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Ghosh, Dr Kantik
Job Title: CUF Lecturer and Tutorial Fellow
College: Trinity
Period/ Subject: Medieval
Email address: kantik.ghosh@ell.ox.ac.uk
Research Interests:
I am currently engaged in two, partly interrelated, research projects. The first relates to English religious and intellectual history in the first half of the 15th century, in the putative aftermath of the Wycliffite controversies and (in contemporary orthodox perception) their continental progeny, centred in Bohemia, but getting a high-profile international airing at the Councils of Constance and Basel.
The second emerges out of an interdisciplinary research project on the subject of ‘Uncertain Knowledge in the Middle Ages’. This project, partly funded by the British Academy and partly by Cambridge University, brings together philosophers, historians and literary scholars from the UK, the US and continental Europe with the intention of stimulating methodological dialogue between scholars who work in adjacent disciplines, especially medieval philosophy and cultural and literary history. (My co-organisers are Mishtooni Bose, Rita Copeland, Dallas Denery and Nicolette Zeeman). A volume of essays arising out of the project is due to be submitted to Brepols in 2012. What unites my work in these areas is an interest in the changing landscape of ‘scholastic’ enquiry into logico-linguistic and theological matters at a time of increasing porosity between the domains of academic speculative thought and extramural religio-political controversy. Part of what I am focusing on is the development of forms of scepticism in response to wide-ranging engagement with the nature of religious or scriptural truth at a time when ‘heresy’ (both within and without the university-world) became the (seemingly ever-burgeoning) pan-European socio-cultural problem.
Teaching Areas:
I teach undergraduate papers in Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, Shakespeare, and in the English Language, and contribute to teaching courses / supervision of graduates for the M. St. (650-1500), M. Phil. and D. Phil.
Recent Publications:
‘“The Fift Quheill”: Gavin Douglas’s Maffeo Vegio’, The Scottish Literary Journal 22 (1995), 5-21; 'Eliding the Interpreter: John Wyclif and Scriptural Truth’, New Medieval Literatures 2 (1998), 205-24; 'Contingency and the Christian Faith: William Woodford’s anti-Wycliffite Hermeneutics’, Poetica 49 (1998), 1-26; 'Manuscripts of Nicholas Love’s The Mirror of the Blessed Life of Jesus Christ and Wycliffite Notions of Authority’ in Prestige, Authority and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts ed. Felicity Riddy (York: York Medieval Press, 2000), pp. 17-34; The Wycliffite Heresy: Authority and the Interpretation of Texts, Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature 45 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2002; p/back 2009); ‘Nicholas Love’ in A Companion to Middle English Prose, ed. A S G Edwards (Cambridge: D S Brewer, 2004), pp. 53-66; ‘Bishop Reginald Pecock and the Idea of “Lollardy”’ in Text and Controversy from Wyclif to Bale: Essays in Honour of Anne Hudson, ed. Helen Barr and Anne Hutchison (Turnhout: Brepols, 2005), pp. 251-65; ‘Logic and Lollardy’, Medium Aevum 76 (2007), 251-67; ‘Wycliffism and Lollardy’, in The Cambridge History of Christianity vol. IV: Christianity in Western Europe 1000-1500, ed. Miri Rubin and Walter Simons (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 433-45; ‘Wycliffite “Affiliations”: Some Intellectual-Historical Contexts’, in Mishtooni Bose and Patrick Hornbeck (eds), The Wycliffite Controversies (Turnhout: Brepols; 2011), pp. 13-32; After Arundel: Religious Writing in Fifteenth Century England, ed. Vincent Gillespie and Kantik Ghosh, Medieval Church Studies 21 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2011); 'Wyclif, Arundel and the Long Fifteenth Century' in After Arundel, ed. Gillespie and Ghosh (2011), pp. 545-62; 'University-Learning, Theological Method and Heresy in Fifteenth-Century England', in Situating Religious Controversy: Textual Transmission
and Networks of Readership, 1378-1536, ed. Michael Van Dussen and Pavel Soukup (Turnhout:
Brepols; forthcoming); Uncertain Knowledge in the Middle Ages, ed. by Mishtooni Bose, Rita Copeland, Dallas Denery, Kantik Ghosh and Nicolette Zeeman (forthcoming); 'Logic, Scepticism and Heresy in Early 15th Century Europe: Oxford, Vienna, Constance', forthcoming in Uncertain Knowledge, ed. Bose et al.
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