Arthur and the grail stories appeared in this French prose cycle
together for the first time; scholars explore its social,
historical, literary and manuscript contexts and account for its
enduring interest. The early thirteenth-century French prose
Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories
of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that
continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing
what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction
in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic
compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for
three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the
first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the
Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in
this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work
in its social, historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In
addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts that make
up the Cycle, the contributors convey to modern readers the appeal
that the text must have had for its medieval audiences, and the
richness of composition that made it compelling. This volume will
become standard reading for scholars, students, and more general
readers interested in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, medieval romance,
Malory studies, and the Arthurian legends. Contributors: RICHARD
BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA,
MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES,HELEN COOPER,
CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY,
ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE,
HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER
is associate professor of French and director of undergraduate
studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.
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