Jan Ziolkowski

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin
On leave spring 2026
Jan Ziolkowski
Boylston 216
617.496.6062
jmziolk@fas.harvard.edu
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Research interests: Medieval literature, especially narrative and Latin; education (grammar, rhetoric, and dialectic), poetics, and literary criticism and theory in the Middle Ages; folktales and popular culture in medieval sources, especially Latin; Latin-vernacular relations
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Ziolkowski, Jan, and Ronald Pepin, eds. 2023. Miracles of the Virgin. Tract on Abuses. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, and Ronald Pepin, eds. 2023. Miracles of the Virgin. Tract on Abuses. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2023. A Commentary on Nigel of Canterbury’s Miracles of the Virgin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2023. A Commentary on Nigel of Canterbury’s Miracles of the Virgin. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, and Bridget K. Balint, eds. 2007. A Garland of Latin Satire, Wisdom, and History: Verse from Twelfth-Century France (Carmina Houghtoniensia). Houghton Library Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, and Bridget K. Balint, eds. 2007. A Garland of Latin Satire, Wisdom, and History: Verse from Twelfth-Century France (Carmina Houghtoniensia). Houghton Library Studies. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 1985. Alan of Lille’s Grammar of Sex: The Meaning of Grammar to a Twelfth-Century Intellectual. Speculum Anniversary Monographs. Cambridge, MA: The Medieval Academy of America.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 1985. Alan of Lille’s Grammar of Sex: The Meaning of Grammar to a Twelfth-Century Intellectual. Speculum Anniversary Monographs. Cambridge, MA: The Medieval Academy of America.
Ziolkowski, Jan, and Edoardo D’Angelo, eds. 2014. Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris: Author and Authorship in Medieval Latin Literature. MediEVI. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo.
Ziolkowski, Jan, and Edoardo D’Angelo, eds. 2014. Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris: Author and Authorship in Medieval Latin Literature. MediEVI. Florence: SISMEL Edizioni del Galluzzo.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 2015. Dante and Islam. Dante’s World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento. New York: Fordham University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 2015. Dante and Islam. Dante’s World: Historicizing Literary Cultures of the Due and Trecento. New York: Fordham University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 2014. Dante and the Greeks. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Humanities. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Publications.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 2014. Dante and the Greeks. Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Humanities. Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks Publications.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2007. Fairy Tales From Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Past of Wonderful Lies. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2007. Fairy Tales From Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Past of Wonderful Lies. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1989. Jezebel: A Norman Latin Poem of the Early Eleventh Century. Humana Civilitas: Studies and Sources Relating to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, and Paris: Peter Lang.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1989. Jezebel: A Norman Latin Poem of the Early Eleventh Century. Humana Civilitas: Studies and Sources Relating to the Middle Ages and the Renaissance . New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, and Paris: Peter Lang.
Ziolkowski, Jan, trans. 2008. Letters of Peter Abelard, Beyond the Personal. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, trans. 2008. Letters of Peter Abelard, Beyond the Personal. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1994. Nigel of Canterbury, The Passion of St. Lawrence, Epigrams, and Marginal Poems. Mittellateinische Studien Und Texte. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1994. Nigel of Canterbury, The Passion of St. Lawrence, Epigrams, and Marginal Poems. Mittellateinische Studien Und Texte. Leiden: E. J. Brill.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1986. Nigel of Canterbury. Miracles of the Virgin Mary, in Verse. Miracula Sancte Dei Genitricis Marie, Uersifice. Toronto Medieval Latin Texts. Toronto: Published for the Centre for Medieval Studies by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1986. Nigel of Canterbury. Miracles of the Virgin Mary, in Verse. Miracula Sancte Dei Genitricis Marie, Uersifice. Toronto Medieval Latin Texts. Toronto: Published for the Centre for Medieval Studies by the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2024. Nostalgia and the German(ic) Past: The Medieval Poem of Walthare. Mediävistische Perspektiven. Vol. Band 17. Zürich: Chronos Verlag.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2024. Nostalgia and the German(ic) Past: The Medieval Poem of Walthare. Mediävistische Perspektiven. Vol. Band 17. Zürich: Chronos Verlag.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2007. Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Melodies in the Early Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2007. Nota Bene: Reading Classics and Writing Melodies in the Early Middle Ages. Turnhout: Brepols.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1998. Obscenity: Social Control and Artistic Creation in the European Middle Ages. Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions 4. E. J. Brill: Leiden.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1998. Obscenity: Social Control and Artistic Creation in the European Middle Ages. Cultures, Beliefs and Traditions 4. E. J. Brill: Leiden.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1990. On Philology. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1990. On Philology. University Park, Pennsylvania: Penn State Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2008. Solomon and Marcolf. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2008. Solomon and Marcolf. Cambridge, MA: Department of the Classics, Harvard University.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 2022. Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 2022. Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 1993. Talking Animals: Medieval Latin Beast Poetry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 1993. Talking Animals: Medieval Latin Beast Poetry. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1994. The Cambridge Songs (Carmina Cantabrigiensia). Garland Library of Medieval Literature. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
Ziolkowski, Jan, ed. 1994. The Cambridge Songs (Carmina Cantabrigiensia). Garland Library of Medieval Literature. New York: Garland Publishing, Inc.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers .
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 1: The Middle Ages. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers .
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 2: Medieval Meets Medievalism. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 3: The American Middle Ages . Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 3: The American Middle Ages . Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 4: Picture That: Making a Show of the Jongleur. Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publishers.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century . Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publisher.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 5: Tumbling into the Twentieth Century . Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publisher.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence . Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publisher.
Ziolkowski, Jan. 2018. The Juggler of Notre Dame and the Medievalizing of Modernity. Volume 6: War and Peace, Sex and Violence . Cambridge, UK: Open Book Publisher.
Ziolkowski, Jan, and Mary Carruthers, eds. 2002. The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Words and Pictures. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, and Mary Carruthers, eds. 2002. The Medieval Craft of Memory: An Anthology of Words and Pictures. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
Thomas, Richard F., and Jan Ziolkowski, eds. 2014. The Virgil Encyclopedia. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Thomas, Richard F., and Jan Ziolkowski, eds. 2014. The Virgil Encyclopedia. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.
Ziolkowski, Jan, and Michael Putnam, eds. 2008. The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years. New Haven: Yale University Press.
Ziolkowski, Jan, and Michael Putnam, eds. 2008. The Virgilian Tradition: The First Fifteen Hundred Years. New Haven: Yale University Press.