Description: Explores the significance of Alexander the Great in French medieval literature and culture.
Brief description: Sara Sturm-Maddox received her PhD in Romance Philology and Medieval Literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She has received many awards and honors including an NEH Fellowship. She is the author of four books including Petrarch's Morals and Petrarch's Metamorphoses. In addition, she has written and edited a broad range of works on European Medieval Literature.
Review Quotes:
"...will be essential reading for all Alexander scholars for many years to come." -- Speculum
"The editors have assembled a group of European and American 'stars' of the Old French field, many of whom have written elsewhere on the subject of the Alexander texts, but most of whom have strong reputations as historians and critics in several branches of medieval French literature. The results do not disappoint. This will be the English-language authority on Alexander." -- Brian Merrilees, coeditor of The Anglo-Norman Voyage of St. Brendan
Contributors include Emmanuèle Baumgartner, Renate Blumenfeld-Kosinski, Keith Busby, Catherine Croizy-Naquet, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Martin Gosman, Laurence Harf-Lancner, Douglas Kelly, William W. Kibler, Donald Maddox, Rupert T. Pickens, Sara Sturm-Maddox, François Suard, Michelle Szkilnik, Jane H. M. Taylor, Michelle R. Warren, Stephen D. White, and Michel Zink.