Prof Elizabeth Archibald: Separated Families in Medieval Romance

Department of Anglophone Literatures and Cultures and the Centre for the Study of the Middle Ages, Faculty of Arts, Charles University invite you to a guest lecture by Professor Elizabeth Archibald “Separated Families in Medieval Romance” that will be held on Wednesday, 30 October 2024, 2:10 pm in Room P104 (main building of CU FA).

Elizabeth Archibald is a member of the Institute of Medieval and Early Modern Studies and Professor Emerita in the Department of English Studies, University of Durham. Professor Archibald’s research is focused on medieval literature, especially the Arthurian legend, medieval romance, the classical tradition in the Middle Ages, and the interface between literature and social history.

She is the author of Apollonius of Tyre: Medieval and Renaissance Themes and Variations (D. S. Brewer, 1991), a seminal study on the subject, and of Incest and the Medieval Imagination (Clarendon Press, 2001). The books she co-edited, A Companion to Malory (with Professor A. S. G. Edwards, D. S. Brewer, 1996), and The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend (with Professor Ad Putter, CUP, 2009), have become standard texts in the field. Her current research project is an interdisciplinary study of bathing in medieval literature and society.