Kingship, Conquest, and Patria: Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance

ISBN-13: 9780415972710 / Angielski / Twarda / 2005 / 244 str.

Kristen Lee Over

Opis

Distinctly interdisciplinary, Kingship, Conquest and Patria brings together French and Welsh studies with literary and historical analysis, and genre with questions of medieval colonialisms and national writing. Examining eight centuries worth of insular contintental literature, the author places the twelfth and thirteenth century development of Arthurian romance in the fraught historical context of the time. The book contextualizes how French Arthurian romance and Welsh rhamant collectively revised the figure of King Arthur created by earlier tradition and culminates in a focus on the romance portrait of King Arthur and its replacement by an ideal of knightly independence. This book will be an excellent addition to medieval studies bookshelves.

Spis treści

Series Editor Foreword Acknowledgments Introduction PART I. Arthurian Tradition before Chrétien de Troyes Chapter 1 Pre-Galfridian Latin and Vernacular Arthurian Narrative Chapter 2 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Politicization of King Arthur PART II. Conquest and National Cultural Production Chapter 3 Politics and Patronage in Northern France Chapter 4 Politics and Patronage in Wales PART III. The New King Arthur of French and Welsh Romance Chapter 5 Progressive Royal Decline in Arthurian Romance Chapter 6 Transcultural Change: Minor and Becoming-Minor Literature Conclusion Bibliography Index

O autorze

Kristen Lee Over