The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages 2nd New edition)

The editor, W.R.J. Barron, who is also the General Editor of the series, has published widely in the field of mediaeval English literature. He has taught at the University of Manchester and is currently Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Exeter and Life President of the International Arthurian Society (British Branch). FLORA ALEXANDER is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Aberdeen. A regular contributor to BBIAS, she has written on various Arthurian topics as well as on Canadian fiction and the teaching of Women's Studies ROSAMUND ALLEN teaches Old and Middle English literature at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. She has published on the medieval English mystics, on Arthurian texts, including Layamon's Brut, and on Gower. RAY BARRON was a student at St Andrews, Yale and Strasbourg, taught at Aberdeen, Manchester and Shiraz, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow of the University of Exeter, a Past President of IAS, and a Vinaver Trustee. CATHERINE BATT is Lecturer in Medieval Literature, University of Leeds. Her research includes comparative literature, and she has published on Anglo- Norman and Middle English hagiography, the Gawain-poet, Malory and Caxton. CHRIS BROOKS is Reader in Victorian Culture in the University of Exeter and Chair of the Victorian Society. He has published extensively on the history of the Gothic Revival, Victorian architecture and arts, and the literature of the period. INGA BRYDEN, Senior Lecturer in English at King Alfred's College, Winchester, will shortly publish a four-volume collection of Pre-Raphaelite writings * is finishing a book on the reinvention of the Arthurian legends in Victorian culture. DAVID BURNLEY is Chairman of the School of English at Sheffield University. He has written books on the language of Chaucer and the history of English and courtly culture, as well as material on medieval French, and English lexicology. JAMES CARLEY, a professor of English at York University, Toronto, has written extensively on Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian legend. He is presently completing books on the libraries of Henry VIII, and the Tudor antiquary Leland. PETER FIELD is a professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. He has published extensively on authors from Nennius in the ninth century to Anthony Burgess, but the focus of his interests has always been Malory. ROSALIND FIELD is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Royal Holloway College, University of London, with research interests and numerous publications in Middle English and Anglo-Norman romance, and in Chaucer. DAVID GRIFFITH gained his doctorate from Exeter in 1991 and now teaches Old and Middle English at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are in medieval romance and late medieval art. KAREN DODDER teaches in the Department of English and Related Literature and the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York, and has written articles on medieval and Victorian Arthurian subjects. LESLEY JOHNSON, formerly Senior Lecturer in the School of English, University of Leeds, now lives and works in Frankfurt, and has published widely in the field of medieval English historiography and in feminist studies. FRANCOISE LE SAUX, graduate of the University of Wales and of the University of Lausanne, Switzerland, has taught in the universities of Lausanne, Geneva and Freiburg-im-Breisgau, and is now a Lecturer at Reading University. CERIDWEN LLOYD-MORGAN has published widely in the field of Welsh Arthurian literature. She is currently Senior Assistant Archivist in the Department of Manuscripts and Records at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth. MALDWYN MILLS is an Emeritus professor of English in the University of Wales, Aberystwyth. Educated at University of Wales Cardiff, and Jesus College, Oxford, his chief research interests are the Middle English romances and Chaucer. GILLIAN ROGERS, a doctoral graduate of the University of Wales, is Engl