Troubling Arthurian Histories

Author : James R. Simpson
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 538 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 3039113852

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Drawing on a range of approaches in cultural, gender and literary studies, this book presents Chrétien de Troyes's Erec et Enide as a daring and playful exploration of scandal, terror and anxiety in court cultures. Through an interdisciplinary reading, it locates Erec et Enide, the first surviving Arthurian romance in French, in various contexts, from broad cultural and historical questionings such as medieval vernacular 'modernity's' engagement with the weight of its classical inheritance, to the culturally fecund and politically turbulent histories of the families of Eleanor of Aquitaine and Henry II Plantagenet. Where previous accounts of the tale have not uncommonly presented Chrétien's poem as a decorous 'resolution' of tensions between dynastic marriage and fin'amors, between personal desire and social duty, this reading sees these forces as in permanent and irresolvable tension, the poem's key scenes haunted - whether mischievously or traumatically - by questions and skeletons from various closets.

Author : Tony Sullivan
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526763686

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King Arthur by Tony Sullivan Pdf

An investigation of the evidence for King Arthur based on the earliest written sources rather than later myths and legends. This book differs from the usual Arthur theories in that it favors no particular conjecture simply analyses and clarifies the evidence presenting it all in chronological order. Starting from Roman Britain, the evidence shows how the legend evolved and at what point concepts such as Camelot, Excalibur and Merlin were added. It covers the historical records from the end of Roman Britain using contemporary sources such as they are, from 400-800, including Gallic Chronicles, Gildas and Bede. It details the first written reference to Arthur in the Historia Brittonum c.800 and the later Annales Cambriae in the tenth century showing the evolution of the legend in later Welsh and French stories. While not starting from or aiming at a specific person, the book compares the possibility of Arthur being purely fictional with a historical figure alongside a list of possible suspects. The evidence is presented and the reader is invited to make up their own mind before a discussion of the author’s own assessment. “What impressed me about this book is Sullivan’s passion for this subject and his willingness to go the extra mile to show both sides of the argument . . . It was extremely fascinating to see how he treated this book like a criminal investigation, using different fields of study to figure out the origins of the legend, how it evolved, and whether or not there was a king named Arthur.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd

Author : Leah Tether,Johnny McFadyen
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 563 pages
File Size : 44,6 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 : Richard White
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : OCLC:1150114605

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King Arthur in Legend and History by Richard White Pdf

Author : William Burgwinkle,Nicholas Hammond,Emma Wilson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 823 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2011-02-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521897860

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The Cambridge History of French Literature by William Burgwinkle,Nicholas Hammond,Emma Wilson Pdf

The most comprehensive history of literature written in French ever produced in English.

Author : International Arthurian Society
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 572 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : UVA:X030614118

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Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne by International Arthurian Society Pdf

Author : Zrinka Stahuljak
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 9781843842545

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Thinking Through Chrétien de Troyes by Zrinka Stahuljak Pdf

This co-written book challenges assumptions about Chrétien as the author of a canon of works. In a series of exchanges, its five authors reassess the relationship between lyric and romance, between individuality and social conditions, and between psychology and medieval philosophy.

Author : Sylvia Huot
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780268081836

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Outsiders by Sylvia Huot Pdf

Giants are a ubiquitous feature of medieval romance. As remnants of a British prehistory prior to the civilization established, according to the Historium regum Britannie, by Brutus and his Trojan followers, giants are permanently at odds with the chivalric culture of the romance world. Whether they are portrayed as brute savages or as tyrannical pagan lords, giants serve as a limit against which the chivalric hero can measure himself. In Outsiders: The Humanity and Inhumanity of Giants in Medieval French Prose Romance, Sylvia Huot argues that the presence of giants allows for fantasies of ethnic and cultural conflict and conquest, and for the presentation—and suppression—of alternative narrative and historical trajectories that might have made Arthurian Britain a very different place. Focusing on medieval French prose romance and drawing on aspects of postcolonial theory, Huot examines the role of giants in constructions of race, class, gender, and human subjectivity. She selects for study the well-known prose Lancelot and the prose Tristan, as well as the lesser known Perceforest, Le Conte du papegau, Guiron le Courtois, and Des Grantz Geants. By asking to what extent views of giants in Arthurian romance respond to questions that concern twenty-first-century readers, Huot demonstrates the usefulness of current theoretical concepts and the issues they raise for rethinking medieval literature from a modern perspective.

