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First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the
long twelfth century. The precedent of empire and the promise of
return lay at the heart of King Arthur's appeal in the Middle Ages.
Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century:
monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age
that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less
remote. Arthurianism, the practice of invoking and emulating the
legendary Arthur of post-Roman Britain, was thus an instance of
medieval medievalism. This book provides a comprehensive history of
the first 150 years of Arthurianism, from its beginnings under
Henry II of England to a highpoint under Edward I. It contends that
the Plantagenet kings of England mockingly ascribed a literal
understanding of the myth of King Arthur's return to the Brittonic
Celts whilst adopting for themselves a figurative and typological
interpretation of the myth. A central figure in this work is Arthur
of Brittany (1187-1203), who, for more than a generation, was the
focus of Arthurian hopes and their disappointment.
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Arthurian Literature XXIX (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Bart Besamusca, Christopher Michael Berard, Dorsey Armstrong, …
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R2,008
Discovery Miles 20 080
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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT The influence and significance of
the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter
and time-span of articles here, ranging from a mid twelfth-century
Latin vita of the Welsh saint Dyfrig to the early modernArthur of
the Dutch. Topics addressed include the reasons for Edward III's
abandonment of the Order of the Round Table; the 1368 relocation of
Arthur's tomb at Glastonbury Abbey; the evidence for our knowledge
of the French manuscript sources for Malory's first tale, in
particular the Suite du Merlin; and the central role played by
Cornwall in Malory's literary worldview. Meanwhile, a survey of the
pan-European aspects of medieval Arthurian literature, considering
key characters in both familiar and less familiar languages such as
Old Norse and Hebrew, further outlines its popularity and impact.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English, University of
Durham;Professor David F. Johnson teaches in the English
Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee. Contributors:
Dorsey Armstrong, Christopher Berard, Bart Besamusca, P.J.C. Field,
Linda Gowans, Sjoerd Levelt, JulianM. Luxford, Ryan Naughton,
Jessica Quinlan, Joshua Byron Smith
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Arthurian Literature XXXIII (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Christopher Michael Berard, Erich Poppe, Georgia Henley, …
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R2,188
Discovery Miles 21 880
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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT A wide range of Arthurian
material is discussed here, reflecting its diversity, and enduring
vitality. Geoffrey of Monmouth's best-selling Historia regum
Britannie is discussed in the context of Geoffrey's reception in
Wales and the relationship between Latin and Welsh literary
culture. Two essays deal with the Middle English Ywain and Gawain:
the first offers a comparative study of the Middle English poem
alongside Chretien's Yvainand the Welsh Owein, while the second
considers Ywain and Gawain with the Alliterative Morte Arthure in
their northern English cultural and political context, the world of
the Percys and the Nevilles. It isfollowed by a discussion of
Edward III's recuperation of his abandoned Order of the Round
Table, which offers an intriguing explanation for this reversal in
the context of Edward's victory over the French at Poitiers. The
final essay is a comparison of fifteenth- and twentieth-century
portrayals of Camelot in Malory and T.H. White, as both idea and
locale, and a centre of hearsay and gossip. The volume is completed
with a unique and little-known medievalGreek Arthurian poem,
presented in facing-page edition and modern English translation.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham
University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society; David F.
Johnson is Professor of English at Florida State University,
Tallahassee. Contributors: Christopher Berard, Louis J. Boyle,
Thomas H. Crofts, Ralph Hanna, Georgia Lynn Henley, Erich Poppe
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Arthurian Literature XXXV (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Andrew Rabin, Carl B. Sell, Christopher Michael Berard, …
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R2,186
Discovery Miles 21 860
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The continued influence and significance of the legend of Arthur
are demonstrated by the articles collected in this volume. The rich
vitality of both the Arthurian material itself and the scholarship
devoted to it is manifested in this volume. It begins with an
interdisciplinary study of swords belonging to Arthurian and other
heroes and of the smithswho made them, assessed both in their
literary contexts and in "historical" references to their existence
as heroic relics. Two essays then consider the use of Arthurian
material for political purposes: a discussion of Caradog's Vita
Gildae throws light on the complex attitudes to Arthur of
contemporaries of Geoffrey of Monmouth in a time of political
turmoil in England, and an investigation into borrowings from
Geoffrey's Historia in a chronicle of Anglo-Scottish relations in
the time of Edward I, a well-known admirer of the Arthurian legend,
argues that they would have appealed to the clerical elite. Romance
motifs link the subsequent pieces: women and their friendships in
Ywain and Gawain, the only known close English adaptation of a
romance by Chretien, and the mixture of sacred and secular in The
Turke and Gawain, with fascinating alchemical parallels for a
puzzling beheading episode. This is followed by a discussion of the
views on native and foreign sources of three sixteenth-century
defenders of Arthur, John Leland, John Prise and Humphrey Llwyd,
and their responses to the criticisms of Polydore Vergil. In
twentieth-century reception history, John Steinbeck was an ardent
Arthurian enthusiast: an essay looks at the significance of his
annotations to his copy of Malory as he worked on his adaptation,
The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights. The volume moves to
even more recent territory with an exploration of the adaptations
of Malory and other Arthurian writers that occur in the comic books
by Geoff Johns about Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, King of Atlantis.
The book is completed by a reprint of a classic essay by Norris
Lacy on the absence and presence of the Grail in Arthurian texts
from the twelfth century on.
First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the
long twelfth century. The precedent of empire and the promise of
return lay at the heart of King Arthur's appeal in the Middle Ages.
Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century:
monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age
that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less
remote. Arthurianism, the practice of invoking and emulating the
legendary Arthur of post-Roman Britain, was thus an instance of
medieval medievalism. This book provides a comprehensive history of
the first 150 years of Arthurianism, from its beginnings under
Henry II of England to a highpoint under Edward I. It contends that
the Plantagenet kings of England mockingly ascribed a literal
understanding of the myth of King Arthur's return to the Brittonic
Celts whilst adopting for themselves a figurative and typological
interpretation of the myth. A central figure in this work is Arthur
of Brittany (1187-1203), who, for more than a generation, was the
focus of Arthurian hopes and their disappointment. CHRISTOPHER
MICHAEL BERARD is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at
Providence College. He completed his PhD at the University of
Toronto's Centre for Medieval Studies.
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