Edward Donald Kennedy

Edward Donald Kennedy wrote Chronicles and Other Historical Writing as volume 8 of A Manual of the Writings in Middle English (New Haven: Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1989) and edited a collection of essays, King Arthur: A Casebok (New York: Garland, 1996; reprint Routledge, 2002), with an introductory essay on the character of King Arthur in medieval and modern literature and a select bibliography. He has published numerous articles on medieval romance and chronicles and has been particularly interested in Malory, the Alliterative Morte Arthure, the Stanzaic Morte Arthur, Chaucer, Gower, and French prose Arthurian romances. Current projects are a co-edited edition of short medieval Scottish chronicles to be published by Boydell and Brewer and a co-edited collection of essays on medieval genealogies to be published by Brepols. He is also subject editor for chronicles produced in the UK for the forthcoming Brill Encyclopedia of the Medieval Chronicle. A long term project is a study of the Arthurian legend in England. Recent work includes articles on Sir Thomas Malory, William Caxton, the Flemish chronicler Jehan de Waurin, the English chronicler John Hardyng, the French romance author Robert de Boron, Mark Twain's Connecticut Yankee, and entries on Thomas de Wykes, Robert of Gloucester, and William Warkworth for the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. He has given plenary addresses at the international conference on the medieval chronicle at Utrecht, at the Fortunes of Arthur conference at Penn State, at the medieval/Renaissance conference at the University of Virginia's College at Wise, at a meeting of the Japanese branch of the International Arthurian Society at Keio University in Tokyo, and at a conference on medieval romance at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is editor of Studies in Philology, and is on the editorial boards of Arthuriana, The Medieval Chronicle (Rodopi) and the Medieval Chronicle monograph series (Boydell & Brewer).