Elizabeth Archibald / Ad Putter (ed.)

The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

Herausgeber: Archibald, Elizabeth; Putter, Ad

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have inspired some of the most important works of European literature. This Companion outlines the evolution of the legend from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot.

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Produktdetails

• Cambridge Companions to Literature
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 286
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 426g
• ISBN-13: 9780521677882
• ISBN-10: 0521677882
• Artikelnr.: 26551664

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology
Introduction Ad Putter and Elizabeth Archibald
Part I. Evolution: 1. The early Arthur: history and myth Ronald Hutton
2. The twelfth-century Arthur Ad Putter
3. The thirteenth-century Arthur Jane H. M. Taylor
4. The fourteenth-century Arthur John Burrow
5. The fifteenth-century Arthur Barry Windeatt
6. The Arthur of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries Rob Gossedge and Stephen Knight
7. The Arthur of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Norris Lacy
Part II. Themes: 8. Questioning Arthurian ideals Elizabeth Archibald
9. Arthurian ethics Jane Gilbert
10. Imperial Arthur: home and away Andrew Lynch
11. Love and adultery: Arthur's affairs Peggy McCracken
12. Religion and magic Corinne Saunders
13. Arthurian geography Robert Allen Rouse and Cory James Rushton
Further reading
Index.