Dennis Green, who published as D.H. Green, was for nearly fifty years at the forefront of scholarship in medieval German studies. In nine books which appeared between 1965 and 2009 he contributed decisively to our understanding of a range of linguistic and literary topics: language change as the record of cultural change in early Germanic and German societies; irony, narrative technique, and fictionality in courtly romance; the relationship between the written word and its oral mediation in medieval culture; the significant involvement of women in vernacular literacy and literature. At Cambridge for almost his entire career (Professor of Modern Languages from 1966; Schröder Professor of German from 1979 until retirement in 1989; Fellow of Trinity College), he became through his work an internationally recognised authority.
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