Author : Roberta Florence Brinkley
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317656890

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Arthurian Legend in the Seventeenth Century by Roberta Florence Brinkley Pdf

The study of the Arthurian legend in the 1600s has revealed almost no romance; the stories are more about the truth of Arthur’s existence and his exploits, with influence due to political bearing of the royalty versus parliament at the time. This fascinating study elucidates the differences between the stories of the seventeenth century and those more well-known now and looks at the development of the literature in line with the political climate and its links with Arthurian prophecy and lineage. Originally published 1932 and again in 1967.

Author : N. J. Higham
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2005-07-05
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134614288

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King Arthur by N. J. Higham Pdf

This seminal new study explores how and why historians and writers from the Middle Ages to the present day have constructed different accounts of this well-loved figure. N. J Higham offers an in-depth examintaion of the first two Arthurian texts: the History of the Britons and the Welsh Annals. He argues that historians have often been more influenced by what the idea of Arthur means in their present context than by such primary sources King Arthur: Myth-making and History illuminates and discusses some central points of debate: * What role was Arthur intended to perform in the political and cultural worlds that constructed him? * How did the idea of King Arthur evolve? * What did the myth of Arthur mean to both authors and their audiences? King Arthur: Myth-making and History is fascinating reading for anyone interested in the origins and evolution of the Arthurian legend.

Author : Ralph Ellis
Publisher : Edfu Books Ltd
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-09-21
Category : History
ISBN : 9781514702635

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The Grail Cypher by Ralph Ellis Pdf

The secrets of Arthurian history revealed

Author : Andrew P. Roach,James R. Simpson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2016-04-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781317122500

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Heresy and the Making of European Culture by Andrew P. Roach,James R. Simpson Pdf

Scholars and analysts seeking to illuminate the extraordinary creativity and innovation evident in European medieval cultures and their afterlives have thus far neglected the important role of religious heresy. The papers collected here - reflecting the disciplines of history, literature, theology, philosophy, economics and law - examine the intellectual and social investments characteristic of both deliberate religious dissent such as the Cathars of Languedoc, the Balkan Bogomils, the Hussites of Bohemia and those who knowingly or unknowingly bent or broke the rules, creating their own 'unofficial orthodoxies'. Attempts to understand, police and eradicate all these, through methods such as the Inquisition, required no less ingenuity. The ambivalent dynamic evident in the tensions between coercion and dissent is still recognisable and productive in the world today.

Author : Elizabeth S. Leet
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 126 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783031198526

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Contact Zones by Elizabeth S. Leet Pdf

This book is based on the postmedieval journal special issue Contact zones: Fur, minerals, milk, and other things. It offers strategies for writing the companions of our humanity. Just as the book entails contact zones between scholars working across languages, periods, regions, and disciplines, we each envision contact zones between materials, bodies, and identities as multidirectional agentic exchanges that define and enact material-semiotic entanglements. Together, the chapters offer disanthropocentric readings of materiality that center the more-than-human agencies that impact human identities and embodiments across the medieval world. Previously published in postmedieval Volume 11, issue 1, March 2020.

Author : Howard Pyle
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547752981

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King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle Pdf

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights consists of a large series of episodes in the legend of the mythological first king of Britain King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. First part of the book tells how young Arthur pulled a sword out of an anvil, how he learned of his royal lineage, and how he thus became king. Second part tells the stories of Merlin, Sir Pellias, Sir Gawaine and other noble knights.

Author : Natania Barron
Publisher : Rebellion Publishing Ltd
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2024-05-21
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781837860609

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Queen of None by Natania Barron Pdf

“Through all the ages, and in the hearts of men, you will be forgotten.” Married at twelve, and a mother soon after, King Arthur’s sister Anna did not live a young life full of promise. She bore three strong sons and delivered the kingdom of Orkney to her brother by way of her marriage. She did as she was asked, invisible and useful—for her name, her dowry, and her womb. Now, twenty years after she left her home, Anna is summoned back to Carelon with the crown of her now-dead husband, to face the demons of her childhood: her sisters Morgen, Elaine and Morgause; Merlin and his scheming priests; and Bedevere, the man she once loved. Carelon is changing, and Anna must change with it. New threats lurk in the shadows, and a strange power begins to awaken in her. If she is to be more than a pawn in others’ plans, she must bargain her own strength, and family, in pursuit of her ambition—and revenge.