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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.
In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley
Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies
examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts
ranging from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries and
forward to their cinematic adaptations. Along with fresh insights
into the popular Robin Hood legend, these essays investigate the
intersections of outlawry, food studies, and feasting in Old
English, Middle English, and French outlaw narratives,
Anglo-Scottish border ballads, early modern ballads and dramatic
works, and cinematic medievalism. The range of critical and
disciplinary approaches employed, including history, literary
studies, cultural studies, food studies, gender studies, and film
studies, highlights the inherently interdisciplinary nature of
outlaw narratives. The overall volume offers an example of the ways
in which examining a subject through interdisciplinary,
cross-geographic and cross-temporal lenses can yield fresh
insights; places canonic and well-known works in conversation with
lesser-known texts to showcase the dynamic nature and cultural
influence and impact of premodern outlaw tales; and presents an
introductory foray into the intersection of literary and food
studies in premodern contexts which will be of value and interest
to specialists and a general audience, alike.
In Food and Feast in Premodern Outlaw Tales editors Melissa Ridley
Elmes and Kristin Bovaird-Abbo gather eleven original studies
examining scenes of food and feasting in premodern outlaw texts
ranging from the tenth through the seventeenth centuries and
forward to their cinematic adaptations. Along with fresh insights
into the popular Robin Hood legend, these essays investigate the
intersections of outlawry, food studies, and feasting in Old
English, Middle English, and French outlaw narratives,
Anglo-Scottish border ballads, early modern ballads and dramatic
works, and cinematic medievalism. The range of critical and
disciplinary approaches employed, including history, literary
studies, cultural studies, food studies, gender studies, and film
studies, highlights the inherently interdisciplinary nature of
outlaw narratives. The overall volume offers an example of the ways
in which examining a subject through interdisciplinary,
cross-geographic and cross-temporal lenses can yield fresh
insights; places canonic and well-known works in conversation with
lesser-known texts to showcase the dynamic nature and cultural
influence and impact of premodern outlaw tales; and presents an
introductory foray into the intersection of literary and food
studies in premodern contexts which will be of value and interest
to specialists and a general audience, alike.
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