R. Howard Bloch

R. Howard Bloch is Sterling Professor of French and Director of the Division of the Humanities at Yale University. He is the author of GOD'S PLAGIARIST: Being an Account of the Fabulous Industry and Irregular Commerce of the Abbé Jacques-Paul Migne; THE ANONYMOUS MARIE DE FRANCE (winner of the MLA's 2005 Scaglione Prize); ETYMOLOGIES AND GENEALOGIES: A Literary Anthropology of the French Middle Ages; and MEDIEVAL FRENCH LITERATURE AND LAW among other works. A recipient of Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellowships, a James Russell Lowell Award, and the Medal of the Collège de France, he is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and an Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

A NEEDLE IN THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD: The Norman Conquest of 1066 and the Making and Meaning of the Bayeux Tapestry (Random House, 2006)