The influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter and time-span of articles here. Topics include 'Perceforest' in historical context; a new source for Malory's 'Morte Darthur'; magic and the...
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The influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter and time-span of articles here. Topics include 'Perceforest' in historical context; a new source for Malory's 'Morte Darthur'; magic and the supernatural in early Welsh Arthurian narrative; and ecology in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. Contributors: Richard W. Barber; Nigel Bryant; Aisling Byrne; Carol J. Chase; Siân Echard; Helen Fulton; Michael Twomey; Patricia Victorin
Frontcover; Contents; General Editors' Foreword; List of Contributors; I Magic and the Supernatural in Early Welsh Arthurian Narrative: Culhwch ac Olwen and Breuddwyd Rhonabwy; II How Green was the Green Knight? Forest Ecology at Hautdesert; III Edward III's Arthurian Enthusiasms Revisited: Perceforest in the Context of Philippa of Hainault and the Round Table Feast of 1344; IV Pagan Gods and the Coming of Christianity in Perceforest; V Malory's Sources for the Tale of the Sankgreal: Some Overlooked Evidence from the Irish Lorgaireacht an tSoidigh Naomhtha
VI 'Transmuer de rime en prose': The Transformation of Chrétien de Troyes's Joie de la Cour episode in the Burgundian Prose Erec (1450-60)VII La Rétro-écriture ou l'écriture de la nostalgie dans le roman arthurien tardif: Ysaïe le Triste, Le Conte du Papegau et Mélyador de Froissart; VIII Remembering Brutus: Aaron Thompson's British History of 1718; Backcover
