PhD Candidate, Medieval Literature, Bangor University
Madeleine S. Killacky is a medievalist and her research focuses on praise and materiality in fifteenth-century literature. Her current work examines the paratextual elements of Thomas Malory’s 'Morte Darthur' to suggest that the elements that make up the written text -- page size, rubrications, scribal interferences, and other suggestive markings -- directly inflect textual meaning. Ultimately, her work explores how the scribes, printers, and editors' roles in the making of early books shaped the future reading experiences of these books.
Madeleine holds degrees in English Literature and Biology and has presented her research at a number of conferences internationally, including the University of Oxford, University of Leeds International Medieval Congress, University of Edinburgh, and Acadia University. She is a member of the Royal Historical Society and Royal Society of Biology, and writes public scholarship for History Today and Conservation Physiology.

How J.R.R. Tolkien's novels were inspired by Medieval poems of 'northern bravery'
Sep 04, 2023 05:40 am UTC| Entertainment
In a moment of distraction from the laborious work of marking an enormous pile of examination papers, J.R.R. Tolkien flipped to a blank page on a student essay and scribbled, in a hole in the ground there lived a...