Principal publications
Monographs
- Dante’s Style in his Lyric Poetry (1971)
- Dante Philomythes and Philosopher: Man in the Cosmos (1981)
- Night Thoughts on Italian Poetry and Art: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered before the University of Cambridge on 16 November 1983 (Inaugural Lectures, 1983)
- Predisposition and Prevenience: Prolegomena to the Study of Dante’s Mind and Art (1984)
- Perception and Passion in Dante’s Comedy (1991)
- Human Vices and Human Worth in Dante’s Comedy (2000)
Translations
- Dante’s Lyric Poems (with Kenelm Foster, Michele Barbi ed., 1999)
Edited and co-edited
- Cambridge Readings in Dante’s Comedy (1982)
- The Book of Memory: A Study of Memory in Medieval Culture (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 10, 1990)
- Medieval Dutch Literature in its European Context (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 21, 1994)
- The Fiore in Context: Dante, France, Tuscany (1996)
- Floire & Blancheflor & Euro Romance (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 32, 1997)
- Sodomy, Masculinity and Law in Medieval Literature: France and England, 1050–1230 (2004)
- Philosophical Chaucer: Love, Sex, and Agency in the Canterbury Tales (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature, Series Number 55, 2004)