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William C. McDonald

University of Virginia, USA

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William C. McDonald is a full professor of German and Judaic Studies at the University of Virginia, where he has taught for almost fifty years. Michel Beheim and King Arthur have been the focal points of his research. His recent scholarship investigates the representation of King Arthur in medieval and early modern chronicles. Recent publications are: “The ‘Jew in the Latrine:’ Exploring the Transmission of an Early German Anti-Jewish Narrative,” Medieval Encounters 28 (2022); “Polydore Vergil as Arthurian Witness: On King Arthur and Count Hoyer the Red in the Mansfeldische chronica (1572) of Cyriakus Spangenberg,” Studies in Philology 121 (2024), no. 2; and “A New Version of the Nine Worthies: King Arthur, the Ottoman Turks, and a Call for a Crusade in a German Poem, ca. 1459,” Wolfenbütteler Renaissance-Mitteilungen 40 (2024).