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Ethics in the Arthurian Legend
Melissa Ridley Elmes, Evelyn Meyer; Contributions by Elizabeth Archibald, Steven Steven Bruso, Nichole Burgdorf, …
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An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the
representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature. From its earliest
days, the Arthurian legend has been preoccupied with questions of
good kingship, the behaviours of a ruling class, and their effects
on communities, societies, and nations, both locally and in
imperial and colonizing contexts. Ethical considerations inform and
are informed by local anxieties tied to questions of power and
identity, especially where leadership, service, and governance are
concerned; they provide a framework for understanding how the texts
operate as didactic and critical tools of these subjects. This book
brings together chapters drawing on English, Welsh, German, Dutch,
French, and Norse iterations of the Arthurian legend, and bridging
premodern and modern temporalities, to investigate the
representation of ethics in Arthurian literature across
interdisciplinary and transhistorical lines. They engage a variety
of methodologies, including gender, critical race theory,
philology, literature and the law, translation theory, game
studies, comparative, critical, and close reading, and modern
editorial and authorial practices. Texts interrogated range from
Culhwch and Olwen to Parzival, Roman van Walewein, Tristrams Saga,
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and Malory's Morte Darthur. As a
whole, the approaches and findings in this volume attest to the
continued value and importance of the Arthurian legend and its
scholarship as a vibrant field through which to locate and
understand the many ways in which medieval literature continues to
inform modern sensibilities and institutions, particularly where
the matter of ethics is concerned.
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Arthurian Literature XXXIV (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by David Carlton, Lindy Brady, Neil M.R. Cartlidge, …
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The continued influence and significance of the legend of Arthur
are demonstrated by the articles collected in this volume. The
enduring appeal and rich variety of the Arthurian legend are once
again manifest here. Chretien's Erec et Enide features first in a
case study of the poet's endings and medieval theories of poetic
composition. Next follows an essay that comes to the rather
surprising-but- convincing conclusion that the "traitor" spoken of
in the opening lines of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is neither
Aeneas nor Antenor, but Paris. Another essay dealing with Sir
Gawain, this time in Malory's Morte Darthur, offers among other
things an answer to the question of how Gawain knows the exact hour
of his death. Few native Irish Arthurian tales have come down to
us: a discussion of "The Tale of the Crop-Eared Dog" shows it to be
both bizarre and popular, as witnessed by the many manuscripts in
which it is preserved. The materiality of the Arthurian legend is
represented here by a detailed treatment of the lead cross
supposedly found in the grave of King Arthur at Glastonbury Abbey
in 1191. Finally, this volume continues Arthurian Literature's
tradition of publishing unfamiliar or previously unknown Arthurian
texts, in this instance an original Middle English translation of
the story of the sword in the stone, from the Old French Merlin.
ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham
University, and Principal of StCuthbert's Society; DAVID F. JOHNSON
is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.
Contributors: Lindy Brady, David Carlton, Neil Cartlidge, Nicole
Clifton, Oliver Harris, Richard Moll, Rebecca Newby.
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 richness and
interdisciplinarity of the Arthurian tradition are well represented
by the essays collected here, which range from early Celtic texts
to twentieth-century children's books, and include discussion of
Welsh, Irish,English, French and Latin material in both literary
and historical contexts. Many of the articles focus on less
well-known late medieval versions of the legend, a somewhat
neglected area until recently: an Irish Grail narrative, the
Burgundian prose Erec, the enormous prequel Perceforest, Ysaie le
Triste, Le Conte du Papegau, and Froissart's Melyador (the last
three discussed as exercises in nostalgia). Meanwhile,
anotherchapter approaches Sir Gawain and the Green Knight from the
perspective of forest ecology. The contributions represent expanded
and revised versions of selected papers given at the XXIIIrd
Triennial Congress of the International Arthurian Society held in
Bristol in July 2011; they include two of the plenary lectures, one
on "Celtic Magic" and one on the reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. 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: Richard
Barber, Nigel Bryant, Aisling Byrne, Carol J. Chase, Sian Echard,
Helen Fulton, Michael W. Twomey, Patricia Victorin.
