Arthurian Literature XLI

Erscheinungsjahr 2026
ISBN: 978-1-84384-811-0
Verlag: D.S.Brewer

Buch, Englisch, Band 41, 196 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 464 g

Reihe: Arthurian Literature

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.

This volume covers a wide range of materials, whether judged by national or linguistic literary traditions, time period, or critical methodology. It begins with the winning Brewer Prize essay (for an early career scholar): in this case, an investigation of transgender possibilities in the Grisandole episode from the Old French Suite du Merlin. Subsequent essays examine what can be gleaned of the legend of Melwas from surviving medieval and early modern Welsh tradition; the vexed question of Chrétien de Troyes' attitude to marriage; and the ways in which the authors of the Middle English Sir Percyvell and Middle Dutch Moriaen adapt and complete Chrétien's Conte du Graal. The volume closes with two different studies of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. The first presents an argument for a continuation of Lollard concerns into the fifteenth century, concerns that run throughout Malory's Arthuriad. The second re-opens the question of the provenance of William Caxton's copy-text for Malory's Morte, proposing that it was Anthony Wydeville, the brother-in-law of King Edward IV, who provided Caxton with his copy-text manuscript - as he designed the striking red-letter names visible today in the layout of the Winchester manuscript.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Whetter, K S

Weitere Mitwirkende

Putter, Ad

Lloyd-Morgan, Ceridwen

Charmaille, François·e

Hugen, Jelmar

Grimbert, Joan Tasker

Field, P J C

Wang, Stella

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

General Editor's Preface by K.S. Whetter
1. The Derek Brewer Essay Prize: Transgender Grammar in the Tale of Grisandole by François·e Charmaille.
2. Hero or villain? The portrayal of Melwas in Welsh Tradition by Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan.
3. Negotiating Marriage in Chrétien de Troyes (in the Age of Gratian's Decretum) by Joan Tasker Grimbert.
4. Closing Chrétien: Continuing and Rewriting the Conte du Graal in the Middle Dutch Moriaen and Middle English Sir Percyvell of Galles by Jelmar Hugen and Ad Putter.
5. Penance, Politics, and Heresy in the Age of Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur by Stella Wang.
6. Caxton and the Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts of Malory's Morte Darthur by P. J. C. Field.

Über Autor(innen)

Putter, Ad
Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol's Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.

Whetter, K S
K.S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University.