The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature

The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages.

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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.

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The Routledge Companion to Medieval English Literature offers a new, inclusive, and comprehensive context to the study of medieval literature written in the English language from the Norman Conquest to the end of the Middle Ages.

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Medieval English Literature: A trans-European Literary History

Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir

PART I:THE FORMS OF LITERATURE: INTRODUCTION

Raluca Radulescu and Sif Rikhardsdottir

1. Orality, Vocality, and Textuality ** Karl Reichl

2. Vernacularity ** Wendy Scase

3. Books and Materiality ** J. R. Mattison and Alexandra Gillespie

4. Form and Genre ** Julie Orlemanski

   PART II: INSULAR BORDERS AND LINGUISTIC INTERACTIONS: INTRODUCTION ** Raluca Radulescu

5. Middle Welsh ** Helen Fulton

6. Irish ** Aisling Byrne

7. Scottish ** Caitlin Flynn

8. Multilingualism ** Ad Putter

   PART III: LITERARY GATEWAYS: INTRODUCTION

   Sif Rikhardsdottir

9. 'Travel' of the Mind via Study: translatio studii et imperii
   Elizaveta Strakhov

10. 'Travel' of the Soul via Religiosity: Imaginary and Actual Pilgrimages ** Ryan Perry

11. French-Speaking Courts and Literary Dominance in Europe ** Keith Busby

12. The Norman Rule ** Laura Ashe

13. The Venetian Gateway: Commerce, Plague, Oriental Motifs ** Sif Rikhardsdottir

14. Origination and Mediation: Sicily ** David Wallace

15. Islamic Pathways and Imaginary Borders ** Shirin A. Khanmohamadi

16. Mercantile Networks ** Craig E. Bertolet

17. Maps and the Medieval World at Large ** Matthew Boyd Goldie

    PART IV: MIDDLE ENGLISH TEXTS AND TRADITIONS: INTRODUCTION ** Raluca Radulescu

18. The Endurance of Early English Literary Traditions ** Orietta Da Rold

19. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Chronicle Tradition ** Jaclyn Rajsic

20. Marie de France and Middle English Romance ** Cory James Rushton

21. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Alliterative Tradition ** Lawrence Warner

22. Geoffrey Chaucer ** Marion Turner

23. John Gower ** Siân Echard

24. William Langland: European Poet? ** Marco Nievergelt

25. Hoccleve and Lydgate: Transnationalism and Tradition ** Sebastian J. Langdell

26. Margery Kempe, Julian of Norwich, and Female Spirituality ** Laura Kalas

27. The Middle English Lyrics in Their European Context ** Christiania Whitehead

28. Medieval English Drama and Performance ** Charlotte Steenbrugge

29. Thomas Malory ** Raluca Radulescu

30. Hagiography ** Karen A. Winstead

    PART V: THE MODERN MIDDLE AGES: INTRODUCTION ** Sif Rikhardsdottir

31. Emotion ** Andrew Lynch

32. Race ** Wan-Chuan Kao

33. Gender/Queer ** Laura Saetveit Miles and Samantha Katz Seal

34. Postcolonialism ** Patricia Clare Ingham and Abby Ang

35. Ecocriticism ** Michael J. Warren

36. Human/Animal ** Karl Steel

37. Medievalism David Matthews