The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature (ePub)

Raluca Radulescu is Professor of Medieval English Literature and Director of the Centre for Arthurian Studies at Bangor University, Wales, UK. She is currently the elected Vice-President of the International Arthurian Society. Her research and publications focus on all aspects of medieval literature and studies, particularly on Arthurian and non-Arthurian romance, Thomas Malory, gentry studies, chronicles (including the Middle English Brut and genealogies) and manuscript culture. She has published two monographs (2003 and 2013) and eleven collections of co-edited essays, among them Insular Books: Vernacular Manuscript Miscellanies in Medieval Britain (2015), co-ed. with Margaret Connolly. She is currently writing a book on the Middle English Prose Brut and co-editing, with Andrew Lynch, the Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture (CHALC) in 2 volumes.

Sif Rikhardsdottir is Professor and Chair of Comparative Literature at the University of Iceland and Head of the Institute of Research in Literature and Visual Arts. She works on cross-cultural transmission and literary histories, comparative literary theory, gender, literary emotions, and voice in medieval European literature. Her publications include Medieval Translations and Cultural Discourse: The Movement of Texts in England, France and Scandinavia (2012); Emotion in Old Norse: Translations, Voices, Contexts (2017); and most recently the Critical Companion to Old Norse Literary Genre (2019), co-edited with Carolyne Larrington and Massimiliano Bampi. Her co-edited volume Medieval Literary Voices: Embodiment, Materiality and Performance (with Louise D'Arcens) is forthcoming. She has held Visiting Fellowships or Professorships at Clare Hall, University of Cambridge, Ca' Foscari University of Venice and St John's College, University of Oxford.