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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 Guest Editors: Sarah Bowden,
Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer This special issue focuses on
space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of
European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections
between quest space and individual spirituality in the Vulgate
Queste and Malory's Morte Darthur; penitence in Hartmann's Iwein
and Gregorius; parallels in sacred spaces in the Matter of Britain
and medieval Ireland; political prophecy in Sir Gawain and the
Green Knight and The Awntyrs off Arthure A; syntagmatic and
paradigmatic spaces in Chrétien's Perceval; spatial significance
in Wigalois and Prosa Lancelot; the political meaning of the tomb
of King Lot and the rebel kings in Malory's Morte Darthur; and
sexual spaces in twelfth-century French romance.
The twin themes of punishment and penance considered through both
historical and literary medieval German texts. The supposed
brutality of medieval punishment looms large in the popular
contemporary imagination, yet this perception can obscure the
diverse and nuanced reactions of medieval society to violent or
criminal acts. This collectionaddresses the ways in which different
approaches to punishment are depicted and discussed in written
texts, focusing in particular on the often complex intersection -
semantic, theoretical and theological - between punishment
andpenitential practices, both self-imposed and imposed by others.
Often in dialogue with theoretical approaches (for example, those
of Rene Girard or Michel Foucault), individual essays explore a
range of themes: the intersection ofthe literary representation of
acts of punishment and penance with historical experience; the ways
in which acts of punishment and penance engage the wishes and
desires of those inflecting or witnessing them; legal and
theological implications; the symbolic and communicative capital of
the body. They focus on a range of texts (romance, lyric, mystical
writing, saints' lives) written in German, from the twelfth to the
sixteenth century. Sarah Bowden is Lecturer in German at King's
College London; Annette Volfing is Professor of Medieval German
Studies at the University of Oxford and Fellow of Oriel College.
Contributors: Sarah Bowden, Bjoern Buschbeck, Sebastian Coxon,
Racha Kirakosian, Andreas Krass, Henrike Manuwald, Katharina
Mertens-Fleury, Jamie Page, Aimut Suerbaum, Annette Volfing.
Konig Rother, Salman und Morolf, the Munchner Oswald and Grauer
Rock (otherwise known as Orendel) have had a troubled position in
the literary history of medieval Germany. Forced into a normative
generic framework as either 'Minstrel Epic' (Spielmannsepik) or
'Bridal-quest Epic' (Brautwerbungsepik), these texts have been
viewed conventionally according to an essentially teleological
classification or a schematic ideal. Bowden challenges the premises
of such a view with a detailed history of the textual scholarship,
and revaluates these so called 'Bridal quests' on their own terms,
offering detailed and suggestive readings of each work without the
distortions or limitations inherent in the traditional
interpretative model. Sarah Bowden is Powys Roberts Research Fellow
at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
Konig Rother, Salman und Morolf, the Munchner Oswald and Grauer
Rock (otherwise known as Orendel) have had a troubled position in
the literary history of medieval Germany. Forced into a normative
generic framework as either 'Minstrel Epic' (Spielmannsepik) or
'Bridal-quest Epic' (Brautwerbungsepik), these texts have been
viewed conventionally according to an essentially teleological
classification or a schematic ideal. Bowden challenges the premises
of such a view with a detailed history of the textual scholarship,
and revaluates these so called 'Bridal quests' on their own terms,
offering detailed and suggestive readings of each work without the
distortions or limitations inherent in the traditional
interpretative model. Sarah Bowden is Powys Roberts Research Fellow
at St Hugh's College, Oxford.
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