Joseph R. Johnson
List of John Benjamins publications in which Joseph R. Johnson is involved.
Articles
2025 Marie de France in motion: Gender and voice in the Ysopet manuscript tradition Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Trachsler, Richard, Baudouin Van den Abeele and Catalina Girbea (eds.), pp. 49–74 | Article
Although Marie de France’s Ysopet (or Fables) survives in a remarkable 25 manuscript witnesses, several of which are complete, every edition of the collection published since 1898 has been grounded in the text of British Library, MS Harley 978 (A). The consensus on the primacy of A reflects an… read more
2018 The churchman and the fox: Traces of renardie in the Archbishop’s Renart Reinardus: Yearbook of the International Reynard Society, Trachsler, Richard and Baudouin Van den Abeele (eds.), pp. 94–123 | Article
Known to Roman de Renart scholars as MS I, the manuscript BnF, f. fr. 12584 has received surprisingly little critical attention. The codex was discounted in early but influential appraisals by philologists like Ernest Martin, who characterised its late Renart text as absurdly abridged and… read more