William W. Kibler was the Linward Shivers-Oil Centennial Professor of Medieval Studies in the Department of French and Italian at the University of Texas, Austin. He has worked extensively on Chretien de Troyes, Guillaume de Merchaut, and the French chansons de geste. He recently completed an edition of he Lyon manuscript of the Song of Roland and has published editions of Lion de Bourges (with Jean-Louis Picherit and Thelma Fenster) and Huone de Bordeaux (with Francois Suard), as well as a translation of Raoul de Cambrai. He is the author of An Introduction to Old French. Leslie Zarker Morgan is associate professor of modern languages and literatures at Loyola College. She has published an English translation of Ariosto's Cinque canti; edited The Foreign Language Classroom: Bridging Theory and Practice, with M. A. Haggstrom and J. A. Wieczorek; edited Dante: Summa Medioevalis, with Charles Franco; written articles on Franco-Italian texts; and edited the Geste Francor, which is forthcoming.
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The depth and breadth of this volume are impressive, as much for the different subjects broached as for the range of specialists who participated in its creation. I particularly appreciate the attention paid, by almost all the authors, to tying the Song of Roland to our contemporary world and modern artisitic productions--operas, plays, movies, comics, and so on. --Francois Denis, Macalester College