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New editor, new directions: the series broadens its scope to
encompass European literatures other than French and English;
still, however, "an indispensable component of any historical or
Arthurian library". NOTES AND QUERIES This new volume of Arthurian
Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted
to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by
Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch
literature which has recently become accessible to an
English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a
fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain
quite different to the man found in the English Sir Gawain and the
Green Knightor the French Gauvain. Expert readings of the Walewein,
especially commissioned and collected by BART BESAMUSCA and ERIK
KOOPERof the University of Utrecht are provided by a group of
renowned scholars, contributing to the on-going critical appraisal
of the Walewein. KEITH BUSBY is George Lynn Cross Research
Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissane Studies,
University of Oklahoma. Contributors: BART BESAMUSCA, ERIK KOOPER,
WALTER HAUG, DOUGLAS KELLY, NORRIS J. LACY, MATHIAS MEYER, AD
PUTTER, FELICITY RIDDY, THEA SUMMERFIELD, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, BART
VELDHOEN, NORBERT VOORWINDEN, LORI WALTERS
Evidence for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the
sixteenth, but with particular emphasis on later medieval England.
Moving on from the legacy of Aries, these essays address evidence
for childhood and youth from the sixth century to the sixteenth,
but with particular emphasis on later medieval England. The
contents include the idea of childhoodin the writing of Gregory of
Tours, skaldic verse narratives and their implications for the
understanding of kingship, Jewish communities of Northern Europe
for whom children represented the continuity of a persecuted faith,
children in the records of the northern Italian Humiliati, the
meaning of romance narratives centred around the departure of the
hero or heroine from the natal hearth, the age at which later
medieval English youngsters left home, how far they travelled and
where they went, literary sources revealing the politicisation of
the idea of the child, and the response of young, affluent females
to homiletic literature and the iconography of the virgin martyrs
in the later middle ages. Contributors: FRANCES E. ANDREWS, HELEN
COOPER, P.J.P.GOLDBERG, SIMCHA GOLDIN, EDWARD F. JAMES, JUDITH
JESCH, KIM M. PHILLIPS, MIKE TYLER, ROSALYNN VOADEN.
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