The Author: Marie-Françoise Alamichel was educated at the Sorbonne from where she received a Ph.D. for her thematic study and translation of twelfth-century Layamon’s Brut. She was a lecturer in English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne for ten years and is currently Professor of English Medieval Studies at the University of Marne-la-Vallée (France). She has published many articles on the early Arthurian corpus, and medieval ideas, feelings and values.

• Contents: The Anglo-Saxon Period: Widowhood and Remarriage - The Legal Status of Widows - The Economic (In)dependence of Widows – The Medieval Period: Widowhood and Remarriage - The Socio-economic Reality of Widowhood.

The Author: Marie-Françoise Alamichel was educated at the Sorbonne from where she received a Ph.D. for her thematic study and translation of twelfth-century Layamon’s Brut. She was a lecturer in English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne for ten years and is currently Professor of English Medieval Studies at the University of Marne-la-Vallée (France). She has published many articles on the early Arthurian corpus, and medieval ideas, feelings and values.

• Contents: The Anglo-Saxon Period: Widowhood and Remarriage - The Legal Status of Widows - The Economic (In)dependence of Widows – The Medieval Period: Widowhood and Remarriage - The Socio-economic Reality of Widowhood.

The Author: Marie-Françoise Alamichel was educated at the Sorbonne from where she received a Ph.D. for her thematic study and translation of twelfth-century Layamon’s Brut. She was a lecturer in English at the University of Paris IV-Sorbonne for ten years and is currently Professor of English Medieval Studies at the University of Marne-la-Vallée (France). She has published many articles on the early Arthurian corpus, and medieval ideas, feelings and values.

• Contents: The Anglo-Saxon Period: Widowhood and Remarriage - The Legal Status of Widows - The Economic (In)dependence of Widows – The Medieval Period: Widowhood and Remarriage - The Socio-economic Reality of Widowhood.