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First ever English translation, with facing edition, of an
important medieval German Arthurian romance. Composed in the 1480s
by the Munich painter and writer Ulrich Fuetrer, Iban is the story
of a young knight at King Arthur's court, who pursues adventure
abroad, wins a land and its lady as his wife, loses both through
his immaturity and negligence, and eventually regains his country
and his spouse in a series of adventures that teach him to place
the welfare of others above his own desires. A retelling of
Hartmann von Aue's Middle High German classic Iwein from circa
1200, itself an adaptation of the Old French writer Chretien de
Troyes' earlier Yvain, the Knight with the Lion, Fuetrer's Iban is
one of fifteen narratives making up his massive Arthurian
anthology, The Book of Adventures, which the author compiled for
Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich. Among the last premodern
retellings of the story of the knight Ywain, Ibanoffers modern
readers an invaluable window onto how the most beloved Arthurian
tales were reinterpreted at the end of the Middle Ages and at the
threshold to the early modern period. This book offers an edition
of the romance, the first for nearly a quarter of a century,
accompanied by a facing translation, the first into a modern
language of any part of the Book of Adventures. It also includes an
introduction, putting the romance into its wider contexts, and
explanatory notes.
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