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Edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David Johnson. 'Arthurian Literature' is an annual volume of articles on the legends of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table. The range of the material covered is wide, from editions and translations of hitherto unknown medieval manuscripts and exploration of heraldic emblems to examination of the photographic illustrations of Tennyson's 'Morte Darthur' and discussion of representations of the legends in music; the geographical coverage extends from Britain to Japan. 'Arthurian Literature' has always specialised in long articles, permitting full and thorough exploration of the topic under review and offering an overview of new directions in Arthurian research. These are supplemented by Notes, short items of under 5,000 words, and Updates on earlier articles. Previous editors are RICHARD BARBER, JAMES P. CARLEY and FELICITY RIDDY, and KEITH BUSBY.

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18 results in Arthurian Literature

Arthurian Literature
  • A Celebration of Elizabeth Archibald
  • Volume 39
  • Edited by Megan G. Leitch, Kevin S. Whetter
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    08 May 2024
    Print publication:
    04 June 2024
  • This volume is a special issue dedicated to Professor Elizabeth Archibald, who has had such an impact on, and made so many significant contributions to, the field of Arthurian Studies. It maintains its tradition of diverse approaches to the Arthurian tradition - albeit on this occasion with a particular focus on Malory, appropriately reflecting one of Professor Archibald's main interests.

    It starts with the essay awarded this year's D. S. Brewer Prize for a contribution by an early career scholar, which considers the little-known debt owed by early modern sailors to Arthurian knighthood and pageantry. The essays that follow begin with a wide-ranging account of manuscript decorations and annotations in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 'Historia', before turning to the Evil Custom trope in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. Further contributions explore the formalities of requests and conditions in Malory's 'Tale of Gareth', emotional excess and magical transformation in several scenes across the 'Morte Darthur', tensions between public and private and self and identity in Malory's 'Sankgreal', and friction between the (external and imposed) law and (internal and subjective but honourable) code of chivalry, especially apparent in Malory's final Tales. The last article examines the ways in which Mordred's origins in modern Arthurian fiction build on Malory's false, or forgotten, promise to relate Mordred's upbringing. The volume closes with a short tribute to Elizabeth Archibald, highlighting her leadership in the field and her encouragement of scholarly collaboration and community.

Arthurian Literature XXXVIII
  • Edited by Kevin S. Whetter, Megan G. Leitch
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    10 January 2024
    Print publication:
    04 April 2023
  • This issue offers stimulating studies of a wide range of Arthurian texts and authors, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, among which is the first winner of the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, awarded to a fascinating exploration of Ragnelle's strangeness in 'The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnelle'. It includes an exploration of Irish and Welsh cognates and possible sources for Merlin; Bakhtinian analysis of Geoffrey of Monmouth's playful discourse; and an account of the transmission of Geoffrey's text into Old Icelandic. In the Middle English tradition, there is an investigation of material Arthuriana in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight', followed by explorations of shame in Malory's 'Morte Darthur'. The post-medieval articles see one paper devoted to the paratexts of sixteenth-century French Arthurian publishers; one to eighteenth-century Arthuriana; and one to a range of nineteenth-century rewritings of the virginity of Galahad and Percival's Sister. Two Notes close this volume: one on Geoffrey's 'Vita Merlini' and a possible Irish source, and one on a likely source for Malory's linking of Trystram with the Book of Hunting and Hawking in an early form of 'The Book of St Albans'.

Arthurian Literature XXIII

Arthurian Literature XXV

Arthurian Literature
  • Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    02 March 2023
    Print publication:
    17 December 2009
  • Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. This book delivers some fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues.

Arthurian Literature XXXI
  • Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    24 February 2023
    Print publication:
    20 November 2014
  • Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues.

Arthurian Literature XXVII
  • Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    18 February 2023
    Print publication:
    18 November 2010
  • Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers some fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues.

Arthurian Literature XXIX
  • Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    14 February 2023
    Print publication:
    20 December 2012
  • Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues.

Arthurian Literature XXXVII

Arthurian Literature XXXII
  • Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson
  • With contributions by David Eugene Clark , Lisa Robeson , Marco Nievergelt , Ralph Norris , Sarah Randles , Richard Sévère , Larissa Tracy and Jaakko Tahkokallio
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    11 May 2021
    Print publication:
    17 December 2015
  • The essays collected here put considerable emphasis on Arthurian narratives in material culture and historical context, as well as on purely literary analysis, a reminder of the enormous range of interests in Arthurian narratives in the Middle Ages, in a number of different contexts.
    The volume opens with a study of torture in texts from Chrétien to Malory, and on English law and attitudes inparticular. Several contributors discuss the undeservedly neglected Stanzaic Morte Arthur, a key source for Malory. His Morte Darthur is the focus of several essays, respectively on thesources of the "Tale of Sir Gareth"; battle scenes and the importance of chivalric kingship; Cicero's De amicitia and the mixed blessings and dangers of fellowship; and comparison of concluding formulae in the Winchester Manuscript and Caxton's edition. Seven tantalizing fragments of needlework, all depicting Tristan, are discussed in terms of the heraldic devices they include. The volume ends with an update on newly discovered manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's seminal Historia regum Britanniae, the twelfth-century best-seller which launched Arthur's literary career.

    Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society; David F. Johnson is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.

