'Piecing the Puzzle: Reflecting on the Dating of the Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy'

Joan E. McRae, PhD (1997), University of Virginia, is Professor of French and Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at Middle Tennessee State University.  Her research interests encompass 15th century French poetry, Arthurian and Grail literature, and the Romance of the Rose.  She has published two critcal edtions of the poems of the Quarrel of the Belle Dame Sans Mercy (Routledge and Champion) and is co-editor in the Yale 229 Arthurian Cycle series (Brepols); her current project is a mongraph on the literary quarrels of the Romance of the Rose and the Belle Dame Sans Mercy with Floriday UP.