R. Howard Bloch is an American literary critic currently the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University, and a published author. Bloch was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2010.
Books in order of publication:
Medieval French Literature and Law (1977).
Etymologies and Genealogies: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages (1983; paperback edition 1986).
Etymologie et Généalogie: une anthropologie littéraire du moyen âge français (1988).
The Scandal of the Fabliaux (1986).
Moses in the Promised Land, a novel (1988).
Medieval Misogyny and the Invention of Western Romantic Love (1991).
God’s Plagiarist: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Migne (1994).
Le Plagiare de Dieu (1996).
The Anonymous Marie de France, (2003).
Il Plagiario di Dio (2003).
A Needle in the Right Hand of God: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry (2006).
One toss of the Dice: The Incredible Story of How a Poem Made us Modern, W. W. Norton (2016).
Paris and Her Cathedrals, W.W. Norton (2022).
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