    Contibutors: David Eugene Clark, Marco Nievergelt, Ralph Norris, Sarah Randles, Lisa Robeson, Richard Sévère, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Larissa Tracy

Arthurian Literature XXXVI
  • Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance
  • Edited by Megan G. Leitch, K. S. Whetter
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    17 April 2021
    Print publication:
    16 July 2021
  • Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

Arthurian Literature XXXV

Arthurian Literature

Arthurian Literature XXXIII
  • Edited by Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson
  • With contributions by Christopher Berard , Louise J. Boyle , Thomas Howard Crofts , Ralph Hanna , Georgia Lynn Henley and Erich Poppe
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    29 July 2017
    Print publication:
    16 December 2016
  • A wide range of Arthurian material is discussed here, reflecting its diversity, and enduring vitality. Geoffrey of Monmouth's best-selling Historia regum Britannie is discussed in the context of Geoffrey's reception in Wales and the relationship between Latin and Welsh literary culture. Two essays deal with the Middle English Ywain and Gawain: the first offers a comparative study of the Middle English poem alongside Chrétien's Yvain and the Welsh Owein, while the second considers Ywain and Gawain with the Alliterative Morte Arthure in their northern English cultural and political context, the world of the Percys and the Nevilles. It is followed by a discussion of Edward III's recuperation of his abandoned Order of the Round Table, which offers an intriguing explanation for this reversal in the context of Edward's victory over the French at Poitiers. The final essay is a comparison of fifteenth- and twentieth-century portrayals of Camelot in Malory and T.H. White, as both idea and locale, and a centre of hearsay and gossip. The volume is completed with a unique and little-known medieval Greek Arthurian poem, presented in facing-page edition and modern English translation.

    Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society; David F. Johnson is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.

    Contributors: Christopher Berard, Louis J. Boyle, Thomas H. Crofts, Ralph Hanna, Georgia Lynn Henley, Erich Poppe

Arthurian Literature XXX

Arthurian Literature XIX
  • Comedy in Arthurian Literature
  • Edited by Keith Busby, Roger Dalrymple
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    05 December 2002
  • The texts analyzed underline the wide dissemination of the Arthurian story in medieval and post-medieval Europe, from Scotland to Italy, while the various analyses of the manifestations of comedy refute the notion of romance as a humourless genre. Indeed, the comic treatment of conventional themes and motifs appears to be not only characteristic of later romance but an essential element of the genre from its beginnings and from its earliest development. Authors of Arthurian romance, from Chrétien de Troyes to Malory, writing in French, Italian, Middle Dutch, and Middle English, and the creators of an Irish prose-tale, all question the fundamental assumptions of romance and romance values through the medium of comedy. The theme of comedy in Arthurian romance has been developed from the orignal session at the Arthurian Congress in Toulouse. Contributors: ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, FRANK BRANDSMA, CHRISTINE FERLAMPIN-ACHER, LINDA GOWANS, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, MARGOLEIN HOGENBIRK, NORRIS J. LACY, MARILYN LAWRENCE, BENEDICTE MILLAND-BOVE, PETER S. NOBLE, KAREN PRATT, ANGELICA RIEGER, ELIZABETH S. SKLAR, FRANCESCO ZAMBON.

Arthurian Literature XXVIII
  • Blood, Sex, Malory: Essays on the 'Morte Darthur'
  • Edited by David Clark, Kate McClune
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    20 October 2011
  • Sex, blood, and gender have diverse associations in the Malorian tradition, yet their inter-relatedness and intersections are comparatively understudied. This present collection of essays is intended to go some way toward remedying the need for a sustained examination of blood ties, kinship, gender, and sexuality, and the prominence of these themes in Malory's work. They concentrate in particular upon the analyses of sexuality and sexual activity (and its lack or erasure) and the significance of blood (and blood-shedding) in the 'Morte Darthur', as well as the interconnections with gender (biological sex) and familial ("blood") relations in the 'Morte', its sources and its later reworkings. The result is a wide-ranging investigation into related but distinctive thematic preoccupations, including the national and kinship affiliations of Malorian knights, sibling relationships, deviant sexuality, and blood-spilling in martial and intimate contexts. Contributors: Christina Francis, Megan G. Leitch, Helen Phillips, Carolyne Larrington, Lydia A. Fletcher, Kate McClune, Sally Mapstone, Caitlyn Schwartz, Maria Sachiko Cecire, Anna Caughey, Catherine LaFarge

Arthurian Literature XVIII
  • Edited by Keith Busby
  • Published by:
    Boydell & Brewer
    Published online:
    05 February 2013
    Print publication:
    12 July 2001
  • Epitomises what is best in Arthurian scholarship today. ZEITSCHRIFT FüR ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE. This latest issue of 'Arthurian Literature' continues the tradition of the journal, combining critical studies with editions of primary Arthurian texts. Varied in their linguistic and chronological coverage, the articles deal with major areas of Arthurian studies, from early French romance through late medieval English chronicle to contemporary fiction. Topics include Béroul's 'Tristan', 'Tristan de Nanteuil', the Anglo-Norman 'Brut', and the 'Morte', while an edition of the text of an 'extrait' of Chrétien's 'Erec et Enide' prepared by the eighteenth-century scholar La Curne de Sainte-Palaye offers important insights into both scholarship on Chretien, and our understanding of the Enlightenment. The volume is completed with an encyclopaedic treatment of Arthurian literature, art and film produced between 1995 and 1995, acting as an update to 'The New Arthurian Encyclopedia'. Contributors: RICHARD ILLINGWORTH, JANE TAYLOR, CARLETON CARROLL, MARIA COLOMBO TIMELLI, RALUCA RADULESCU, JULIA MARVIN, NORRIS LACY, RAYMOND THOMPSON.