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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.

W.R.J. Barron, Introduction; Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, The Celtic Tradition, * W.R.J. Barron, Francoise le Saux, Lesley Johnson, Dynastic Chronicles; * James P. Carley, Interchapter A: Arthur in English History; * Catherine Batt, Rosalind Field, The Romance Tradition; * Karen Hodder, David Burnley, Lesley Johnson, Carole Weinberg, Dynastic Romance; * Maldwyn Mills, Elizabeth Williams, Flora Alexander, Rosamund Allen, W.R.J. Barron, Chivalric Romance; * Juliet Vale, Interchapter B: Arthur in English Society; * Gillian Rogers, Diane Speed, David Griffith, John Withrington, Folk Romance; * P.J.C. Field, Sir Thomas Malory’s ‘Le Morte Darthur’; Chris Brooks, Inga Bryden, The Arthurian Legacy; * John Thompson, Postscript: Arthurian Literature and its Public.

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Publié par	University of Wales Press
Date de parution	15 novembre 2020
Nombre de lectures	5
EAN13	9781786837400
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	27 Mo

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TH E ARTHUR
O F TH E ENGLISH ARTHURIAN LITERATURE IN THE MIDDL E AGES
I I
TH E
ARTHU R
O F TH E
ENGLIS H
TH E ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN MEDIEVA L ENGLISH
LIF E AND LITERATUR E
edited by
W. R. J. Barron
Revised edition with an additional Postscript
CARDIF F
UNIVERSIT Y OF WALE S PRESS © The Vinaver Trust, 1999, 2001
First published in hardback 1999
New edition in paperback 2001
Reprinted 2011
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ISB N 978-0-7083-2449-3
Printed in Great Britain by CP I Antony Rowe, Chippenham, Wiltshire. PUBLISHE D IN CO-OPERATIO N WITH
TH E VINAVER TRUST
The Vinaver Trust was established by the British Branch of
the International Arthurian Society to commemorate a
greatly respected colleague and a distinguished scholar
Eugene Vinaver
the editor of Malory's Morte Darthur. The Trust aims to
advance study of Arthurian literature in all languages by
planning and encouraging research projects in the field,
and by aiding publication of the resultant studies. ARTHURIAN LITERATUR E IN TH E MIDDLE AGES
I The Arthur of the Welsh, Edited by Rachel Bromwich, A . O. H. Jarman
and Brynley F . Roberts (Cardiff, 1991)
I I The Arthur of the English, Edited by W. R. J . Barron (Cardiff, 1999)
II I The Arthur of the Germans, Edited by W. H. Jackson and S. A.
Ranawake (Cardiff, 2000)
I V The Arthur of the French, Edited by Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt
(Cardiff, 2006)
V The Arthur of the North, Edited by Marianne E . Kalinke (Cardiff 2011)
V I The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature, Edited by Sian Echard
(Cardiff, 2011) PREFAC E
When, some years ago, the Vinaver Trust considered revising the standard
history of its academic field, Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages (ed.
R.S . Loomis, Oxford, 1959), the authors of the opening chapters on Celtic
texts were the first to be approached. Their feeling was that the passage of
time and the advance of scholarship made necessary a more fundamental
revision than was possible within the original single-volume format. The
book had served several generations of students well, but the Trustees were
persuaded that the time had come for a more fundamental approach to
Arthurian literary history.
ALMA , as it appeared in the Abbreviations to a hundred volumes, had
reflected its editor's professional interests closely and, even within the
limitations of a single volume, given a rather narrow picture of Arthurian
studies. Changing perspectives, the accumulation of scholarship and the more
flexible technology of publishing now make possible a fuller record. The
basis of the volumes listed on the facing page is cultural rather than purely
linguistic, as more appropriate to a period when modern nationalism, and in
many cases modern nation states, had not yet evolved. Each takes into
account extraneous influences and includes some texts which the influence of
the mother culture carried into the wider world.
Each volume in the series is primarily addressed to students of the
individual culture in question, but also to those of other cultures who, for the
appreciation of their own Arthurian literature, need to be aware of the
manifold forms it took in the wider world and of interactions between various
expressions of the legend. With this dual readership in mind, the text has been
confined to a statement of current received opinion as individual contributors
see it, concisely expressed and structured in a way which, it is hoped, will
help readers to appreciate the development of Arthurian themes within the
particular culture. Tangential issues, academic controversy, and matters of
documentation, more likely to be of scholarly interest, are confined to the
notes.
Within this remit, the editors have had complete control over their
individual volumes. They themselves would admit that they have not
ensnared that rare bird, the Whole Truth of the Arthurian legend, and that in
time a new survey will be needed, perhaps on a different basis. But if, for the
moment, they have allowed others to catch a glimpse of that universal
phoenix, the Arthurian myth, through the thickets of academic speculation,
