Featured Publication: Studies in Arthurian and Chronicle Traditions in Memory of Fiona Tolhurst
Publication Title
Studies in Arthurian and Chronicle Traditions in Memory of Fiona Tolhurst
Co-Editor
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer
Publication Date
August 2025
About the Book
In her all-too-short but ground-breaking academic career, Fiona Tolhurst made significant contributions to the discipline of Arthurian Studies, advancing, amongst much else, understanding of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Arthurian Women, the English Mortes, and modern Arthuriana, including cinematic versions of the legend. The essays assembled here reflect her commitment to explication of Arthurian and Chronicle texts and contexts.
About the Editor
Dorsey Armstrong is a professor of English at Purdue University. Armstrong received her Ph.D. from Duke University in 1998, Armstrong specializes in Middle English Language and Literature, Arthurian Literature, Old English Language and Literature, and Gender and Feminist Studies. She taught at Centenary College of Louisiana and California State University, Long Beach before joining the Purdue English Department. She has published extensively on Arthurian literature, Malory's Morte Darthur, and William Caxton, with articles appearing in Arthuriana, Arizona Studies in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society, Essays in Medieval Studies, Exemplaria, and various essay collections. Her book, Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory's Morte d'Arthur, was published in 2003 by University Press of Florida. Her modern English translation of Malory's Morte Darthur appeared in 2009 from Parlor Press. Professor Armstrong is editor-in-chief of the academic journal Arthuriana, and sits on the board of directors of TEAMS (the Consortium for the Teaching of the Middle Ages). Her current book project is a study of the role geography and fifteenth-century politics played in shaping Malory's Morte Darthur.