This Companionoffers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to...
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This Companionoffers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature and explores why it is still integral to contemporary culture.Offers a comprehensive survey from the earliest to the most recent worksFeatures an impressive range of well-known international contributorsExamines contemporary additions to the Arthurian canon, including film and computer gamesUnderscores an understanding of Arthurian literature as fundamental to western literary tradition Helen Fultonis Professor of Medieval Literature in the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York. She has published extensively on medieval Welsh and English literatures and has related interests in language and critical theory, particularly narrative and discourse. Other books which she has edited include Medieval Celtic Literature and Society(2005) and Urban Culture in Medieval Wales(2011).
""Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture""; ""Title page""; ""Copyright page""; ""List of Illustrations""; ""Notes on Contributors""; ""Introduction: Theories and Debates""; ""The Question of Historicity""; ""Chronicle, Romance, Fantasy""; ""The Politics of Arthur in the Modern World""; ""Remediations of Arthur""; ""A Note on Spelling and Translations""; ""Part I: The Arthur of History""; ""1 The End of Roman Britain and the Coming of the Saxons: An Archaeological Context for Arthur?""; ""Gildas and the History of Britain in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries""
""The Archaeology of Britain in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries""""Germanic Settlement""; ""Towns""; ""The Celtic West""; ""Tintagel""; ""Cadbury Castle""; ""Dinas Powys""; ""Western and Northern England""; ""Conclusion""; ""2 Early Latin Sources: Fragments of a Pseudo-Historical Arthur""; ""The Historia Brittonum""; ""The Annales Cambriae""; ""Genealogy""; ""Hagiographies""; ""Conclusion""; ""3 History and Myth: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae""; ""The Historia as History""; ""Manuscripts and Sources""; ""The Arthurian Section of the Historia""; ""The Myth of Arthur""
""4 The Chronicle Tradition""""Part II: Celtic Origins of the Arthurian Legend""; ""5 The Historical Context: Wales and England 800â€"1200""; ""Britain at the Opening of the Ninth Century""; ""England and Wales in the Ninth to Eleventh Centuries""; ""The Coming of the Normans""; ""“Nativeâ€� and Norman Cultures""; ""The Poets and the Princes""; ""6 Arthur and Merlin in Early Welsh Literature: Fantasy and Magic Naturalism""; ""Arthur as Warrior-Hero""; ""Arthur in Welsh Popular Tradition""; ""Fantasy and Magic Naturalism""; ""The Three Merlins""
""7 The Arthurian Legend in Scotland and Cornwall""""Scottish Chronicles and Arthurian Tradition""; ""Folk Tradition and the Figure of Arthur""; ""The Arthur of Romance""; ""Cornwall""; ""Place Names, Personal Names, and the Oldest Strata of Arthurian Legends""; ""Conclusion""; ""8 Arthur and the Irish""; ""9 Migrating Narratives: Peredur, Owain, and Geraint""; ""The Manuscript History""; ""Welsh and French Traditions""; ""Date and Provenance""; ""Part III: Continental Arthurian Traditions""