they will feel that they have done what was presently necessary.
W. R. J. Barron CONTENT S
Introduction xiii
1 The Celtic Tradition 1
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan
2 Dynastic Chronicles 11
W.RJ. Barron, Franqoise Le Saux, Lesley Johnson
Interchapter A: Arthur in English History 47
James P. Carley
3 The Romance Tradition 59
Catherine Batt, Rosalind Field
4 Dynastic Romance 71
Karen Hodder, David Burnley, Lesley Johnson, Carole Weinberg
5 Chivalric Romance 113
Maldwyn Mills, Elizabeth Williams, Flora Alexander,
Rosamund Allen, W.RJ. Barron
Interchapter B: Arthur in English Society 185
Juliet Vale
6 Folk Romance 197
Gillian Rogers, Diane Speed, David Griffith, John Withrington
7 Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur 225
P.J.C. Field
8 The Arthurian Legacy 24
Chris Brooks, Inga Bryden
Abbreviations 267
Notes8
Postscript: Authors and Audiences 371
John J. Thompson
Reference Bibliography 39
Index 413 TH E CONTRIBUTORS
FLOR A ALEXANDER is a Senior Lecturer in English at the University of
Aberdeen. A regular contributor to BBIAS, she has written on various Arthurian
topics as well as on Canadian fiction and the teaching of Women's Studies
ROSAMUND ALLE N teaches Old and Middle English literature at Queen Mary
and Westfield College, University of London. She has published on the medieval
English mystics, on Arthurian texts, including Layamon's Brut, and on Gower.
RA Y BARRON was a student at St Andrews, Yale and Strasbourg, taught at
Aberdeen, Manchester and Shiraz, and is currently a Senior Research Fellow of
the University of Exeter, a Past President of IAS, and a Vinaver Trustee.
CATHERIN E BATT is Lecturer in Medieval Literature, University of Leeds. Her
research includes comparative literature, and she has published on
AngloNorman and Middle English hagiography, the Gawain-pott Malory and Caxton.
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CHRIS BROOKS is Reader in Victorian Culture in the University of Exeter and
Chair of the Victorian Society. He has published extensively on the history of the
Gothic Revival, Victorian architecture and arts, and the literature of the period.
INGA BRYDEN, Senior Lecturer in English at King Alfred's College, Winchester,
will shortly publish a four-volume collection of Pre-Raphaelite writings and is
finishing a book on the reinvention of the Arthurian legends in Victorian culture.
DAVID BURNLEY is Chairman of the School of English at Sheffield University.
He has written books on the language of Chaucer and the history of English and
courtly culture, as well as material on medieval French, and English lexicology.
JAMES CARLEY, a professor of English at York University, Toronto, has written
extensively on Glastonbury Abbey and the Arthurian legend. He is presently
completing books on the libraries of Henry VIII , and the Tudor antiquary Leland.
PETE R FIELD is a professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor. He
has published extensively on authors from Nennius in the ninth century to
Anthony Burgess, but the focus of his interests has always been Malory.
ROSALIND FIELD is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English, Royal
Holloway College, University of London, with research interests and numerous
publications in Middle English and Anglo-Norman romance, and in Chaucer.
DAVID GRIFFITH gained his doctorate from Exeter in 1991 and now teaches Old
and Middle English at the University of Birmingham. His research interests are in
medieval romance and late medieval art. LESLE Y JOHNSON, formerly Senior Lecturer in the School of English,
University of Leeds, now lives and works in Frankfurt, and has published widely
in the field of medieval English historiography and in feminist studies.
FRANgOISE L E SAUX, graduate of the University of Wales and of the University
of Lausanne, Switzerland, has taught in the universities of Lausanne, Geneva and
Freiburg-im-Breisgau, and is now a Lecturer at Reading University.
CERIDWE N LLOYD-MORGAN has published widely in the field of Welsh
Arthurian literature. She is currently Senior Assistant Archivist in the Department
of Manuscripts and Records at the National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth.
MALDWY N MILLS is an Emeritus professor of English in the University of Wales,
Aberystwyth. Educated at University of Wales Cardiff, and Jesus College, Oxford,
his chief research interests are the Middle English romances and Chaucer
GILLIA N ROGERS, a doctoral graduate of the University of Wales, is English
Faculty Librarian in the University of Cambridge. Her main research interests are
in the Middle English Gavvaw-romances and in the Percy Folio manuscript.
DIANE SPEED is a Senior Lecturer in English in the University of Sydney. Her
research interests include medieval romance, Biblical literature andexemplum. She
is currently working on the Anglo-Latin Gesta Romanorum and Gower.
JOHN J. THOMPSON is a Senior Lecturer in English at Queen's University,
Belfast. A University of York graduate, he has published on the writing, dissem
ination and reception of many medieval English vernacular texts and manuscripts.
CAROL E WEINBERG is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English and
American Studies at the University of Manchester, where she teaches