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Eric Jager (born April 27, 1957) is an American literary critic and a specialist in medieval literature. He is a professor in the department of English at University of California, Los Angeles, received his B.A. from Calvin College in 1979, and his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1987. He has also taught at Columbia University as an associate professor.

Select bibliography

• Blood Royal: A True Tale of Crime and Detection in Medieval Paris, 2014, Little Brown and Company
• The Last Duel: A True Story of Crime, Scandal, and Trial by Combat in Medieval France, 2004, London: Random House
• The Book of the Heart, 2000
• The Tempter's Voice: Language and the Fall in Medieval Literature, 1993

References

1. Eric Jager at UCLA
2. JAGER, Eric 1957-
3. Jager, Eric (1996). "The Book of the Heart: Reading and Writing the Medieval Subject". Speculum. 71 (1): 1–26. doi:10.2307/2865198. ISSN 0038-7134. JSTOR 2865198. S2CID 162115473.
4. Books, Goodreads

External links

• "The Book of the Heart in Late Medieval Piety", by Eric Jager, 1995.
• "Lost in the Archives", by Eric Jager, in The Chronicle of Higher Education, March 6, 2009 - discusses the writing of The Last Duel
• 'The Last Duel' Between French Knights, by Sheilah Kast, NPR interview, December 26, 2004 (audio, 10-mins)

• 1957 births
• Living people
• American medievalists
• American literary critics
• University of California, Los Angeles faculty
• Columbia University faculty
• University of Michigan alumni
• Calvin University alumni
• 21st-century American historians
• 21st-century American male writers
• Historians from California
• American male non-fiction writers