The Lancelot Grail Cycle

Author : Carol Dover
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859917835

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A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle by Carol Dover Pdf

The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work in its social, historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts that make up the Cycle, the contributors convey to modern readers the appeal that the text must have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling. This volume will become standard reading for scholars, students, and more general readers interested in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, medieval romance, Malory studies, and the Arthurian legends. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA, MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES, HELEN COOPER, CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE, HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER is associate professor of French and director of undergraduate studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Author : William W. Kibler
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2010-07-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780292786400

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The Lancelot-Grail Cycle by William W. Kibler Pdf

Composed in Old French between about 1220 and 1240, the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is a group of five prose romances centered on the love affair between Lancelot and Guenevere. It consists of an immense central core, the Lancelot Proper, introduced by The History of the Holy Grail and The Story of Merlin and concluded by The Quest for the Holy Grail and The Death of Arthur. This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Exploring the cycle's evolution across the literatures of medieval France, Italy, Spain, Catalonia, and England, the authors take a variety of approaches that highlight a broad range of cultural, social, historical, and political concerns and offer a comparative and interdisciplinary vision of this great romance.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9781843842248

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The History of the Holy Grail by Anonim Pdf

Author : Patricia Terry,Samuel N. Rosenberg
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1567923240

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Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles Or, The Book of Galehaut Retold by Patricia Terry,Samuel N. Rosenberg Pdf

"The story of the passionate, adulterous, tragic love of Lancelot and Guenevere is at once the perfect expression of "courtly love" and its inversion. Lancelot, the superhuman stranger in King Arthur's court, sacrifices everything in service of his king, and yet also falls secretly in love with Arthur's queen, the most beautiful woman in all of Britain. That this spotless knight, who repeatedly saves Arthur and his world from destruction, should also be the fateful underminer of the king's self-confidence and, ultimately, a terrible weapon in the hands of Arthur's great adversary Galehaut, is a contradiction that has fascinated the Western mind for hundreds of years." "The Arthurian legend that most of us know comes from Malory and The Once and Future King. But there are also several books of Old French romance, the most detailed of which, the thirteenth-century "Book of Galehaut," gives a surprising and unfamiliar version. It is a double love story - the tale not only of Lancelot's love for Guenevere, but also the love of Galehaut, the Lord of the Distant Isles, for Lancelot. It is the achievement of Patricia Terry and Samuel N. Rosenberg, both seasoned translators of medieval romance, to tease out from the French sources the essential story of Lancelot, Guenevere, Galehaut, and Arthur, and, without distorting the original, retell it for today's reader. Their rich, subtle, and deeply moving narrative is complemented by evocative wood engravings by Judith Jaidinger, the most distinctive visual interpreter of Arthurian legend since Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 0192837931

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Lancelot of the Lake by Anonim Pdf

The early 13th century French romance tells of Lancelot's childhood, his arrival at King Arthur's court, and the flowering of his legendary love affair with Queen Guinevere.

Author : Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1139827871

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The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature by Simon Gaunt,Sarah Kay Pdf

Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.

Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 512 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842347

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Lancelot-Grail: The story of Merlin by Norris J. Lacy Pdf

Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1969-02-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0140442200

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The Quest of the Holy Grail by Anonim Pdf

Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the simple Perceval, the thoughtful Bors, the rash Gawain, the weak Lancelot and the saintly Galahad - as they journey through danger and temptation to reach the elusive Holy Grail. But only one of them is judged worthy to see the mysteries within the sacred vessel, and look upon the ineffable. Enfused with tragic grandeur and an aura of mysticism, The Quest is an absorbing and radiant allegory of man's perilous search for divine grace, and had a profound influence on later Arthurian romances and versions of the Grail legend. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 370 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2018-08-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781554813766

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Quest of the Holy Grail by Anonymous Pdf

The Old French Lancelot-Graal is an important but massive work, providing a place for King Arthur not only in the history of Britain but also in Christian history. This new translation of one section, the Quest of the Holy Grail, will be a flexible addition to courses on medieval literature or romance. The notes and guides are designed to help readers enjoy the text while appreciating its relationship to social and literary history. Appendices include translations of material from two of Chrétien de Troyes’s romances (Perceval and Yvain); translations from other parts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (the early history of the Grail and the conception of Galahad); and excerpts from apocryphal works (from French versions written at about the same time as the Quest).

Author : Joshua Byron Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2017-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812294163

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Walter Map and the Matter of Britain by Joshua Byron Smith Pdf

Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands known for his stinging satire, religious skepticism, ghost stories, and irrepressible wit? And why, though the attribution is spurious, is it not, in some ways, implausible? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer these and other questions in the first English-language monograph on Walter Map—and in so doing, he offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain, including King Arthur and his knights, first circulated in England. Smith contends that it was inventive clerics like Walter, and not traveling minstrels or professional translators, who popularized these stories. Smith examines Walter's only surviving work, the De nugis curialium, to demonstrate that it is not the disheveled text that scholars have imagined but rather five separate works in various stages of completion. This in turn provides new evidence to support his larger contention, that ecclesiastical networks of textual exchange played a major role in exporting Welsh literary material into England. Medieval readers incorrectly envisioned Walter withdrawing ancient Latin documents about the Holy Grail from a monastery and compiling them in order to compose the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. In this detail they were wrong, Smith acknowledges, but a model of literary transmission that is not vernacular and popular but Latinate and ecclesiastical demands our serious consideration.

Author : Bart Besamusca
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 51,9 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 : Professor of Medieval Literature and Publishing Leah Tether,Laura Chuhan Campbell,Leah Tether,Benjamin Pohl,Senior Lecturer in Medieval History Benjamin Pohl
Publisher : ARC Humanities Press
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2021-07-31
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1641894148

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The Bristol Merlin by Professor of Medieval Literature and Publishing Leah Tether,Laura Chuhan Campbell,Leah Tether,Benjamin Pohl,Senior Lecturer in Medieval History Benjamin Pohl Pdf

The discovery of seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin in a set of early printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019. This book contains a comprehensive study of these fascinating Arthurian fragments. Beginning with an extensive contextual history, the authors reveal details of the fragments' origin, their importation to England, and their subsequent journey to a waste pile in a bookbinder's workshop, where they would be incorporated into the bindings of a four-volume edition of the works of Jean Gerson in the early sixteenth century. A full enquiry into the provenance of these host volumes sets out the possible routes from the bookbinder's workshop to their final home in Bristol Central Library. Using multi-spectral imaging to read the damaged sections of text, the authors also provide a full edition and translation of the narrative contained in the fragments.

Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842330

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Lancelot-Grail: The post-Vulgate Quest for the Holy Grail & the post-Vulgate Death of Arthur by Norris J. Lacy Pdf

Bost-Vulgate Cycle, and is one of the main sources used by Sir Thomas Malory. --

Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 478 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843842262

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Lancelot-Grail: Lancelot, pt. I by Norris J. Lacy Pdf

Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.

Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Arthur, King (Romances, etc.)
ISBN : 0415877245

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Lancelot-Grail: Volume 3 (Routledge Revivals) by Norris J. Lacy Pdf

First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.