I	Henry Ansgar (Andy) Kelly           Emerit Distinguished Professor    Department of English   University of California, Los Angeles Los Angeles, California 90095-1530 kelly@humnet.ucla.edu

Research Interests

• Medieval and Renaissance Literature and History; Biblical Studies; Ecclesiastical History and Theology

• For specific topics, see Chaucer, Dante, Devil, Incest, Inquisition, Latin, Law, Love, Marriage, Richard III, Shakespeare, Spain, Tragedy.
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BOOKS

• The Devil, Demonology, and Witchcraft: The Development of Christian Beliefs in Evil Spirits. New York: Doubleday, l968.
• Towards the Death of Satan: The Growth and Decline of Christian Demonology. London, Dublin, and Melbourne: Geoffrey Chapman, l968.
• La morte di Satana: Sviluppo e declino della demonologia cristiana. Trans. Lucia Pigni Maccia. La Ricerca religiosa: Studi e testi, no. 8. Milan: Bompiani, l969.
• The Devil, Demonology, and Witchcraft. Revised Edition. New York: Doubleday, l974.
• Le diable et ses demons: La demonologie chretienne hier et aujourd'hui. Trans. Maurice Galiano. Paris: Les editions du Cerf, l977.
• The Devil, Demonology, and Witchcraft. Reprint of 1974 edition with a new Appendix (English translation of TRE "Teufel" entry, 2001).  Eugene:  Wipf and Stock, 2004.

• Divine Providence in the England of Shakespeare's Histories. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, l970.  Reprint:  Eugene:  Wipf and Stock, 2004.

• Love and Marriage in the Age of Chaucer. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, l975.  Reprint:  Eugene:  Wipf and Stock, 2004.

• The Matrimonial Trials of Henry VIII. Stanford: Stanford University Press, l976.  Reprint with New Forward:  Eugene:  Wipf and Stock, 2004.

• Canon Law and the Archpriest of Hita. Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies, vol. 27. Binghamton: SUNY, l984. 203 pp.

• The Devil at Baptism: Ritual, Theology, and Drama. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, l985.  Reprint:  Eugene:  Wipf and Stock, 2004.

• Chaucer and the Cult of St. Valentine. Davis Medieval Texts and Studies no. 5. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1986.

• Tragedy and Comedy from Dante to Pseudo-Dante. Berkeley: UC Press, 1989.  Reprint:  Eugene:  Wipf and Stock, 2004.

• Ideas and Forms of Tragedy from Aristotle to the Middle Ages. Cambridge University Studies in Medieval Literature. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.  Paperback Reprint, 2005.

• The Monsters and the Neo-Critics: Proceedings of a Symposium Held at UCLA (1994), ed. Exemplaria 7.1 (Spring 1995) 1-98; "Introduction: Are the Middle Ages Theoretically Recalcitrant?" (pp. 1-7).

• Chaucerian Tragedy. Chaucer Studies no. 24. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1997. Paperback Reprint, 2000.

• Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West. Variorum Reprint Series. Aldershot: Ashgate Publishing, 2001. Ca. 300 pp. See "Law" hypertext for contents.

