Author: Hülya Taflı Düzgün

Dr Hülya Taflı Düzgün teaches medieval English literature at undergraduate and postgraduate levels at the University of Erciyes, Turkey. Her research on “Constantinople in the Romances of Medieval England” at the School of English at the University of Cambridge is supported by an honorary research fellowship from the Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey. Her research interests include non-Chaucerian and non-Arthurian romances, manuscript illumination, space in text and image (with particular reference to the East), the practice of fiction, crossing boundaries (of chronology, discipline, genre), palaeography and textual criticism, as well as codicology. Her publications discuss the depictions of Saracens in medieval English texts and their relation to ideas of nationalism, chivalry, violence, and crusade.