Expert Source: Patricia DeMarco, Ph.D.

Patricia DeMarco’s scholarship focuses on 14th and 15th century English and French literature. She is an expert on the depiction of war and vengeance in medieval literature (500-1,500 A.D.) She has secondary expertise in the history of the English language, manuscript production, and the depiction of the Middle Ages in contemporary film.

Education:

• B.A., LeMoyne College
• M.A., State University of New York, Binghamton
• Ph.D., Duke University

Areas of Expertise:

• Medieval English literature
• History of the English language
• History of violence and its legal regulation

Selected Publications:

• DeMarco, Patricia. “Violence, Law and Ciceronian Ethics in Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee.” Studies in the Age of Chaucer. 30 (2008): 125-169.
• “Inscribing the Body with Meaning: Chivalric Culture and the Norms of Violence in The Vows of the Heron,” pp. 27-53. In Inscribing the Hundred Years’ War in French and English Cultures. Ed. Denise Baker. (Albany, NY: State U of New York P; 2000)
• “An Arthur for the Ricardian Age: Crown, Nobility, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure.” 80.2 Speculum: A Journal of Medieval Studies (April 2005): 464-493.
• “Violence, Law and Ciceronian Ethics in Chaucer’s Tale of Melibee.” 30 Studies in the Age of Chaucer (2008): 125-69.