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Author | : Siân Echard |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 395 |
Release | : 2011-03-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783164530 |
Download The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
King Arthur is arguably the most recognizable literary hero of the European Middle Ages. His stories survive in many genres and many languages, but while scholars and enthusiasts alike know something of his roots in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain, most are unaware that there was a Latin Arthurian tradition which extended beyond Geoffrey. This collection of essays will highlight different aspects of that tradition, allowing readers to see the well-known and the obscure as part of a larger, often coherent whole. These Latin-literate scholars were as interested as their vernacular counterparts in the origins and stories of Britain's greatest heroes, and they made their own significant contributions to his myth.
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Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2020-10-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786837374 |
Download The Arthur of the Germans Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
From the twelfth century onwards the legends of King Arthur and his knights, including the Tristan legend, spread across Europe, producing a vast range of adaptations and new stories. German and Dutch literature were of central importance in this expansion of Arthurian material from the 12th to 16th century. This title deals with this topic.
Author | : William Raymond Johnston Barron |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Download The Arthur of the English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
*Subtitled 'The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature'. The first comprehensive study of the Arthurian legend in English life and literature. Barron investigates the process by which the legend was transmitted and assimilated into English cultural heritage and history.
Author | : William W. Kibler |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2014-08-14 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0786447796 |
Download Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This volume offers newly translated texts that exemplify the two most important traditions of Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages. Encompassing such key works such as Lawman's Brut and Wace's Romance of Brut, written in Middle English and Old French, respectively, the Arthurian Epic Tradition depends on Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, written in Latin. Many modern readers are more familiar with Arthur and his fabled court as the centerpiece of a massive fictional tradition, well represented in the second part of this volume, including Chretien de Troyes's Story of the Grail, The Quest of the Holy Grail, and the Perlesvaus. These selections emphasize the connection between secular and religious understandings of chivalry that is the most distinctive quality of medieval Arthurian romance. Useful as a classroom text, the volume provides material for a semester's worth of study. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
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Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 536 |
Release | : 2014-04-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1783161582 |
Download The Arthur of the Italians Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.
Author | : W R J Barron |
Publisher | : University of Wales Press |
Total Pages | : 442 |
Release | : 2020-11-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1786837404 |
Download The Arthur of the English Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language up until the end of the Middle Ages is now available for the first time in paperback. English people think of Arthur as their own – stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of princes even today. Yet some would say the English were the historical Arthur’s bitterest enemies and usurpers of his heritage. The process by which Arthurian legends have become an important part of England’s cultural heritage is traced in this book. Previous studies have concentrated on the handful of chivalric romances, which have given the impression that Arthur is a hero of romantic escapism. This study seeks to provide a more comprehensive and insightful look at the English Arthurian legends and how they evolved. It focuses primarily upon the literary aspects of Arthurian legend, but it also makes some important political and social observations.
Author | : Rachel Bromwich |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 334 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Download The Arthur of the Welsh Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Publisher description: This volume is unique in offering a comprehensive discussion of the Arthurian legend in Medieval Welsh literature. Little, if anything, is known historically of Arthur, yet for centuries the romances of Arthur and his court dominated the imaginative literature of Europe in many languages. The roots of this vast flowering of the Arthurian legend are to be found in early Welsh tradition and this volume gives an account of the Arthurian literature produced in Wales, in both Welsh and Latin, during the Middle Ages. The distinguished contributors offer a comprehensive view of recent scholarship relating to Arthurian literature in early Welsh and other Brythonic sources.
Author | : Rosemary Morris |
Publisher | : Boydell & Brewer Ltd |
Total Pages | : 186 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0859910881 |
Download The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This study is based on literry works in various languages, from earliest times until approximately 1500. The 'biographer' of Arthur, tries to interlink the various sources.
Author | : Norris J. Lacy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 482 |
Release | : 2014-10-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317656954 |
Download Medieval Arthurian Literature Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The focus of this book is medieval vernacular literature in Western Europe. Chapters are written by experts in the area and present the current scholarship at the time this book was originally published in 1996. Each chapter has a bibliography of important works in that area as well. This is a thorough and reliable guide to trends in research on medieval Arthuriana.
Author | : Leah Tether |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 563 |
Release | : 2017-06-26 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 3110432463 |
Download Handbook of Arthurian Romance Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition. Arthurian narrative material, which had originally been transmitted in oral culture, began to be inscribed regularly in the twelfth century, developing from (pseudo-)historical beginnings in the Latin chronicles of "historians" such as Geoffrey of Monmouth into masterful literary works like the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions of almost every European vernacular during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. This Handbook seeks to showcase the European character of Arthurian romance both past and present. By working across national philological boundaries, which in the past have tended to segregate the study of Arthurian romance according to language, as well as by exploring primary texts from different vernaculars and the Latin tradition in conjunction with recent theoretical concepts and approaches, this Handbook brings together a pioneering and more complete view of the specifically European context of Arthurian romance, and promotes the more connected study of Arthurian literature across the entirety of its European context.