Raluca L. Radulescu is professor of medieval literature at

Bangor University , former_names = University College of North Wales (1884–1996) University of Wales, Bangor (1996–2007) , image = File:Arms_of_Bangor_University.svg , image_size = 250px , caption = Arms ...

. She is a specialist in Arthurian and non-Arthurian romances including

Sir Thomas Malory Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author of ''Le Morte d'Arthur'', the classic English-language chronicle of the Arthurian legend, compiled and in most cases translated from French sources. The most popular version of ''Le Morte d'Ar ...

and pious romances, medieval chronicles,

political culture Political culture describes how culture impacts politics. Every political system is embedded in a particular political culture. Definition Gabriel Almond defines it as "the particular pattern of orientations toward political actions in which ...

and gentry studies.Raluca Radulescu, BA, MPhil, PhD.
Bangor University. Retrieved 23 October 2015. Radulescu received her BA at the University of Bucharest and her MPhil and PhD at the

University of Manchester , mottoeng = Knowledge, Wisdom, Humanity , established = 2004 – University of Manchester Predecessor institutions: 1956 – UMIST (as university college; university 1994) 1904 – Victoria University of Manchester 1880 – Victoria Univer ...

. She has held fellowships at New Europe College, Institute for Advanced Studies, (Bucharest), Maison des Sciences de l’Homme (Paris) and the Huntington Library (as Andrew Mellon fellow).

Selected publications

*"Sir Thomas Malory and Fifteenth-Century Political Ideas", ''Arthuriana'' 13:3 (2003), 36-51. *''The Gentry Context for Malory’s Morte Darthur''. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2003. *"Malory’s Lancelot and the Key to Salvation",

Arthurian Literature The Matter of Britain is the body of medieval literature and legendary material associated with Great Britain and Brittany and the legendary kings and heroes associated with it, particularly King Arthur. It was one of the three great Western ...

25 (2008), 93-118. *''Broken Lines: Genealogical Literature in Medieval Britain and France'', co-ed. with Edward Donald Kennedy, Medieval Texts and Cultures of Northern Europe 16. Turnhout: Brepols, 2008. Includes own chapter, "Genealogy in Insular Romance", pp. 7–25. *''Romance and Its Contexts in Fifteenth-century England: Politics, Piety and Penitence''. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2013.

References

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