Disenchanted Reception: Amazonian Diversities in Medieval Receptions of Myth

Ellen Söderblom Saarela received her PhD at Linköping University in 2019 with a thesis entitled Her Story in Partonopeu de Blois: Rereading Byzantine Relations, in which she analyzes the anonymous Old French romance Partonopeu de Blois in relation to Byzantine courtly literature, with the main focus put on Eumathios Makrembolites’ novel Hysmine and Hysminias. Her research circles around the novel genre in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, with a specific focus on its courtly reception, such as in Old French romances and Byzantine Komnenian novels, as well as on feminist and gender theory.