Publications include (with A. B. Scott) Medieval Literary Theory and Criticism c.1100-c.1375 (OUP, 1988 pb 1991). He is also under contract with OUP for a study of Chaucer's Preachers. Minnis is the General Editor of the Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, published by CUP.
`Minnis is the best equipped of all British medievalists for this
Borgesian task. His extraordinary wide reading in both critical and
contextual masterial is evidence throughout the book. He scores
over his colleagues in the series by his openness and generosity in
acknowledging the importance of the work of, for example, Lee
Patterson and Elaine Tuttle Hansen ... Minnis's open engagement
with recent political criticism is to be commended ... no
intermediate mediaevalist could fail to learn from Minnis's
detailed summaries of, for example, scholastic discussions of
dreams and authorship, or the contribution of French love visions
to Boccaccio's Il Teseida.'
Times Literary Supplement
`He brings to bear a rich and varied background of classical,
medieval, and Renaissance texts as well as literary and social
conventions. The strength of the book lies in its argument that
mutually contradictory threads do not cancel one another out.'
MLR, 92.3, 1997
`no one will fail to find many things which are both stimulating
and perceptive in this volume ... a stimulating introduction to
these poems'
N.F. Blake, RES New Series, Vol. XLVIII, No. 190 (1997)
`An important volume that most libraries and many individual
Chaucerians will want to purchase ... a delightful tribute to
Alastair Minnis's long devotion to medieval studies.'
Speculum - A Journal of Medieval Studies
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