• Satan:  A Biography. Cambridge University Press, 2006

Articles

• "Consciousness in the Monologues of Ulysses," Modern Language Quarterly 24 (l963) 3-l2.
• "The Devil in the Desert," Catholic Biblical Quarterly 26 (l964) l90-220.
• "The Deployment of Faith and Reason in Bacon's Approach to Knowledge," Modern Schoolman 42 (l965) 265-285.
• "Demonology and Diabolical Temptation," Thought 40 (l965) l65-l94.
• "Demonology and Diabolical Temptation," Theology Digest l4 (l966) l3l-l36
• "Canonical Implications of Richard III's Plan to Marry His Niece," Traditio 23 (1967) 269-311.
• "Kinship, Incest, and the Dictates of Law," American Journal of Jurisprudence 14 (1969) 69-78.
• "Death of the Devil?" Commonweal 93.6 (6 November l970) l46-l49.
• "The Metamorphoses of the Eden Serpent during the Middle Ages and Renaissance," Viator 2 (l97l) 30l-327.
• "Clandestine Marriage and Chaucer's Troilus," in Marriage in the Middle Ages, ed. John Leyerle, Viator 4 (1973) 413-501, Chapter 2, pp. 435-457.
• "Occupatio as Negative Narration: A Mistake for Occultatio/Praeteritio," Modern Philology 74 (l976-l977) 3ll-3l5.
• "English Kings and the Fear of Sorcery," Mediaeval Studies 39 (1977) 206-238.
• "The Genoese St. Valentine and Chaucer's Third of May," Chaucer Newsletter l.2 (Summer l979) 6-l0.
• "Aristotle-Averroes-Alemannus on Tragedy: The Influence of the Poetics on the Latin Middle Ages," Viator 10 (1979) 161-209.
• "Tragedy and the Performance of Tragedy in Late Roman Antiquity," Traditio 35 (1979) 21-44.
• "Tillyard and History," Clio l0 (l980-8l) 85-88.
• "Chaucer's Arts and Our Arts," in New Perspectives in Chaucer Criticism, ed. Donald M. Rose (Norman, Okla. l98l), pp. l07-l20.
• "Gaston Paris's Courteous and Horsely Love," in The Spirit of the Court: Selected Proceedings of the Fourth Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society (Toronto 1983), ed. Glyn S. Burgess and Robert A. Taylor. Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1985. Pp. 217-223.
• "Archpriests, Apostles, and Episcopal Epistles," La Coronica 14 (1985-86) 1-5.
• "The Last Chroniclers of Croyland," The Ricardian 7.91 (December 1985) 142-177.
• "Pronouncing Latin Words in English," Classical World 80 (1986-87) 33-37.
• "The Non-Tragedy of Arthur," in Medieval English Religious and Ethical Literature: Essays in Honour of G. H. Russell, ed. Gregory Kratzmann and James Simpson. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986. Pp. 92-114.
• "Heaney's Sweeney: The Poet as Version-Maker," Philological Quarterly 65 (1986) 293-310.
• "The Varieties of Love in Medieval Literature According to Gaston Paris," Romance Philology 40 (1986-87) 301-327.
• "The Devil at Large," Journal of Religion 67 (1987) 519-528.
• "The Croyland Chronicle Tragedies," The Ricardian 7.99 (December 1987) 498-515.
• "Juan Ruiz and Archpriests: Novel Reports." La Coronica 16:2 (Spring 1988) 32-54.
• "Lawyers' Latin: Loquenda ut Vulgus?" Journal of Legal Education 38 (1988) 195-207.
• "Dating the Accessus Section of the Pseudo-Dantean Epistle to Cangrande." Lectura Dantis no. 2 (Spring 1988) 93-102.
• "A Juan Ruiz Directory for 1380-1382." Mester 16:2 (Fall 1988) 69-93.
• "Chaucer and Shakespeare on Tragedy." Leeds Studies in English 20 (1989) 191-206.
• "Inquisition and the Prosecution of Heresy: Misconceptions and Abuses." Church History 58 (1989) 439-451.
• "Satan the Old Enemy: A Cosmic J. Edgar Hoover," Journal of American Folklore 103 (1990) 77-84.
• "Croyland Observations." The Ricardian 8.108 (March 1990) 334-341.
• "Shades of Incest and Cuckoldry: Pandarus and John of Gaunt," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 13 (1991) 121-140.
• "Dual Nationality, the Myth of Election, and a Kinder, Gentler State Department," University of Miami Inter-American Law Review 23 (1991-92) 421-464.
• "Medieval Relations, Marital and Other," Medievalia et humanistica n.s. 19 (1992) 133-146.
• "Inquisitorial Due Process and the Status of Secret Crimes," Proceedings of the Eighth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (UCSD 1988), ed. Stanley Chodorow. Monumenta iuris canonici, series C: Subsidia, vol. 4 (Vatican City, 1992), pp. 407-428.
• "Interpretation of Genres and by Genres in Medieval Literature," in Interpretations: Medieval and Modern , ed. Piero Boitani and Anna Torti, J. A. W. Bennett Lectures, no. 7: Perugia, 6-8 April 1992 (Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell and Brewer, 1993, pp. 107-122.
• "Sacraments, Sacramentals, and Lay Piety in Chaucer's England," Chaucer Review 28 (1993-94) 5-22.
