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The Arthurian Name Dictionary (Hardcover)
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The Arthurian Name Dictionary (Hardcover)
Series: Garland Reference Library of the Humanities
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A comprehensive reference source for Arthurian studies, "The
Arthurian Name Dictionary" is a comprehensive encyclopedia of
characters, places, objects, and themes found in the legends of
King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The volume makes
available, for the first time, a complete catalogue of these names,
drawn from all significant Arthurian sources between Gildas's "De
Excidio Britanniae "(the first "Arthurian" source, written c. 540)
and Tennyson's nineteenth-century "Idylls of the Kin" (which began
the modern era of Arthurian literature)
Covers all of Arthurian-informative, detailed, and extensive, The
enormous number of characters and places in the vast body of
literature called Arthuriana confounds even the most learned
Arthurian scholars. "The Arthurian Name Dictionary "contains names
extracted from over 250 original Arthurian texts. Its pages include
information on characters such as Lancelot and Gawain; places such
as Camelot and Camlann; objects such as Excalibur and the Holy
Grail; and themes such as the Sword-in-the-Stone and the Beheading
Game. Each entry provides a complete, accurate description of the
name, including, when possible, the origins or historical basis of
the name, and any counterparts with different names in other
sources. Major characters and themes are discussed extensively, and
their evolution through the series of texts is carefully
traced
Offers more coverage than previous encyclopedias and dictionaries
on Arthurian, "The Arthurian Name Dictionary" outdoes previous
encyclopedias and dictionaries concerned with Arthurian subjects by
including a far greater number of sources, by including a far
greater number of names from those sources, and by discussing each
name in far greater detail.
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