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Arthurian Literature XXXI (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Erin Kissick, Irit Ruth Kleiman, Joan Tasker Grimbert, …
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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 studies collected in this
volume demonstrate the enduring vitality of the Arthurian legend in
a wide range of places, times and media. Chretien's Conte du Graal
features first in a study of the poem's place in its Anglo-Norman
context, followed by four essays on Malory's Morte Darthur. Two of
these deal with the significance of wounds and wounding in Malory's
text, while the third explores the problematic aspects of sleep and
the "slepynge knight" in that same romance. The fourth considers
"transformative female corpses" as, quite literally, the embodiment
of critical comment on the chivalric community in the Morte
Darthur. There follow two studies of the Arthurian legend captured
in material objects: the first concerns the early twelfth-century
images on a marble column from the cathedral at Santiago de
Compostela, the second a twentieth-century tapestry created by Lady
Trevelyan for the family home at Wallington Hall. The volume closes
with an essay that brings us into the twenty-first century, with an
assessment of Kaamelott, an irreverent French Pythonesque
television series. ElizabethArchibald 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: Karen Cherewatuk,Tara
Foster, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Erin Kissick, Irit Ruth Kleiman,
Megan Leitch, Roger Simpson, K.S. Whetter.
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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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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
New examinations of the role storytelling played in medieval life.
The storyteller stands at the crossroads of orality and
performance, surrounded by a circle of rapt listeners. Evelyn Birge
Vitz has challenged a generation of scholars to join the circle,
listen as they read, and exchange pen forperformance. A tribute to
her work, the fifteen essays in this volume attend to the qualities
of voice, their registers and dynamics, whether practiced or
impromptu, falsified, overlapping, interrupted or whispered. They
examinehow the book became a performance venue and reshaped the
storyteller's image and authority, and they investigate the
mutability of stories that move from book to book, place to place
and among competing cultures to stimulate cultural and political
change. They show storytelling as far more than entertainment, but
central to law, religious ritual and teaching, as well as the
primary mode of delivering news. Themes that crisscross the volume
include tensionsamong amateurs and professionals, dominant and
minority languages and cultures, women and children's engagement
with storytelling, animality, religion, translation, travel,
didacticism and entertainment. Kathryn A. Duys is Associate
Professor and Chair of the Department of English and Foreign
Languages at the University of St. Francis in Joliet, Illinois;
Elizabeth Emery is Professor of French and Graduate Coordinator at
Montclair State University; Laurie Postlewate is Senior Lecturer in
French at Barnard College of Columbia University. Contributors:
Elizabeth Archibald, Maureen Boulton, Cristian Bratu, Simonetta
Cochis, Joyce Coleman, Mark Cruse, Kathryn A.Duys, Elizabeth Emery,
Marilyn Lawrence, Kathleen Loysen, Laurie Postlewate, Nancy Freeman
Regalado, Samuel N. Rosenberg, E. Gordon Whatley, Linda Marie
Zaerr.
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Arthurian Literature XXXII (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by David Eugene Clark, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Larissa Tracy, …
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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 essays collected here put
considerable emphasis on Arthurian narratives in material culture
and historical context, as well as on purely literary analysis, a
reminder of the enormous range of interests in Arthurian
narrativesin the Middle Ages, in a number of different contexts.
