Originating from Germany, Albrecht Classen is a medievalist in the Department of German Studies at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He has published more than 40 scholarly monographs, editions, anthology, translations, and textbooks, and close to 400 scholarly articles. He is the editor of "Tristania" and co-editor of "Mediaevistik," Currently Classen is preparing a new volume on "Words of Love and Love of Words in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance," and he is editing a three-volume "Handbook of Medieval Studies" for de Gruyter. In 2004 he received the rank of University Distinguished Prof...