Jonathan Morton specializes in medieval literature with a particular interest in the interrelation between philosophy and art (broadly understood) and in literature’s mediation between knowledge, experience, and desire.  After working as a school teacher in London, he completed a doctoral thesis at Oxford, which was the foundation for his recently published monograph The "Roman de la rose" in its Philosophical Context: Art, Nature, and Ethics (Oxford University Press, 2018). He comes to the MPIWG from King’s College London, where he was a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the French Department. Before that he was a Junior Research Fellow at New College, Oxford. He has published articles on the Romance of the Rose, on medieval bestiaries, and on allegory more generally, and co-edited a collection entitled Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages (Brepols, 2018) and another on the Romance of the Rose and medieval philosophy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).

Publications include:

  • The "Roman de la rose" in its Philosophical Context: Art, Nature, and Ethics (Oxford: Oxford UP, 2018).
  • Medieval Thought Experiments: Poetry, Hypothesis, and Experience in the European Middle Ages, ed. Philip Knox, Jonathan Morton, and Daniel Reeve (Turnhout: Brepols, 2018).
  • "The Book of the World at an Anglo-Norman Court: The Bestiaire de Philippe de Thaon as a Theological Performance," New Medieval Literatures Vol. 16 Boydell & Brewer, 2016. p. 1–38.
  • The "Romance of the Rose" and Thirteenth-Century Thought, ed. Jonathan Morton and Marco Nievergelt with John Marenbon (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, forthcoming).
  • "Engin: Creativity, Invention, and Knowledge in the Medieval Romance Tradition of Alexander the Great," Romanic Review, forthcoming.

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Selected Publications

Morton, Jonathan (2024). “Philosophies: Cosmos and Politics, Harmony and Disharmony.” In A Cultural History of Western Music. Vol. 2: A Cultural History of Western Music in the Middle Ages, ed. H. Deeming and E. E. Leach, 55–79. London: Bloomsbury…

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Morton, Jonathan (2023). “Out of Time: Ekphrasis, Narration, and Temporal Experience in Twelfth-Century Romances of Antiquity.” Interfaces 10: 116–150. https://doi.org/10.54103/interfaces-10-07.

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Morton, Jonathan (2023). “Humans, Animals, and Nature in the ‘Rose.’” In Approaches to Teaching the Romance of the Rose, ed. D. Delogu and A.-H. Miller, 113–125. New York, NY: Modern Language Association of America.

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Morton, Jonathan (2022). “Making Sense of ‘ingenium’: Translating Thought in Twelfth-Century Latin Texts on Cognition.” In Premodern Experience of the Natural World in Translation, ed. K. Krause, M. Auxent, and D. Weil, 90–110. New York, NY:…

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Gastwissenschaftler Jonathan Morton erhält Stipendium der Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung

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