Dr Shami Ghosh
Shami Ghosh (BA London; MA, PhD Toronto; MA Oxon.)
Fellow by Examination, Magdalen College
Address: Magdalen College, High Street, Oxford OX1 4AU
Email: shami.ghosh@magd.ox.ac.uk
Homepage: http://individual.utoronto.ca/shamighosh/home.htm
Research
Shami Ghosh works on Middle High German literature from the 'Blütezeit', Old Norse literature, medieval historiography, lay religiosity, and the social and economic history of medieval and early modern Germany. He has published articles on Wolfram von Eschenbach and Germanic heroic poetry, as well as a monograph on the Old Norse kings' sagas. His current projects are concerned with the late medieval origins of capitalism and the 'Great Divergence' between Europe and Asia; Wolfram's 'Parzival'; notions of Norwegian-ness in the middle ages; and modern editions of medieval German texts.
Teaching
Medieval history; Middle High German language and literature; Medieval Latin language.
Publications
'Conquest, conversion and heathen customs in Henry of Livonia’s Chronicon Livoniae and the Livländische Reimchronik', forthcoming in Crusades 11 (2012).
Kings' sagas and Norwegian history: problems and perspectives (Leiden: Brill, 2011).
'Condwiramurs', Deutsche Vierteljahrsschrift für Literaturwissenschaft und Geistesgeschichte, 82, 1 (2008), 3-25.
'On the origins of Germanic heroic poetry: a case study of the legend of the Burgundians', Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur, 129, 2 (2007), 220-52.
'Forms of kinship: unresolved tensions in Wolfram's Willehalm', Euphorion, 97, 3 (2003), 303-25.