Originality And Tradition In The Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein

Author : Bart Besamusca,Keith Busby,Erik Kooper
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859915468

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Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein by Bart Besamusca,Keith Busby,Erik Kooper Pdf

New editor, new directions: the series broadens its scope to encompass European literatures other than French and English; still, however, "an indispensable component of any historical or Arthurian library". NOTES AND QUERIES This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch literature which has recently become accessible to an English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain quite different to the man found in the English Sir Gawain and the Green Knightor the French Gauvain. Expert readings of the Walewein, especially commissioned and collected by BART BESAMUSCA and ERIK KOOPERof the University of Utrecht are provided by a group of renowned scholars, contributing to the on-going critical appraisal of the Walewein. KEITH BUSBY is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissane Studies, University of Oklahoma. Contributors: BART BESAMUSCA, ERIK KOOPER, WALTER HAUG, DOUGLAS KELLY, NORRIS J. LACY, MATHIAS MEYER, AD PUTTER, FELICITY RIDDY, THEA SUMMERFIELD, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, BART VELDHOEN, NORBERT VOORWINDEN, LORI WALTERS

Author : Bart Besamusca,Erik Kooper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : OCLC:610373824

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Arthurian Literature XVII by Bart Besamusca,Erik Kooper Pdf

Author : Leah Tether,Johnny McFadyen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110432466

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Handbook of Arthurian Romance by Leah Tether,Johnny McFadyen Pdf

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.

Author : Larissa Tracy,Geert H. M. Claassens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 408 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2022-07-12
Category : Dutch literature
ISBN : 9781843846345

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Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context by Larissa Tracy,Geert H. M. Claassens Pdf

This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old English and later medieval romances in both English and Middle Dutch.

Author : Bart Besamusca,Frank Brandsma,Keith Busby
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9781843841166

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Arthurian Literature by Bart Besamusca,Frank Brandsma,Keith Busby Pdf

Essays demonstrating that Arthur belonged to the whole of Europe - not just England.

Author : Douglas Kelly
Publisher : Tamesis Books
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1855660830

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Chrétien de Troyes by Douglas Kelly Pdf

The supplement to the 1976 original bibliography reflects the expanding scope of modern Chrétien studies, including items from around the world, with the assistance of an international team of scholars. The Supplement builds on and completes the Chrétien de Troyes Bibliography first published in 1976. Together the two volumes constitute the fullest and most complete bibliographical source now available on this major medieval author. Chrétien de Troyes bequeathed a corpus of highly original and widely influential Arthurian romances. Indeed, his direct or indirect influence continued throughout the middle ages and beyond into modern times. The Bibliographypermits students of medieval romance to quickly identify the areas in which Chrétien scholarship has been active. Items are listed under twenty-two topics, with numerous sub-sections under each topic, and cross-references for items that treat more than one of the topics. The broad geographic and linguistic scope of modern Chrétien studies is evident in items not only from western Europe and North America, but also from the growing body of medieval scholarship in eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and Australasia. To ensure accuracy and completeness, the editor has been assisted by scholars competent in the many languages in which Chrétien studies are now published, most notably in Japanese, Welsh, Rumanian, Hungarian and Polish, as well as by other scholars and librarians who generously provided assistance and information in finding items difficult to access.

Author : David Frame Johnson,Geert H. M. Claassens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0859915840

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Dutch Romances by David Frame Johnson,Geert H. M. Claassens Pdf

The gem in the crown of Middle Dutch Arthurian romance, the Roman van Walewein embodies the transformation of popular folktale into courtly romance; in its rich variety of Arthurian motifs, it stands as an equal to the masterpiece of English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The framework of the romance is a tripartite series of quests, in which the hero, Walewein, must acquire and relinquish successive marvellous objects. Events are set in motion after Arthur and his knights have completed their meal, when a flying chess set enters the hall; Walewein embarks on a series of quests to capture it and bring it back to Arthur, but to do so he must first acquire the Sword of the Two Rings for King Wonder, and subsequently the fair Princess Ysabele for King Amoraen/Amorijs. A particularly notable feature of this romance is the way in which Walewein emerges from it as the epitome of knightly virtue, at a time when in the French tradition Gauvain's reputation had sunk to its lowest. This edition of the text, accompanied by facing English translation, will bring this important work to a wider audience; it is accompanied by an introduction, variants and rejected readings, and critical notes. David F. Johnson is Professor of English, Florida State University; Geert H.M. Claassens is Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium.