• "The Right to Remain Silent: Before and After Joan of Arc," Speculum 68 (1993) 992-1026.
• "'Rule of Thumb' and the Folklaw of the Husband's Stick," Journal of Legal Education 44 (1994) 341-65.
• "Cangrande and the Ortho-Dantists," Lectura Dantis nos. 14-15 (1994) 61-95.
• "Reply to Robert Hollander," Lectura Dantis no. 14-15 (1994) 111-115.
• "Joan of Arc's Last Trial: The Attack of the Devil's Advocates," in Fresh Verdicts on Joan of Arc , ed. Bonnie Wheeler and Charles T. Wood (New York 1996) 205-38.
• "Manuscript Mores and the Libro de buen amor," Comparative Literature Studies 33 (1996) 187-97.
• "A Neo-Revisionist Look at Chaucer's Nuns," Chaucer Review 31 (1996-97) 116-36.
• "Statutes of Rapes and Alleged Ravishers of Wives: A Context for the Charges Against Thomas Malory, Knight," Viator 28 (1997) 361-419.
• "Lollard Inquisitions: Due and Undue Process." In The Devil, Heresy and Witchcraft in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey B. Russell, ed. Alberto Ferreiro (Leiden: Brill, 1998), pp. 279-303.
• "Meanings and Uses of Raptus in Chaucer's Time," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 20 (1998) 101-65.
• "The Case Against Edward IV's Marriage and Offspring: Secrecy; Witchcraft; Secrecy; Precontract," The Ricardian 11.142 (September 1998) 326-35.
• "Medieval Laws and Views on Wife-Beating," Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Syracuse University, 1996), ed. Kenneth Pennington. Monumenta iuris canonici, series C: Subsidia, vol. 6 (Vatican City), forthcoming.
• "Trial Procedures Against Wyclif and Wycliffites in England and at the Council of Constance," Huntington Library Quarterly 61 (1999) 1-28
• "Bishop, Prioress, and Bawd in the Stews of Southwark," Speculum 75 (2000) 342-88
•  "The Evolution of the Monk's Tale:  Tragical to Farcical."  Studies in the Age of Chaucer 22 (2000) 407-14
• "The Pardoner's Voice, Disjunctive Narrative, and Modes of Effemination," Speaking Images:  Essays in Honor of V. A. Kolve, ed. R. F. Yeager and Charlotte C. Morse (Asheville NC 2001), pp. 411-44
• "Teufel, V:  Kirchengeschichtlich" ("The Devil," part 5:  "In Church History"), TRE  (Theologische Realenzyklopädie) 33.1/2 (2001) 124-34.
• "Medieval Laws and Views on Wife-Beating," Proceedings of the Tenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Syracuse, New York, 13-18 August 1996), ed. Kenneth Pennington, Stanley Chodorow, and Keith H. Kendall.  Monumenta iuris canonici, series C:  Subsidia, vol. 11 (Vatican City 2001), pp. 985-1001.
• "The Law and Nonmarital Sex," Conflict in Modern Europe:  Changing Perspectives on Society and Culture, ed. Piotr Gorecki and Warren Brown.  Aldershot:   Ashgate, 2003, pp. 175-93.
• "Saint Joan and Confession:  Internal and External Forum," in Joan of Arc and Spirituality, ed. Ann W. Astell and Bonnie Wheeler (New York:  Macmillan, 2003), pp. 60-84.
• "How Cecilia Came to Be a Saint and Patron (Matron?) of Music,"  in The Echo of Music: Essays in Honor of Marie Louise Göllner, ed. Blair Sullivan .  Warren, MI: Harmonie Park Press, 2004, pp. 3-18.
• "Uniformity and Sense in Editing and Citing Medieval Texts," Medieval Academy News, Spring 2004, pp. 8-9; Letter, Spring 2005, p. 6. Text
• "Medieval Heroics without Heroes or Epics,S in Heroic Poets and Poetic Heroes in Celtic Traditions:  Essays in Honor of Patrick K. Ford, ed. Leslie Ellen Jones and Joseph Falaky Nagy.  Dublin:  Four Courts Press, 2005, pp. 226-38.
• "Jews and Saracens in Chaucer's England:  A Review of the Evidence," Studies in the Age of Chaucer 27 (2005) 129-69.
•  "The Prioress's Tale in Context:  Good and Bad Reports of Non-Christians in Fourteenth-Century England," Studies in Medieval and Renaissance History n.s. 3 (2006).
• "ChaucerÅs Knight and the Northern 'Crusades':  The Example of Henry Bolingbroke,"Medieval Cultural Studies in Honor of Stephen Knight, ed. Helen Fulton, David Matthews, and Ruth Evans.  Aberystwith:  University of Wales Press, 2006.
• "Penitential Theology and Law at the Turn of the Fifteenth Century," A New History of Penance, ed. Abigail Firey.  Leiden: Brill, 2006.
• "Medieval Jus commune versus/uersus Modern Ius commune; or, Old 'Juice' and New 'Use,'" Proceedings of the Twelfth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law (Washington, DC.  August 1-7, 2004), ed. Kenneth Pennington and Uta-Renate Blumenthal.  Vatican City, 2007.
• "Canon Law, Charming Magic, and Chaucer's Spells," Festschrift for Edward Peters, ed. Ruth Mazo Karras et al.  Forthcoming.
• "Wives, Widows, and Property in Chaucer and His Times," in progress.
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Review Articles

