Greg Stone
Professor
Phone: 225-578-6627
E-mail: stone@lsu.edu
Office: 405 Hodges
Area of Interest
Medieval and Renaissance French and Italian literature and philosophy; medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy and its reception in Europe; literary theory and criticism
Selected Publications
Books
Guido Cavalcanti: Poet of the Rational Animal. Routledge, 2020.
Dante's Pluralism and the Islamic Philosophy of Religion. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.
The Ethics of Nature in the Middle Ages: On Boccaccio's Poetaphysics. New York: St. Martin's Press [Palgrave Macmillan] 1998.
The Death of the Troubadour: The Late Medieval Resistance to the Renaissance. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1994.
Book chapters and articles
"Ramon Llull and Islam." In A Companion to Ramon Llull, ed. Amy M. Austin and Mark D. Johnston (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 119-145.
"Animals are from Venus, Humans from Mars: Averroes鈥檚 Aristotle and the Rationality of Emotion in Guido Cavalcanti鈥檚 Donna me prega.鈥� PMLA 130.5 (2015): 1269-1284.
"Dante and the Falasifa: Religion as Imagination.鈥� In Dante and Islam, ed. Jan Ziolkowski, (New York: Fordham UP, 2015), pp. 114-132.
"Dante's Commedia, Islamic Rationalism, and the Enumeration of the Sciences. " Doctor Virtualis 12 (2013).
"Philosophy and the City of Man: The Islamic Roots of Western Secularism." In Mapping the Medieval Mediterranean, ca. 300-1550: An encyclopedia of perspectives in research, ed. Nichols Amity Law (Leiden: Brill, Forthcoming) [7000-word chapter book, under contract].
"Dante as Celestial Soul: The Final Verses of Paradiso in the Light of Avicenna's Metaphysics." MLN 127, Supplement 1 (2011): 99-109.
"Dante and the Falasifia. Religion as Imagination" Dante Studies 125 (2007): 133-56.
"The Nameless Wild One: The Ethics of Subjectivity Anonymous - Medieval and Modern." Common Knowledge 12, 2 (2006): 219-251.
"Sodomy, Diversity, Cosmopolitanism: Dante and the Limits of the Polis. " Dante Studies 123 (2005): 89-132.
Book reviews
鈥淛eanneret, Michel: J鈥檃ime ta joie parce qu鈥檈lle est folle: 茅crivains en f锚te.鈥� The French Review
92.4 (2019)
鈥淧hilippe Desan, ed.: Lectures du Troisi猫me livre des Essais de Montaigne.鈥� The French Review 92.1 (2018).
鈥淟anger, Ullrich: Lyric in the Renaissance: From Petrarch to Montaigne.鈥� The French Review 91.1 (2017).
鈥淩unyon , Randolph Paul : Order in Disorder: Intratextual Symmetry in Montaigne鈥檚 Essais.鈥� The French Review 89.3 (2016).
鈥淩afal Krazek: Montaigne et la philosophie du plaisir. Pour une lecture 茅picurienne des Essais.鈥� The French Review 87.4 (2014).
鈥淛eremy Tambling: Dante in Purgatory: States of Affect.鈥� Speculum 88.1 (2013).
鈥淧hillip John Usher: Errance et coherence: Essai sur la liitt茅rature transfrontali猫re 脿 la Renaissance.鈥� The French Review 86.5 (2013)