Eric Jager

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American historian

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Male

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United States of America

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Professor Historian Critic Literary critic Journalist

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Academia Journalism Literature Social science

Birth:

27 April 1957

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Taurus

Education:

University of Michigan

Calvin University

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Eric Jager (born 27 April 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.

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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

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