• Review of Birger Gerhardsson, The Testing of God's Son (Matt. 4.1-11 & Par.): An Analysis of an Early Christian Midrash (Lund l966), Theological Studies 29 (1968) 528-531.
• Review of Anges et demons, Points cardinaux 21 (Paris l972), Cahiers de civilisation medievale 17 (l974) 39l-392.
• Review of Sandro Sticca, ed., The Medieval Drama (Albany 1972), Classical World 68 (1974-1975) 148-149.
• Review of Rosmarie Thee Morewedge, ed., The Role of Woman in the Middle Ages (Albany 1975) and of Joan M. Ferrante, Woman as Image in Medieval Literature From the Twelfth Century to Dante (New York 1975), Speculum 52 (l977) 715-721.
• Review of Peter Saccio, Shakespeare's English Kings: History, Chronicle, and Drama (New York l977), Journal of English and Germanic Philology 77 (l978) 141.
• Review of Roger Boase, The Origin and Meaning of Courtly Love: A Critical Study of European Scholarship (Manchester l977), Speculum 54 (l979) 338-342.
• Review of N. B. Smith and J. T. Snow, eds. The Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Love (Athens, Ga. l980), Studies in the Age of Chaucer 3 (l98l) l79-l83.
• Review of J. B. Russell, Satan: The Early Christian Tradition (Ithaca l98l), Journal of Religious History l2 (l983) 33l-333.
• Review of H. R. Coursen, The Leasing out of England: Shakespeare's Second Henriad (Washington l982), Modern Philology 82 (l984-85) 204-206.
• Review of Carlo Ginzburg, The Night Battles, Tr. John and Anne Tedeschi (Baltimore l983). Cithara, 24.2 (May l985) 6l-63.
• Review of Marjorie Curry Woods, ed., An Early Commentary on the 'Poetria nova' of Geoffrey of Vinsauf (New York, 1985), Manuscripta 32 (1988) 54-58.
• Review of J. A. Burrow, The Ages of Man (New York 1986); Mary Dove, The Perfect Age of Man's Life (Cambridge 1986); Elizabeth Sears, The Ages of Man (Princeton 1988), Speculum 63 (1988) 630-634.
• Review of Neil Forsyth, The Old Enemy: Satan and the Combat Myth (Princeton 1987), Journal of American Folklore 102 (1989) 107-110.
• Review of Joseph Allen Hornsby, Chaucer and the Law (Norman 1988),.Speculum 65 (1990) 429-432.
• Review of The Welles Anthology: Ms. Rawlinson C. 813, ed. Sharon L. Jansen and Kathleen H. Jordan (1991), Manuscripta 35 (1991) 238-242.
• Review of Katharina M. Wilson and Elizabeth M. Makowski, Wykked Wyves and the Woes of Marriage (1990), Speculum 67 (1992) 755-757.
• Review of Piero Boitani, ed., The European Tragedy of Troilus (1989), English Language Notes 30 (1992-93) 78-80.
• Review of Martin Camargo, The Middle English Verse Love Epistle (1991), Speculum 68 (1993) 482-485.
• Review of John Dagenais, The Ethics of Reading in Manuscript Culture: Glossing the 'Libro de buen amor' (1994). Comparative Literature Studies 33 (1996) 187-97.
• Review of Barbara Hanawalt, Chaucer's England: Literature in Historical Context (1992), Envoi 4 (1993) 51-62 (publication delayed).
• Review of C. W. Marx, The Devil's Rights and the Redemption in the Literature of Medieval England (1995), Speculum 72 (1997) 859-61.
• Review of Judith Ferster, Fictions of Advice: The Literature and Politics of Counsel in Late Medieval England (1996), in American Historical Review 103 (1998) 866-67.
• Review of Neil Cartlidge, Medieval Marriage: Literary Approaches, 1100-1300 (1997), in Journal of English and Germanic Philology 98 (1999) 340-43.
• Review of J. M. M. H. Thijssen, Censure and Heresy at the University of Paris, 1200-1400 (1998), in Speculum 75 (2000) 729-31. repr. in Inquisitions and Other Trial Procedures in the Medieval West.
• Review of Medieval Folklore:  An Encyclopedia of Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs, ed. Carl Lindahl, John McNamara, and John Lindow, 2 vols. (2000), in Western Folklore 60 (2001) 322-24.
• Review of Hugh White, Nature, Sex, and Goodness in a Medieval Literary Tradition (2000),  in Studies in the Age of Chaucer 23 (2002) 448-51.
• Review of Jacqueline Murray, ed., Love, Marriage, and Family in the Middle Ages:  A Reader (2001), in The Medieval Review (online), 2002 (02.09.08).
• Review of Kathryn Jacobs, Marriage Contracts from Chaucer to the Renaissance Stage (2001), in Speculum 78 (2003)  1321-22.



