User:Ingledew

I'm Francis Ingledew, an English (my focus, not my nationality!) literary medievalist at Fairleigh Dickinson University in New Jersey, USA. I make heavy use of Wikipedia, which has been enormously useful, no, more than that, invaluable, for my entry into medieval areas I don't specialize in. Minutes ago, came across an obviously accidental but bad error in just such an article, on the twelfth-century legal collection called Quadripartitus, and this drew me across the line into a tiny contribution, which required opening an account, and here I am, unexpectedly.

My specialties: English medieval literature, which means largely fourteenth-century England, and the medieval historiography of Britain, meaning what medieval writers wrote about the history of the island of Britain. This means more than anything the work and the reception of the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth's twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain--which should probably be retitled. More on that later!