Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein

Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein
Author: Bart Besamusca
Publisher: DS Brewer
Total Pages: 230
Release: 1999
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780859915465

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New editor, new directions: the series broadens its scope to encompass European literatures other than French and English; still, however, "an indispensable component of any historical or Arthurian library". NOTES AND QUERIES This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the Roman van Walewein(The Romance of Walewein [Gawain]) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch literature which has recently become accessible to an English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain quite different to the man found in the English Sir Gawain and the Green Knightor the French Gauvain. Expert readings of the Walewein, especially commissioned and collected by BART BESAMUSCA and ERIK KOOPERof the University of Utrecht are provided by a group of renowned scholars, contributing to the on-going critical appraisal of the Walewein. KEITH BUSBY is George Lynn Cross Research Professor at the Center for Medieval and Renaissane Studies, University of Oklahoma. Contributors: BART BESAMUSCA, ERIK KOOPER, WALTER HAUG, DOUGLAS KELLY, NORRIS J. LACY, MATHIAS MEYER, AD PUTTER, FELICITY RIDDY, THEA SUMMERFIELD, JANE H.M. TAYLOR, BART VELDHOEN, NORBERT VOORWINDEN, LORI WALTERS

Arthurian Literature XVII

Arthurian Literature XVII
Author: Bart Besamusca
Publisher:
Total Pages: 207
Release: 1999
Genre: Arthurian romances
ISBN:

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Handbook of Arthurian Romance

Handbook of Arthurian Romance
Author: Leah Tether
Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Total Pages: 563
Release: 2017-06-26
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 3110432463

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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.

Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context

Medieval English and Dutch Literatures: the European Context
Author: Larissa Tracy
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 408
Release: 2022-07-12
Genre: Dutch literature
ISBN: 1843846349

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This collection honours the scholarship of Professor David F. Johnson, exploring the wider view of medieval England and its cultural contracts with the Low Countries, and highlighting common texts, motifs, and themes across the textual traditions of Old English and later medieval romances in both English and Middle Dutch.

Arthurian Literature

Arthurian Literature
Author: Bart Besamusca
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 1843841169

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Essays demonstrating that Arthur belonged to the whole of Europe - not just England.

Dutch Romances

Dutch Romances
Author: David Frame Johnson
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 568
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780859915847

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The gem in the crown of Middle Dutch Arthurian romance, the Roman van Walewein embodies the transformation of popular folktale into courtly romance; in its rich variety of Arthurian motifs, it stands as an equal to the masterpiece of English romance, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. The framework of the romance is a tripartite series of quests, in which the hero, Walewein, must acquire and relinquish successive marvellous objects. Events are set in motion after Arthur and his knights have completed their meal, when a flying chess set enters the hall; Walewein embarks on a series of quests to capture it and bring it back to Arthur, but to do so he must first acquire the Sword of the Two Rings for King Wonder, and subsequently the fair Princess Ysabele for King Amoraen/Amorijs. A particularly notable feature of this romance is the way in which Walewein emerges from it as the epitome of knightly virtue, at a time when in the French tradition Gauvain's reputation had sunk to its lowest. This edition of the text, accompanied by facing English translation, will 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.

Chrétien de Troyes

Chrétien de Troyes
Author: Douglas Kelly
Publisher: Tamesis Books
Total Pages: 600
Release: 2002
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781855660830

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The supplement to the 1976 original bibliography reflects the expanding scope of modern Chrétien studies, including items from around the world, with the assistance of an international team of scholars. The Supplement builds on and completes the Chrétien de Troyes Bibliography first published in 1976. Together the two volumes constitute the fullest and most complete bibliographical source now available on this major medieval author. Chrétien de Troyes bequeathed a corpus of highly original and widely influential Arthurian romances. Indeed, his direct or indirect influence continued throughout the middle ages and beyond into modern times. The Bibliographypermits students of medieval romance to quickly identify the areas in which Chrétien scholarship has been active. Items are listed under twenty-two topics, with numerous sub-sections under each topic, and cross-references for items that treat more than one of the topics. The broad geographic and linguistic scope of modern Chrétien studies is evident in items not only from western Europe and North America, but also from the growing body of medieval scholarship in eastern Europe, Asia, Africa, South America, and Australasia. To ensure accuracy and completeness, the editor has been assisted by scholars competent in the many languages in which Chrétien studies are now published, most notably in Japanese, Welsh, Rumanian, Hungarian and Polish, as well as by other scholars and librarians who generously provided assistance and information in finding items difficult to access.

Malory and His European Contemporaries

Malory and His European Contemporaries
Author: Miriam Edlich-Muth
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 202
Release: 2014
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1843843676

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A reconsideration of Arthurian compilations in the late middle ages, looking at the complex ways in which they reshape their material for new audiences.

Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature

Torture and Brutality in Medieval Literature
Author: Larissa Tracy
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2015
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1843843935

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A new look at the way in which medieval European literature depicts torture and brutality.

People and Texts

People and Texts
Author: Thea Summerfield
Publisher: Rodopi
Total Pages: 219
Release: 2007
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 9042021454

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Relationships between people and texts form the focus of the studies collected in this book. It was presented to Erik Kooper in recognition of his lifelong efforts to bring together people from universities worldwide. It will be of special interest to scholars and students of Arthurian and Middle English literature, codicologists, scholars interested in medieval Latin sermons and the Gesta Herewardi, in medieval drama and in texts in Middle English, among them Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Wynnere and Wastoure, Sir Eglamour, the Tale of Gamelyn, a nd, in Scots, the metrical chronicle of William Stewart. Articles on early twentieth-century Chaucerian scholarship and on many of the Old French Arthurian romances as well as the writings of Wace and Benoit de Sainte-Maure are also included. Contributors are Bart Besamusca, Frank Brandsma, Rolf H. Bremmer, Jr., Keith Busby, D.J. Curnow and Ad Putter, Juliette Dor, Frans N.M. Diekstra, Karen Hodder and John Scattergood, Geert van Iersel, Douglas Kelly, Edward Donald Kennedy, Jane Roberts, Elsa Strietman and Thea Summerfield.