Dutch Romances II

Ferguut
Erscheinungsjahr 2012
ISBN: 978-1-84384-309-2
Verlag: Early English Text Society

Buch, Germanic (Other), Band 7, 269 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 386 g

Reihe: Arthurian Archives

An adaptation of an Old French romance with parallel text, notes and a detailed introduction.

Some time in the first quarter of the thirteenth century, Guillaume le Clerc composed the story of Fergus, a romance in which the main character features as a "new" Perceval in a realistically depicted Scottish landscape. Shortlythereafter, perhaps as early as 1250, the story was translated into Middle Dutch. The Ferguut, however, is an adaptation of the Old French Fergus, rather than a slavish translation. The result is a romance which possesses all the appeal of the Old French Fergus, but at the same time reveals something of the Middle Dutch romancer's tastes and techniques. This volume offers the first ever English translation, facing a new edition of thetext, and will thus 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Johnson, David F

Claassens, Geert H M

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatur: Editionen, Kritische Editionen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Niederländische und Flämische Literaturen

Über Autor(innen)

Johnson, David F
DAVID F. JOHNSON is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.

Claassens, Geert H M
Geert H. M. Claassens is Professor of Middle Dutch Literature at KU Leuven. He has published widely on Middle Dutch Arthurian Romances and Charlemagne epics, Middle Dutch Bible translations and hagiography.

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.