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Record Nr.

UNINA9910163899303321

Titolo

Arthurian literature xxxiii / / edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Suffolk : , : Boydell & Brewer, , 2016

ISBN

1-78204-864-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (x, 218 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

Arthurian Literature ; ; 33

Disciplina

820.9351

Soggetti

Arthurian romances - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- General Editors’ Foreword -- Contributors -- I From ‘The Matter of Britain’ to ‘The Matter of Rome’: Latin Literary Culture and the Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Wales -- II Chrétien’s British Yvain in England and Wales -- III Edward III’s Abandoned Order of the Round Table Revisited: Political Arthurianism after Poitiers -- IV ‘Thanked Be God There Hath Been But A Few Of Myne Auncytours That Hathe Dyed In Their Beddes’: Border Stories and Northern Arthurian Romances -- V T. H. White’s Representation of Malory’s Camelot -- VI: ΙΠΠÓТНΣ Ο ΠΡΕΣΒÝТНΣ: The Old Knight An Edition of the Greek Arthurian Poem of Vat. Gr. 1822 -- CONTENTS OF PREVIOUS VOLUMES

Sommario/riassunto

A wide range of Arthurian material is discussed here, reflecting its diversity, and enduring vitality.  Geoffrey of Monmouth's best-selling <I>Historia regum Britannie</I>  is discussed in the context of Geoffrey's reception in Wales and the relationship between Latin and Welsh literary culture. Two essays  deal with the Middle English <I>Ywain and Gawain</I>: the first offers a comparative study of the Middle English poem alongside Chrétien's <I>Yvain</I> and the Welsh <I>Owein</I>, while the second considers <I>Ywain and Gawain</I>  with the Alliterative <I>Morte Arthure</I> in their northern English cultural and political context, the world of the Percys and the Nevilles. It is followed by a discussion of Edward III's recuperation of his abandoned Order of the Round Table, which offers an intriguing explanation for this reversal in the context of Edward's victory over the



French at Poitiers. The final essay is a comparison of fifteenth- and twentieth-century portrayals of Camelot in Malory and T.H. White, as both idea and locale, and a centre of hearsay and gossip.  The volume is completed with a unique and little-known medieval Greek Arthurian poem, presented in facing-page edition and modern English translation.<BR><BR>  Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society; David F. Johnson is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.<BR><BR>  Contributors: Christopher Berard, Louis J. Boyle, Thomas H. Crofts, Ralph Hanna, Georgia Lynn Henley, Erich Poppe