparative Literature. 36 (1): 85–87. doi:10.2307/1770334. JSTOR 1770334.
  2. Schmidt, A. V. C. (1983). "Rev. of Green, Poets and Princepleasers". The Review of English Studies. New Series. 34 (133): 52–53. JSTOR 517157.
  3. Bornstein, Diane (1981). "Rev. of Green, Poets and Princepleasers". Speculum. 56 (4): 874–76. doi:10.2307/2847382. JSTOR 2847382.
  4. Rosenthal, Joel T. (1985). "Kings, Courts, and the Manipulation of Late Medieval Culture and Literature: A Review Article". Comparative Studies in Society and History. 27 (3): 486–93. doi:10.1017/s0010417500011555. JSTOR 178710.
  5. Lenaghan, R. T. (1983). "Chaucer's Circle of Gentlemen and Clerks". The Chaucer Review. 18 (2): 155–60. JSTOR 25093873.
  6. Pearsall, Derek (2004). "Medieval Literature and Historical Enquiry". Modern Language Review. 99 (4): xxxi–xlii. doi:10.2307/3738608. JSTOR 3738608.
  7. Secchi, Gustavo P. (2000). "Rev. of Green, A Crisis of Truth". Albion. 32 (2): 277–79. doi:10.2307/4053778. JSTOR 4053778.
  8. Fowler, Elizabeth (2003). "Rev. of Green, A Crisis of Truth". Speculum. 78 (1): 179–82. doi:10.1017/S0038713400099310. JSTOR 3301477.
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