Author : Miriam Edlich-Muth
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843672

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Malory and His European Contemporaries by Miriam Edlich-Muth Pdf

A reconsideration of Arthurian compilations in the late middle ages, looking at the complex ways in which they reshape their material for new audiences.

Author : Larissa Tracy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 338 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843843931

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Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature by Larissa Tracy Pdf

A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

Author : Thea Summerfield,Keith Busby
Publisher : Rodopi
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9789042021457

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People and Texts by Thea Summerfield,Keith Busby Pdf

Relationships between people and texts form the focus of the studies collected in this book. It was presented to Erik Kooper in recognition of his lifelong efforts to bring together people from universities worldwide. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of Arthurian and Middle English literature, codicologists, scholars interested in medieval Latin sermons and the Gesta Herewardi, in medieval drama and in texts in Middle English, among them Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wynnere and Wastoure, Sir Eglamour, the Tale of Gamelyn, a nd, in Scots, the metrical chronicle of William Stewart. Articles on early twentieth-century Chaucerian scholarship and on many of the Old French Arthurian romances as well as the writings of Wace and Benoit de Sainte-Maure are also included. Contributors are Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma, Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Keith Busby, D.J. Curnow and Ad Putter, Juliette Dor, Frans N.M. Diekstra, Karen Hodder and John Scattergood, Geert van Iersel, Douglas Kelly, Edward Donald Kennedy, Jane Roberts, Elsa Strietman and Thea Summerfield.

Author : Bart Besamusca,Frank Brandsma
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786836830

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The Arthur of the Low Countries by Bart Besamusca,Frank Brandsma Pdf

In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien’s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence, and the movement of texts and manuscripts (west to east) reflects its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands. Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval Arthurian material..

Author : Carolyn Muessig,Ad Putter
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134175741

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Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages by Carolyn Muessig,Ad Putter Pdf

Envisaging Heaven in the Middle Ages deals with medieval notions of heaven in theological and mystical writings, in visions of the Otherworld, and in medieval art, poetry and music. It considers the influence of such notions in the secular literature of some of the greatest writers of the period including Chrétien de Troyes and Chaucer. The coherence and beauty of these notions make heaven one of the most impressive medieval ‘cathedrals of the mind’. With contributions from experts such as A.C. Spearing, Peter Meredith, Peter Dronke and Robin Kirkpatrick, this collection is essential reading for all those interested in medieval religion and culture.

Author : Keith Busby,Raymond H. Thompson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2005-11-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781136783524

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Gawain by Keith Busby,Raymond H. Thompson Pdf

First published in 2006. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author : Bart Besamusca
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 085991769X

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The Book of Lancelot by Bart Besamusca Pdf

"The book consists of five chapters. The introductory chapter deals with the study of cyclicity, the literary context of the Lancelot Compilation, and the manuscript tradition. In the following three chapters the ten romances are studied one by one. Each analysis consists of two parts: a description of the compiler's source and a survey of his interventions. In the fifth and last chapter the Lancelot Compilation is characterized as a narrative cycle and compared with French, English and German cycles. The monograph concludes with an attempt to describe the essence of the compilation."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Walter Wadiak
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268101213

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Savage Economy by Walter Wadiak Pdf

In Savage Economy: The Returns of Middle English Romance, Walter Wadiak traces the evolution of the medieval English romance from its thirteenth-century origins to 1500, and from a genre that affirmed aristocratic identity to one that appealed more broadly to an array of late medieval communities. Essential to this literary evolution is the concept and practice of “noble” gift-giving, which binds together knights and commoners in ways that both echo and displace the notorious violence of many of these stories. Wadiak begins with the assumption that “romance” names a particular kind of chivalric fantasy to which violence is central, just as violence was instrumental to the formation and identity of the medieval warrior aristocracy. A traditional view is that the violence of romance stories is an expression of aristocratic privilege wielded by a military caste in its relations with one another as well as with those lower on the social scale. In this sense, violence is the aristocratic gift that underwrites and reaffirms the feudal power of a privileged group, with the noble gift performing the symbolic violence on which romance depends in order to present itself as both a coded threat and an expression of chivalric values. Well-known examples of romance in Middle English, such as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer’s Knight’s Tale, are considered alongside more “popular” examples of the genre to demonstrate a surprising continuity of function across a range of social contexts. Wadiak charts a trajectory from violence aimed directly at securing feudal domination to the subtler and more diffuse modes of coercion that later English romances explore. Ultimately, this is a book about the ways in which romance lives on as an idea, even as the genre itself begins to lose ground at the close of the Middle Ages.