Ryan McDermott

Ryan McDermott tries to bridge the divide between medieval and modern worlds. His first book, Words into Works: Literary Ethics and Tropological Imagination in England, c. 1350-1600, tracks changes and continuities in vernacular religious literature across the intellectual and cultural watershed of the English Reformation. A second book project, The Drama of Vernacular Theology: The Bible, Literature, and the Origins of Modernity, complicates influential narratives that locate the origins of modernity in late-medieval intellectual developments. More on both these projects, and a current CV, may be found on his Academia.edu page.

 

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