Norris J. Lacy (ed.)

The Fortunes of King Arthur

Herausgeber: Lacy, Norris J

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Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this volume offer a general overview and a number of detailed examinations of Arthur's fortunes, in two senses. First is the role of Fortune itself, often personified and consistently instrumental, in accounts of Arthur's court and reign. More generally the articles trace the trajectory of the Arthurian legend - its birth, rise and decline - through the middle ages. The final essay follows the continued turning of Fortune's wheel, emphasizing the modern revival and flourishing of the legend. The authors, all distinguished Arthurian scholars, illustrate their arguments through studies of early Latin and Welsh sources, chronicles, romances (in English, French, German, Italian, Latin and Welsh), manuscript illustration and modern literary texts.Contributors: Christopher A. Snyder, Sibn Echard, Edward Donald Kennedy, W.R.J. Barron, Dennis H. Green, Norris Lacy, Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan, Joan Tasker Grimbert, Alison Stones, Neil Thomas, Jane H.M. Taylor, Caroline D. Eckhardt and Alan C Lupack.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2005
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 762g
• ISBN-13: 9781843840619
• ISBN-10: 1843840618
• Artikelnr.: 21668402

Autorenporträt

Norris J. Lacy

Inhaltsangabe

Arthur and Kingship in the Historia Brittonum
Christopher A. Snyder `For Mortals are Moved by these Conditions': Fate, Fortune and Providence in Geoffrey of Monmouth
Sian Echard Visions of History: Robert de Boron and English Arthurian Chroniclers
Edward Donald Kennedy Bruttene Deorling: An Arthur for Every Age
King Arthur: From History to Fiction
Dennis H Green Welsh Tradition in Calais: Elis Gruffydd and his Biography of King Arthur
Ceridwen Lloyd
Morgan The Ambiguous Fortunes of Arthur: The Lancelot
Grail and Beyond
Norris J. Lacy Changing the Equation: The Impact of Tristan
Love on Arthur's Court in the Prose Tristan and La Tavola Ritonda
Joan Tasker Grimbert Illustration and the Fortunes of Arthur
Alison Stones The Fortunes of Arthur in the Later German Romances
Neil E. Thomas The Knight and the Parrot: Writing the Quest at the End of the Middle Ages
Jane H. M. Taylor Reconsidering Malory
Caroline Eckhardt `The Old Order Changeth': King Arthur in the Modern World
Alan Lupack