In Progress

• Chaucer Encyclopedia, general editor, Daniel J. Ransom; religious editor, H. A. Kelly (Yale University Press): ca. 260 entries on religious subjects.

• Born: 6 June 1934, Fonda, Iowa, U.S.A.
• Married: 18 June 1968, to Marea Tancred (Sydney, Australia)
• Children: Sarah, born 1970; Dominic, born 1972

• 1952-53: Creighton University
• 1953-61: St. Louis University
• A.B. 1959 (Classics)
• A. M. 1961 (English Literature)
• Ph.L. 1961 (Philosophy)
• 1961-1964: Harvard University
• Ph.D 1965
• 1964-66: Boston College: Weston College of Theology
• (1953-66: Jesuit Scholastic)

• 1967-69: Assistant Professor, UCLA
• 1969-72: Associate Professor, UCLA
• 1972-86: Professor, UCLA
• 1986-2004:  Distinguished Professor, UCLA
• 1998-2003 : Director, Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies
• 2003- : Editor of Viator
• 2004-  :  Emerit Distinguished Professor, UCLA

• 1964-67: Junior Fellow, Harvard University of Fellows
• (1966-67: Resident Scholar, American Academy in Rome)
• 1971-72: Fellow, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation
• 1980-81: Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities
• (1980-81: Visiting Professor, University of Sydney)
• 1986: Fellow, Del Amo Endowment
• 1986- : Fellow, Medieval Academy of America
• 1986-88: Vice-President, Medieval Association of the Pacific
• 1987-90: Councillor, Medieval Academy of America
• 1988-90: President, Medieval Association of the Pacific
• 1996-97: Fellow, National Endowment for the Humanities
• 1996-97: UC President's Research Fellowship in the Humanities 

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die xxvi mensis Octobris
anno a nativitate Domini mmv.
Dominus nobis sit graciosus.

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