Dr Marianne Ailes
Email: marianne.ailes@bris.ac.uk
Telephone: 0117 928 9773
Fax: 0117 3318010
Research Interests
Lecturer in French Marianne Ailes' research interests are in Medieval French literature, in particular the (frequently politically engaged) chansons de geste and early vernacular chronicles. She is actively involved in editing and translating as well as interpretative studies. Much of her research is focused on literature of the crusades, the perception and depiction of the Other, either the Saracen or the female Other, and intertextual readings of texts. She is currently working on the unconverted Saracens of the chansons de geste and engaged in a collaborative project on Charlemagne in England with Phillipa Hardman (Dept of English, University of Reading).
Publications
She has co-edited, and translated Ambroise, History of the Holy War / Estoire de la guerre sainte, 2 vols (Woodbridge: Boydell and Brewer, 2003) with Malcolm Barber. Her publications include, The Song of Roland: on Absolutes and Relative Values (Lampeter: Edwin Mellen Press, 2002)