Böcker i Arthurian Studies-serien

A comprehensive survey of one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.

A critical edition of the "Prose Tristanis".

An exploration of how Malory deals with the themes of love, marriage and adultery, revealing the socially conservative vantage of the gentry and nobility.

The essays in this collection present a range of new ideas and approaches in Malory studies, looking again [as the title suggests] at several of the most debated critical points. A number of articles focus closely on the implications of the production of the text, ranging from the repercussions of the working habits of the Winchester scribes, as well as of Malory's printers and editors, to a reassessment of Caxton's Preface. There are also nuanced readingsof geography and politics in the Morte Darthur and its fifteenth-century contexts, and analyses of text and context in relation to the role of women, character and theme in the Morte, including the important questions of worshyp and mesure, as well as the issues of coherence and genre.

First full-length study of these crucial buildings in the Morte, looking at the interplay between characters and space.

The Grail legends have in modern times been appropriated by a number of different scholarly schools of thought; their approaches are analysed here.

Morte Darthur is investigated for its reflection of the contemporary political concerns Malory shared with the gentry class for whom he wrote.

The first full-length study to focus exclusively on American reinterpretations of the Arthurian legends.

An examination of both the role played by Fortune in Arthurian literature and legend, and the fortunes of the legend itself.

Eleven essays bring Arthurian studies into the 21st century, including film and black popular culture.

A three volume critical edition of the "Prose Tristan", based on a collation of all the manuscripts with the "Carpentras" manuscript (404).

Behind the chivalrous facade of Malory's work Kim detects the anxieties and aspirations of the real fifteenth-century aristocracy.

The most comprehensive consideration of the competing arguments for Malory's identitu yet undertaken.`A tour de force of historical scholarship and detective work - so good it sets the mind racing.'LITERARY REVIEW

Covers the production of Hartmann von Aue (fl 1180-1203), a figure of importance in the history of medieval German literature.

A survey of critical attention devoted to Arthurian matters.

Studies showing the influence of the French Arthurian romances of Chretien de Troyes on German medieval literature.

Contains essays on Arthurian prose romances. This title reflects the development and the reshaping of the romances in response to changing taste and fashion from the death of Chretien de Troyes to the end of the medieval period in England. It includes such topics as the transition of Arthurian material to foreign contexts.

A critical study of T.H. White's classic Arthurian tetralogy.

An examination of the importance of knightly combat in Malory's Morte Darthur.

Analysis of the relationship between the Winchester manuscript and Caxton's edition. Detailed linguistic analysis of the two versions of the Morte Darthur, charting important changes in the development of the English language.

Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research.

This anthology of medieval writing provides a context for a deeper understanding of the Gawain-poet's originality and skill.

A collection of Williams' poems including "Taliessin through Logres", "The Region of the Summer Stars", "The Advent of Galahad" and, "The Taliessin Cycle". This title introduces readers to these lyrical pieces, which evoke a spiritual world in keeping with the ideals of Arthurian literature.

Offers an introduction to Malory, and shows how to go about reading the "Morte Darthur" and to outline aspects of its basic character. This book shows how Malory worked and the extent and nature of his individual contribution and puts Malory and his book in their historical context.

Comprises selected papers from a Tristan symposium held at the Institute of Germanic Studies in London.

Investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's "Roman de Brut", to determine what principles guided the composition of the "English Brut". This book distinguishes between different sorts of variation from the Roman, thereby providing norms against which to gauge the probability of further, secondary sources.

French Tristan poets of the 12th century worked within a self-contained tradition. In the process of retelling the Tristan matter they elaborated a network of connections among the narrative elements of the French Tristan poems. This book traces the poets' conscious thought processes and unconscious associations as they reworked their material.

Presents essays that are centred on the theme of rewards and punishments in French Arthurian romance and the medieval lyric.

A critical edition of the "Prose Tristan".

The setting of medieval Arthurian romance, as typified by Malory's Morte Darthur, plays an important part in the creation of the atmosphere of the stories, and in intensifying the drama of the action. Professor Whitaker looks at the Arthurianworld which Malory inherited form his sources and to which he added his own details, and examines its different aspects: castles and forests, kingdoms and empires, showing how these diverge from reality to meetthe particular requirements of romance, how new political and temporal relationships are set up for the same reason, and how it was shaped by the presence of the Otherworld in the Celtic stories from which many episodes were drawn.