Eric Jager

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Eric Jager is a professor in the department of English at University of California, Los Angeles. He received his B.A. from Calvin College in 1979 and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987. He has also taught at Columbia University.

He specializes in Anglo-Saxon literature (particularly Beowulf), as well as in Medieval authors such as Chaucer.

[edit] Select Bibliography

• The Last Duel : A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France, 2005
• The Book of the Heart, 2000
• The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature, 1993

[edit] External links

• The Last Duel website
• The Book of the Heart in Late Medieval Piety
• Powells Essay
• NPR interview
• Calvin College alumni magazine