The volume opens with a study of torture in texts from Chretien to
Malory, and on English law and attitudes in particular. Several
contributors discuss the undeservedly neglected Stanzaic Morte
Arthur, a key source for Malory. His Morte Darthur is the focus of
several essays, respectively on the sources of the "Tale of Sir
Gareth"; battle scenes and the importance of chivalric kingship;
Cicero's De amicitia and the mixed blessings and dangers of
fellowship; and comparison of concluding formulae in the Winchester
Manuscript and Caxton's edition. Seven tantalizing fragments of
needlework, all depictingTristan, are discussed in terms of the
heraldic devices they include. The volume ends with an update on
newly discovered manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's seminal
Historia regum Britanniae, the twelfth-century best-seller which
launched Arthur's literary career. 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. Contibutors: David Eugene
Clark, Marco Nievergelt, Ralph Norris, Sarah Randles, Lisa Robeson,
Richard Severe, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Larissa Tracy
New approaches to the everlasting malleability and transformation
of medieval romance. The essays here reconsider the protean nature
of Middle English romance. The contributors examine both the
cultural unity of romance and its many variations, reiterations and
reimaginings, including its contexts and engagements with other
discourses and forms, as they were "rewritten" during the Middle
Ages and beyond. Ranging across popular, anonymous English and
courtly romances, and taking in the works of Chaucer and Arthurian
romance (rarely treated together), in connection with continental
sources and analogues, the chapters probe this fluid and creative
genre to ask just how comfortable, and how flexible, are its nature
and aims? How were Middle English romances rewritten toaccommodate
contemporary concerns and generic expectations? What can attention
to narrative techniques and conventional gestures reveal about the
reassurances romances offer, or the questions they ask? How do
romances' central concerns with secular ideals and conduct
intersect with spiritual priorities? And how are romances
transformed or received in later periods? The volume is also a
tribute to the significance and influence of the work of Professor
Helen Cooper on romance. Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of
English Studies at Durham University; Megan G. Leitch is Senior
Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University; Corinne
Saunders is Professor of English andCo-Director of the Centre for
Medical Humanities at Durham University. Contributors: Elizabeth
Archibald, Julia Boffey, Christopher Cannon, Neil Cartlidge, Miriam
Edlich-Muth, A.S.G. Edwards, Marcel Elias, Megan Leitch, Andrew
Lynch, Jill Mann, Marco Nievergelt, Ad Putter, Corinne Saunders,
Barry Windeatt, R.F. Yeager
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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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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
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers
some 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. Topics range from early Celtic
sources and analogues of Arthurian plots to popular interest in
King Arthur in sixteenth-century London, from the
thirteenth-century French prose Mort Artu to Tennyson's Idylls of
the King. It includes discussion of shapeshifters and loathly
ladies, attitudes to treason, royal deaths and funerals in the
fifteenth century and the nineteenth, late medieval Scottish
politics and early modern chivalry. Elizabeth Archibald is
Professor of English, University of Durhaml; Professor David F.
Johnson teaches in the English Department, Florida State
University, Tallahassee. Contributors: Aisling Byrne, Emma
Campbell, P.J.C. Field, Kenneth Hodges, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch,
Sue Niebrzydowski, Karen Robinson.
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Arthurian Literature XXV (Hardcover)
Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson; Contributions by Carolyne Larrington, Martine Meuwese, Michael W Twomey, …
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The most recent research in matters Arthurian, by leading scholars
in the field. The essays in this volume represent a wide range of
Arthurian subjects, reaching as far back as the sixth century, and
as far forward as the nineteenth; they include studies of Arthur as
an icon of an independent England in the reign of Henry VIII, the
source of Geoffrey of Monmouth's knowledge of Merlin, Malory's
Morte Darthur, and the works of Chretien - both in literature and
in depictions of scenes from his romances in ivory caskets from the
Middle Ages and beyond. Of special interest is the appearance for
the first time in print of a newly discovered Arthurian text: a
letter in Anglo-Norman French purportedly written by Morgan le Fay.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English, University of Durham;
DAVID F. JOHNSON is Professor of English, Florida State University.
CONTRIBUTORS: CAROLYNE LARRINGTON, MARTINE MEUWESE, STEWART
MOTTRAM, RALUCA RADULESCU, NICOLAI TOLSTOY, MICHAEL TWOMEY
Articles on comedy in Arthurian romance - French, Dutch, Italian,
Scottish and English. The texts analyzed underline the wide
dissemination of the Arthurian story in medieval and post-medieval
Europe, from Scotland to Italy, while the various analyses of the
manifestations of comedy refute the notion of romance as
ahumourless genre. Indeed, the comic treatment of conventional
themes and motifs appears to be not only characteristic of later
romance but an essential element of the genre from its beginnings
and from its earliest development. Authors of Arthurian romance,
from Chretien de Troyes to Malory, writing in French, Italian,
Middle Dutch, and Middle English, and the creators of an Irish
prose-tale, all question the fundamental assumptions of romance and
romancevalues through the medium of comedy. The theme of comedy in
Arthurian romance has been developed from the orignal session at
the Arthurian Congress in Toulouse. Contributors: ELIZABETH
ARCHIBALD, FRANK BRANDSMA, CHRISTINE FERLAMPIN-ACHER, LINDA GOWANS,
DONALD L. HOFFMAN, MARGOLEIN HOGENBIRK, NORRIS J. LACY, MARILYN
LAWRENCE, BENEDICTE MILLAND-BOVE, PETER S. NOBLE, KAREN PRATT,
ANGELICA RIEGER, ELIZABETH S. SKLAR, FRANCESCO ZAMBON.
Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers
some fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical
issues. TIMES LITERARYSUPPLEMENT The Arthurian material collected
in this volume ranges widely in time and space, from a Latin
romance based on Welsh sources to the post-Christian Arthur of
modern fiction and film. It begins with a tribute to the late Derek
Brewer, a reprinting of the classic introduction to his edition of
the last two tales of Malory's Morte Darthur. Further subjects
covered include a possible source manuscript for Malory's first
tale; the "Arthuricity" of the little-known Latin romance Arthur
and Gorlagon; images of sterility and fertility in the
continuations of Chretien's Conte du Graal; and early modern
responses to Geoffrey of Monmouth's account of Arthur's dealings
withRome. Norris Lacy ranges widely over the evolution of the
Arthurian legend, and Ronald Hutton considers representations of
both Christian and pagan religion in modern novels and cinema. The
volume ends with a bibliographical supplement on recent additions
to Arthurian fiction. CONTRIBUTORS: Derek Brewer, Jonathan Passaro,
Amanda Hopkins, Thomas Hinton, Sian Echard, Norris Lacy, Ronald
Hutton, Raymond Thompson.
A comparative study of one of the most familiar stories in medieval
romance (used by Gower, Shakespeare, etc.), from late Antiquity
into the Renaissance. The Historia Apollonii is a rare Latin
example of a genre of literature more fully attested in Greek, the
so-called `Greek romance' - popular stories which involve lovers or
families separated byshipwreck and misfortune andeventually
joyfully reunited. It was one of the most widely and continuously
read texts to survive from late Antiquity through the middle ages
and into the Renaissance almost unchanged. Elizabeth Archibald's
study of the Historia Apollonii, taking a valuable comparative
approach, discusses the text's merits and interest, its date and
possible origin, the present state of scholarship, and the question
of its reception and genre in the middle ages and Renaissance.
There follows a complete survey of the medieval and early
Renaissance use and knowledge of the Historia Apollonii throughout
Europe; and the book is completed with the text and translation of
the romance itself. An indispensable work for students of medieval
romance. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English, Durham
University.
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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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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.
Major themes explored are narratives of the disguised prince, and
the reinvention of stories for different tastes and periods. These
studies cover a wide chronological range and familiar and
unfamiliar texts and topics. The disguised prince is a theme
linking several articles, from early Anglo-Norman romances through
later English ones, like King Edward and the Shepherd, to a late
16th-century recasting of the Havelok story as a Tudor celebration
of Gloriana. 'Translation' in its widest sense, the way romance can
reinvent stories for different tastes and periods, is
anotherrunning theme; the opening introductory article considers
the topic of translation theoretically, concerned to stimulate
further research on how insular romances were transferred between
vernaculars and literary systems, while other essays consider
Lovelich's Merlin (a poem translating its Arthurian material to the
poet's contemporary London milieu), Chaucer, and Breton lays in
England. Contributors: JUDITH WEISS, IVANA DJORDJEVIC, ROSALIND
FIELD, MORGAN DICKSON, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, AMANDA HOPKINS, ARLYN
DIAMOND, PAUL PRICE, W.A. DAVENPORT, RACHEL SNELL, ROGER DALRYMPLE,
HELEN COOPER. Selected studies, 'Romance in Medieval England'
conference.
