Background
Paul Holzworth Strohm was born on July 30, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a son of Paul Holzworth and Catherine Strohm.
Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States
In 1960 Paul Holzworth Strohm received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College.
University of California Berkeley, Berkeley, California, United States
In 1962 Paul Holzworth Strohm obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of California Berkeley, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1965.
University of Oxford, Oxford, England, United Kingdom
In 1999 Paul Holzworth Strohm gained a Master of Arts degree from Oxford University.
(This text analyzes the effect of Chaucer's poetry on his ...)
This text analyzes the effect of Chaucer's poetry on his contemporary readers, examining how he and his audience understood their society and how this is reflected in the works. This book provides a fuller understanding of Chaucer's world and the social implications of literary styles and form.
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1989
(In these seven essays, all recent and most published here...)
In these seven essays, all recent and most published here for the first time, the author examines historical and literary texts from fourteenth-century England. He not only demonstrates the fictionality of narrative and documentary sources, but also argues that these fictions are themselves fully historical. Together the essays institute a dialogue between texts and events that restores historical documents and literary works to their larger environments. Strohm begins by inspecting legal records that accuse Hochon of Liverpool in 1384 of threatening to shoot an arrow at a political adversary urinating against a wall, and shows how the text embodies and interconnects language, social space, and historical interpretation itself. Throughout his analyses, which cover such topics as Chaucer's verses on the accession of Henry IV, Froissart's account of Queen Philippa interceding for the burghers of Calais, and Thomas Usk's accusations against John Northampton, Strohm alerts us to the distortions of textuality itself while challenging our notions of "invented" and "true."
https://www.amazon.com/Hochons-Arrow-Paul-Strohm/dp/0691068801/?tag=2022091-20
1992
(The methods employed by the Lancastrian usurpers in their...)
The methods employed by the Lancastrian usurpers in their attempts to legitimise their dynasty's hold in the English throne included the reburying of the murdered Richard II, the invention of chronicles, prophecies and genealogies, new methods of trial and punishment, the use of spies, and the radical redefinition of treason. Strohm uses both literary and historical analysis to explore this quest for legitimacy, and the importance of symbolic activity to Henry IV and V.
https://www.amazon.com/Englands-Empty-Throne-Usurpation-Legitimation/dp/0300075448/?tag=2022091-20
1998
(Strohm's collection of 13 papers, most published here for...)
Strohm's collection of 13 papers, most published here for the first time, aims to reunite literary theory with the text and proposes a form of 'practical theory' which places the text at the centre of analysis and allows the text a relationship with the outside world. From this refreshing perspective and in well-written and often light-hearted prose, Stohm reassesses works of dissent, notably by Lollards, Chaucerian narrative, chronicles, Shakespearean characterisation and the relationship between medieval studies and psychoanalysis.
https://www.amazon.com/Theory-Premodern-Text-Medieval-Cultures-ebook/dp/B005SOQ9TY/?tag=2022091-20
2000
(Taking points of departure from Quentin Skinner and J. G....)
Taking points of departure from Quentin Skinner and J. G. A. Pocock, Paul Strohm deploys superior powers of textual and linguistic analysis to uncover a 'pre-Machiavellian moment': an historical phase which saw political discourse deployed with unprecedented slipperiness and subtlety; a time when it was thought possible not just to follow Fortune, but to jam her turning wheel. That this should have occurred in the fifteenth century, a period regarded as too dull, tradition-bound, or chaotic for significant discursive innovation, is just one of the surprises of this remarkable book. Little-regarded writers such as Fortescue and Pecock, Whethamstede and Warkworth, emerge as figures of compelling interest; John Lydgate, once dismissed as Chaucer's dullest successor, opens paths to the Mirror for Magistrates and to the heart of Shakespearean history. This book is recommended to scholars and students of medieval and Renaissance history and literature and to all those fascinated by languages of conspiracy, destiny, and government. -David Wallace, University of Pennsylvania.
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2005
(Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it? ...)
Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it? In the West conscience has been relied upon for two thousand years as a judgement that distinguishes right from wrong. It has effortlessly moved through every period division and timeline between the ancient, medieval, and modern. The Romans identified it, the early Christians appropriated it, and Reformation Protestants and loyal Catholics relied upon its advice and admonition. Today it is embraced with equal conviction by non-religious and religious alike. Considering its deep historical roots and exploring what it has meant to successive generations, Paul Strohm highlights why this particularly European concept deserves its reputation as 'one of the prouder Western contributions to human rights and human dignity throughout the world.' Using examples from popular culture including the Disney classic Pinocchio, as well as examples from contemporary politics, he explores the work of thinkers such as Nietzsche, Freud, and Aquinas, to show how and why conscience remains a motivating and important principle in the contemporary world.
