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Professor Joseph J. Duggan, emeritus professor at the University of California (Berkeley) is an eminent scholar of Medieval Studies who has written seminal works on Romance Literatures (and Old French Epics in particular). His work ranges from editions of medieval classics such as the Chanson de Roland to articles about troubadours' lyrics and a monograph on Chretien de Troyes. Here, fifteen contributions from his former students and colleagues offer literary, narratological, philological, and contextual studies of the texts he has taught and researched over his long and prestigious career."