Romance studies from the twelfth century to the era of the printed
book. From the insular romance of the twelfth century (vital to an
understanding of the literary and historical context of medieval
English literature) to the era of the printed book, romance
challenges generic definition, audience expectation and established
scholarly approaches. This third volume of papers from the regular
conference on Romance in Medieval England uses a broad range of
material and methodologies to illuminate the subject. Topics
include the strategies and audiences of crusading romances, the
deployment by Chaucer and Gower of romance theme and style, a
re-evaluation of the text of Gamelyn, and the shifting generic
boundaries between romance, exemplum and legal narrative. Other
papers explore the transformation of traditional material on the
revenant dead and the divided family from ancient literary texts to
the prose romances of the sixteenth century. Dr ROSALIND FIELD
teachesin the Department of English at Royal Holloway, University
of London. Contributors: JUDITH WEISS, STEPHEN KNIGHT, NOEL JAMES
MENUGE, DIANE SPEED, ELIZABETH WILLIAMS, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, ROBERT
WARM, JOERG FICHTE, NANCY MASON BRADBURY, JEREMY DIMMICK, ELIZABETH
ARCHIBALD, HELEN COOPER
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A Companion to Malory (Paperback, New Ed)
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Malory's Morte Darthur - text, history and reception - expertly
appraised by international scholars. This collection of original
essays by an international group of distinguished medievalists
provides a comprehensive introduction to the great work of Sir
Thomas Malory, which will be indispensable for both students and
scholars. It is divided into three main sections, on Malory in
context, the art of the Morte Darthur, and its reception in later
years. As well as essays on the eight tales which make up the Morte
Darthur, there are studies ofthe relationship between the
Winchestermanuscript and Caxton's and later editions; the political
and social context in which Malory wrote; his style and sources;
and his treatment of two key concepts in Arthurian literature,
chivalry and the representation of women. The volume also includes
a brief biography of Malory with a list of the historical records
relating to him and his family. It ends with a discussion of the
reception of the Morte Darthurfrom the sixteenth to the twentieth
centuries, and a select bibliography. Contributors: P.J.C. FIELD,
FELICITY RIDDY, RICHARD BARBER, ELIZABETH EDWARDS, TERENCE
MCCARTHY, CAROL MEALE, JEREMY SMITH, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD,BARBARA
NOLAN, HELEN COOPER, JILL MANN, DAVID BENSON, A.S.G. EDWARDS
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Arthurian Literature VIII (Hardcover)
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Continuing its policy of publishing extended explorations of
Arthurian subjects, this eighth volume of Arthurian Literature
contains four articles. Elizabeth Archibald addresses the reasons
for the insertion of the story of Mordred's incestuous birth into
many versions of the Arthurian legend (including Malory's) from the
early 13th century on, and follows its development from the Vulgate
Cycle to later Arthurian narratives. The use of irony to point up
aspects of the Lancelot-Guinevere relationship in the prologue to
Le Chavalier de la Charrete is explored by Jan Janssens. The early
13th-century Romance of Fergus is introduced and translated by
D.D.R. Owen, who finds it of special interest not just because of
its uniquely Scottish setting, but also because its use of parody
foreshadows later medieval comedy; Scottish concerns also figure in
Edward Donald Kennedy's discussion of the 15th-century chronicler
John Hardyng's use of the story of Galahad's grail quest, and the
changes he made.
For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and
his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They
have inspired some of the most important works of European
literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of
Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the
nineteenth century, interest in the Arthurian legend revived with
Tennyson, Wagner and Twain. This Companion outlines the evolution
of the legend from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot,
and analyses how some of the major motifs of the legend have been
passed down in both medieval and modern texts. With a map of
Arthur's Britain, a chronology of key texts and a guide to further
reading, this volume itself will contribute to the continuing
fascination with the King and his many legends.
For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and
his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They
have inspired some of the most important works of European
literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of
Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain
and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the
nineteenth century, interest in the Arthurian legend revived with
Tennyson, Wagner and Twain. This Companion outlines the evolution
of the legend from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot,
and analyses how some of the major motifs of the legend have been
passed down in both medieval and modern texts. With a map of
Arthur's Britain, a chronology of key texts and a guide to further
reading, this volume itself will contribute to the continuing
fascination with the King and his many legends.
Incest was a social problem in the Middle Ages, and also a popular literary theme. This wide-ranging study is the first survey of medieval incest stories in their cultural context. Did they reflect real life situations? How was incest defined in the Middle Ages? How were classical incest stories treated by medieval writers? Why was incest such a popular motif in the legendary lives of popes and saints, and why was it inserted into the stories of great heroes such as Charlemagne and Arthur?
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