Description: Advancing a wealth of new material and fresh insight, the essays address the complex interplay of the conventions of medieval fictional, historical, and genealogical writing from a wide variety of critical perspectives. Together, they offer a new, more comprehensive understanding of one of the most significant medieval literary works.
Brief description: DONALD MADDOX is a professor of French and Italian at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has written and edited a number of books on medieval literature including, in collaboration with Sarah Sturm-Maddox, Froissart across the Genres, Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture, and a translation, the first in modern English, of the Roman de Melusine.