CONTACT INFORMATION:
Professor of English
Department of English
University of Bristol
3/5 Woodland Road
Bristol BS8 1TB, UK
| Office Telephone: | +44 117 928 7787 |
| Office Fax: | +44 928 8860 |
| Active email: | E.Archibald@bristol.ac.uk |
| Relevant Webpage: | http://www.bris.ac.uk/Depts/English/ |
SCHOLARLY INTERESTS:
Current area(s) of research:
Medieval romance; classical tradition in the Middle Ages; medieval to renaissance; medieval literature in social/historical context.
Selected publications, recent and forthcoming:
Incest and the Medieval Imagination (Oxford: Clarendon P, 2001)
'The Case of the Female Foundling: Gender and Genre in Lai le Freine', in The Spirit of Medieval English Popular Romance, ed. Ad Putter and Jane Gilbert (Harlow: Longman, 2000), 39-55
'Comedy and Tragedy in Some Arthurian Recognition Scenes', Arthurian Literature XIX (2003), 1-16
'Lancelot as Lover in the English Tradition before Malory', in Arthurian Studies in Honour of Peter Field, ed. Bonnie Wheeler (Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, 2004)
'Ancient Romance', for a Companion to Romance, ed. Corinne Saunders (Oxford: Blackwells, 2004)
'Lancelot of the Laik: Sources,Genre, Reception' for The Scots and the Medieval Arthurian Legend, ed. Rhiannon Purdie and Nicola Royan (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2004)
'Did Knights have Baths? The Absence of Bathing in Middle English Romance', in Cultural Encounters in Middle English Romance, ed. Corinne Saunders (Cambridge: D.S.Brewer, 2004)
WUN-IDENTIFIED RESEARCH COLLABORATION THEMES:
Multilingualism in the Middle Ages:
I work on the reception of classical texts, and the reception and transmission of Arthurian texts and other romances.
History of the Medieval Book:
Please see above.
Medieval Chronicle Studies:
N/A
Ph.D.s UNDER SUPERVISION:
Cory Rushton, Nationalism in the Arthurian Legend.
Alex West, Rape in Medieval Literature and Theology.
Claire Jackson, Space and Travel in Middle English Romance.
STAFF EXCHANGES/ONLINE RESOURCE CREATION/VIDEOCONFERENCING:
Yes, I am interested in exchanges with WUN partner institutions with a strong interest in romance and the Arthurian legend.
MEDIEVAL COURSES TAUGHT:
Medieval Latin; Women and writing in the Middle Ages.
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