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Malory and the Post-Vulgate Cycle (2018)
Book Chapter
Archibald, E. (2018). Malory and the Post-Vulgate Cycle. In E. Archibald, M. Leitch, & C. Saunders (Eds.), Romance Rewritten: The Evolution of Middle English Romance (115-132). Boydell & Brewer

Some Uses of Direct Speech in the Stanzaic 'Morte Arthur' and Malory (2018)
Journal Article
Archibald, E. (2018). Some Uses of Direct Speech in the Stanzaic 'Morte Arthur' and Malory. Arthuriana (Dallas, Tex. : Online), 28(3), 66-85. https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2018.0026

Malory drew heavily on the Stanzaic Morte Arthur for the content of his final books, but he might also have been influenced by the Stanzaic-poet's distinctive use of direct speech to convey emotion. Unintroduced direct speech and uninterrupted dialog... Read More about Some Uses of Direct Speech in the Stanzaic 'Morte Arthur' and Malory.

Ruodlieb and Romance in Latin: Audience and Authorship (2015)
Book Chapter
Archibald, E. (2015). Ruodlieb and Romance in Latin: Audience and Authorship. In K. Duys, E. Emery, & L. Postlewate (Eds.), Telling the Story in the Middle Ages: Essays in Honor of Evelyn Birge Vitz (171-186). Boydell & Brewer

What did it mean in the Middle Ages to write the sort of narrative that we now call a romance in Latin, or to read one? We have much evidence of the Church’s disapproval of romance, yet romances in Latin exist: they must have been written mostly by c... Read More about Ruodlieb and Romance in Latin: Audience and Authorship.

Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages. (2015)
Book Chapter
Archibald, E. (2015). Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages. In C. Saunders, J. Macnaughton, & D. Fuller (Eds.), The Recovery of Beauty: Arts, Culture, Medicine (53-71). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137426741_4

‘Wine, sex and baths ruin our bodies, but they are the stuff of life,’ according to the tombstone of a Roman freedman at Pompeii.1 It is striking that baths are described as damaging to the body; we might have expected that they were considered an im... Read More about Bathing for Beauty in the Middle Ages..

Variations on romance themes in the 'Historia Meriadoci' (2014)
Journal Article
Archibald, E. (2014). Variations on romance themes in the 'Historia Meriadoci'. Journal of the International Arthurian Society, 2(1), 3-19. https://doi.org/10.1515/jias-2014-0001

The little known Latin Arthurian narrative Historia Meriadoci presents many challenges. Was it written in the twelfth century, in which case it is an early example of Arthurian romance, or is it later, in which case it reflects already developed moti... Read More about Variations on romance themes in the 'Historia Meriadoci'.

Arthurian Latin Romance (2011)
Book Chapter
Archibald, E. (2011). Arthurian Latin Romance. In S. Echard (Ed.), The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature (132-145). The University of Chicago Press

Macaronic Poetry (2010)
Book Chapter
Archibald, E. (2010). Macaronic Poetry. In C. Saunders (Ed.), A Companion to Medieval Poetry (277-288). Wiley

Malory’s Lancelot and Guenevere (2009)
Book Chapter
Archibald, E. (2009). Malory’s Lancelot and Guenevere. In H. Fulton (Ed.), A Companion to Arthurian Literature (312-325). Wiley