Edwin Craun

Edwin Craun

Edwin Craun

Professor of English Emeritus

Education

  • Ph.D., Princeton University

Research

  • Medieval literature
  • Justice and law in Medieval and Renaissance literature
  • Virtues and vices
  • Social reform in the Middle Ages

Professor Craun’s research has been supported by a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship for College Teachers (2003), a Jessie Ball Dupont Fellowship, National Humanities Center (2002-3), and a Huntington Library/British Academy Fellowship for Study in Great Britain (2002).

Selected Publications

Books

  • William Peraldus, Summa de Vitiis, ed. and trans. by Siegfried Wenzel, Richard Newhauser, Bridget Balint, and Edwin Craun, under contract at Oxford University Press (3 vols.).

  • Ethics and Power in Medieval English Reformist Writing. Cambridge University Press, 2010.

  • Editor and contributor. The Hands of the Tongue: Essays on Deviant Speech. Kalamazoo: Medieval Institute Publications, 2007.

  • Lies, Slander and Obscenity in Medieval English Literature: Pastoral Rhetoric and the Deviant Speaker. Cambridge University Press, 1997.

Recent Articles

  • "The Imperatives of Denunciatio": Disclosing Others’ Sins to Disciplinary Authorities,” in Imagining Inquisition in England,  1215-1550, ed. Mary Flannery and Katie Walter. Westfield Medieval Studies 4. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2013.

  • "Aristotle’s Biology and Pastoral Ethics: John of Wales’ De lingua and British Pastoral Writing on the Tongue.” Traditio 67 (2012), 277-303.

  • "Wycliffism and Slander.” Wycliffite Controversies. Ed. Patrick Hornbeck and Mishtooni Bose. Turnhout: Brepols, 2012. 227-42.

  • "’It is a freletee of flessh’: Excuses for Sin, Pastoral Rhetoric, and Moral Agency” in In the Garden of Evil: The Vices and Culture in the Middle Ages, ed. Richard Newhauser. Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Press, 2007. 33-60.

  • "’Fama’ and Pastoral Constraints on Rebuking Sin: ‘The Book of Margery Kempe’.” Fama: The Politics of Talk and Reputation in Medieval Europe. Ed. Thelma Fenster and Daniel Small. Cornell University Press, 2003.

  • "Lewte and the Practice of Fraternal Correction.” Yearbook of Langland Studies 15 (2001): 15-25.