Elizabeth Archibald's Outputs (3)

Relative Roles in Medieval Incest Stories: Fathers and Daughters (2015)
Book Chapter
Archibald, E. (2015). Relative Roles in Medieval Incest Stories: Fathers and Daughters. In F. Bouchet, & D. James-Raoul (Eds.), Desir n’a repos: Hommage à Danielle Bohler (177-188). Presses universitaires de Bordeaux

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..