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Ziolkowski, Jan Michael was born on November 17, 1956 in New Haven. Son of Theodore J. and Yetta (Goldstein) Ziolkowski.
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This book studies an extraordinary Latin dialogue with a woman called Jezebel, who is flamboyantly vulgar and irreverent. Ziolkowski first explores medieval attitudes toward the biblical Jezebel. He then sets the poem in the cultural milieu of eleventh-century Normandy. The book contains an edition, a translation, and a copious commentary.
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When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy tale? Is a true fairy tale oral or literary? Or is a fairy tale determined not by style but by content? To answer these and other questions, Jan M. Ziolkowski not only provides a comprehensive overview of the theoretical debates about fairy tale origins but includes an extensive discussion of the relationship of the fairy tale to both the written and oral sources. Ziolkowski offers interpretations of a sampling of the tales in order to sketch the complex connections that existed in the Middle Ages between oral folktales and their written equivalents, the variety of uses to which the writers applied the stories, and the diverse relationships between the medieval texts and the expressions of the same tales in the "classic" fairy tale collections of the nineteenth century. In so doing, Ziolkowski explores stories that survive in both versions associated with, on the one hand, such standards of the nineteenth-century fairy tale as the Brothers Grimm, Hans Christian Andersen, and Carlo Collodi and, on the other, medieval Latin, demonstrating that the literary fairy tale owes a great debt to the Latin literature of the medieval period. Jan M. Ziolkowski is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard University.
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Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing many of these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
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Ziolkowski, Jan Michael was born on November 17, 1956 in New Haven. Son of Theodore J. and Yetta (Goldstein) Ziolkowski.
AB summa cum laude, Princeton University, 1977. Doctor of Philosophy, University Cambridge, England, 1982. Master of Arts (honorary), Harvard University, 1987.
Assistant professor Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1981-1984, John L. Loeb associate professor of the humanities, 1984-1987, professor medieval Latin and comparative literature, 1987—2002, Arthur Kingsley Porter professor medieval Latin, since 2002. Director Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. & Collection, Washington, since 2007.
( When did fairy tales begin? What qualifies as a fairy t...)
(Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating bac...)
(This book studies an extraordinary Latin dialogue with a ...)
President Internationales Mittellateiner Komitee, since 2000. Member Medieval Academy American (councillor 1991-1994), Dante Society of America (councillor since 2004), American Philological Association, Phi Beta Kappa.
Married Elizabeth Ann Hillenius. Children: Saskia Elizabeth, Ada Margaret, Yetta Joy.