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2011
(As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-age...)
As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-aged bureaucrat and sometime poet, living in London and enjoying the perks that came with his close connections to its booming wool trade. When it ended, he was jobless, homeless, out of favour with his friends and living in exile. Such a reversal might have spelled the end of his career; but instead, at the loneliest time of his life, Chaucer made the revolutionary decision to 'maken vertu of necessitee' and keep writing. The result - the Canterbury Tales - was a radically new form of poetry that would make his reputation, bring him to a national audience, and preserve his work for posterity. In The Poet's Tale, Paul Strohm brings Chaucer's world to vivid life, from the streets and taverns of crowded medieval London to rural seclusion in Kent, and reveals this crucial year as a turning point in the fortunes of England's most important poet.
https://www.amazon.com/Poets-Tale-Chaucer-Canterbury-Tales/dp/1781250596/?tag=2022091-20
2014
(At the beginning of 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer - lauded today...)
At the beginning of 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer - lauded today as the father of English literature - was a middle-aged Londoner with a modest bureaucratic post; his literary successes had been confined to a small audience of intimate friends. But by year’s end, he was swept up in a series of disastrous events that would ultimately leave him jobless, homeless, separated from his wife, and exiled in the countryside of Kent. Unbroken by these worldly reversals, Chaucer pursued a new life in art. In this highly accessible social history, Paul Strohm, one of the finest medievalists of our time, vividly recreates the bustle of everyday life in fourteenth-century London while he unveils the fascinating story behind Chaucer’s journey from personal crisis to rebirth as the immortal poet of The Canterbury Tales.
https://www.amazon.com/Chaucers-Tale-1386-Road-Canterbury/dp/0143127837/?tag=2022091-20
2014
Paul Holzworth Strohm was born on July 30, 1938 in Chicago, Illinois, United States. He is a son of Paul Holzworth and Catherine Strohm.
In 1960 Paul Holzworth Strohm received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College. In 1962 he obtained a Master of Arts degree from the University of California-Berkeley, and a Doctor of Philosophy degree in 1965. In 1999 Strohm gained a Master of Arts degree from Oxford University.
From 1965 to 1968 Paul Holzworth Strohm was an assistant professor of English at Indiana University, Bloomington, an associate professor of English from 1968 to 1973, and also was appointed a professor of English in 1973. From 1975 to 1976 he was an executive secretary of the Faculty Council and a chair of the English Department from 1978 to 1983 in this educational institution.
From 1986 to 1987 Strohm served as the Margaret Bundy Scott Visiting Professor at Williams College. In 1999 he was appointed the J.R.R. Tolkien Professor of English at Oxford University. In 2003 he joined the Columbia University faculty. His area of principal interest is medieval literature with a recent emphasis on transitions from "medieval" to "early modern." His teaching and research have concerned the "affiliated text," with special attention to textuality and history and to genre and social change.
His publications include: Social Chaucer, Hochon’s Arrow: The Social Imagination of Fourteenth-Century Texts, England’s Empty Throne: Usurpation and Textual Legitimation, 1399-1422, Theory and the Premodern Text, Politique: Languages of Statecraft Between Chaucer and Shakespeare, etc.
(The methods employed by the Lancastrian usurpers in their...)
1998(Strohm's collection of 13 papers, most published here for...)
2000(At the beginning of 1386, Geoffrey Chaucer - lauded today...)
2014(As the year 1386 began, Geoffrey Chaucer was a middle-age...)
2014(This text analyzes the effect of Chaucer's poetry on his ...)
1989(Where does our conscience come from? How reliable is it? ...)
2011(In these seven essays, all recent and most published here...)
1992(This book contains one hundred autobiographical stories.)
2012(Taking points of departure from Quentin Skinner and J. G....)
2005Paul Holzworth Strohm is a member of the Modem Language Association and the Medieval Academy of America.
In 1960 Paul Holzworth Strohm married Jean Sprowl. They have two children: Jacob Sprowl and John Poole. In 1977 they divorced. In 2008 he married second time.