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Elizabeth Archibald is Reader in Medieval Studies at the University of Bristol. She is the co-editor, with A. S. G. Edwards, of A Companion to Malory (1996), and has published numerous essays on Arthurian literature; she is currently co-editing, with Ad Putter, The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend (forthcoming 2008). She is also the author of Apollonius of Tyre (1991) and Incest and the Medieval Imagination (2001). Susan Aronstein is Professor of English at the University of Wyoming and the author of Hollywood Knights: Arthurian Cinema and the Politics of Nostalgia (2005). She has also published articles on medieval French and Welsh Arthurian romances, Arthurian film, and medievalism and popular culture. She and Robert Torry are currently co-writing a book on the films of Steven Spielberg. Geraldine Barnes has a personal chair in medieval literature at the University of Sydney. Her main research interests are the ethos and development of romance in medieval England and Iceland, the reception of Old French chivalric narrative in Scandinavia, the Norse “discovery” of America as related in the “Vinland sagas,” and medieval influences on early modern English travel writing. Her books include Counsel and Strategy in Middle English Romance (1993), Viking America: The First Millennium (2001), and the edited collection Travel and Travellers from Bede to Dampier ... log in or subscribe to read full text