- Felicity Riddy
Professor Felicity Riddy is an academic, author and specialist in
Arthurian literature.Educated at
Auckland University ,New Zealand andOxford , Felicity Riddy became an academic with wide interests in late-medieval literature and culture. Among her research interests areJohn Hardyng , thePearl poet ,Malory and medieval Scottish literature.In 2007 she retired as
Professor of English and Related Literature and Deputy Vice-Chancellor from theUniversity of York . Her interests in urban culture (stimulated by York's Centre for Medieval Studies inter-disciplinary urban Household Research Group) have produced articles on urban courtesy texts, romances, devotional reading and domestic authority. She is director of an AHRC-funded research project on privately owned urban manuscripts.She chairs the British Arthurian Society.Publications
Felicity Riddy's books and articles include:
*"Sir Thomas Malory" (1987)
*"Macmillan Literary Anthologies, I, Old and Middle English Literature" (London, 1989 (with M. J. Alexander).
*"An anthology of Longer Scottish Poems, 1375-1650" (1987) (with Priscilla Bawcutt)
*"Regionalism in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts (1991) (ed.)
*"John Hardyng in Search of the Grail", in Arturus Rex, ed. by W. Van Hoecke (Leuven, 1991), pp. 419-29.
*"Glastonbury, Joseph of Arimathea and the Grail in John Hardyng’s Chronicle", in The Archaeology and History of Glastonbury Abbey, ed. by Lesley Abrams and James P. Carley (Woodbridge, 1991), pp. 317-31.
*"Selected Poems of Henryson and Dunbar" (1992) (with Priscilla Bawcutt)
*Co-editor of the annual "Arthurian Literature" (1993-8)(with James P. Carley)
*"John Hardyng ’s Chronicle and the Wars of the Roses", Arthurian Literature, 12 (1996), 91-108.
*"A feminist reading of Henryson's 'Testament of Cresseid" (1997, repr. 1999).
*"Prestige, Authority and Power in Late Medieval Manuscripts and Texts (2000) (ed.)
*"Looking closely: authority and intimacy in the late-medieval urban home" in Medieval Women and Power Revisited: Challenging the Master Narrative, edited by M. Kowaleski and M. Erler (2003)
*"Youth in the Middle Ages" (2004) (co-edited with P.J.P. Goldberg)
*"Temporary Virginity and the Everyday Body: Le Bone Florence of Rome and Bourgeois Self-Making" in Pulp Fictions, edited by N. McDonald (2004)
*"The moral household" in The Medieval Household in Christian Europe c. 850-c. 1550, edited by C. Beattie, A. Maslovic and S. Rees Jones (2004)
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