The court exercised an enormous amount of influence on the culture of the middle ages, as the essays collected here demonstrate. They examine a wide variety of different areas of medieval courtly culture, from the history of the book through courtly music to the theory of courtesy and courtly love. While some authors deal with the central texts of courtly literature, such as Castiglione's Book of the Courtier, Marie de France's Lais, the romances of Chretien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach, Gottfried von Strassburg, and the corpus of courtly lyric in various languages, others consider...
The court exercised an enormous amount of influence on the culture of the middle ages, as the essays collected here demonstrate. They examine a wide v...
A collection of 19 classic and original essays on Gawain, the hero of Arthurian legend, this casebook examines the character's evolution from the major medieval traditions, to his most recent appearances in popular culture, in modern literature and film.
A collection of 19 classic and original essays on Gawain, the hero of Arthurian legend, this casebook examines the character's evolution from the majo...
Keith Busby, Ad Putter, Leah Tether, Johnny McFadyen
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 Chretien de Troyes. Evidently a big hit, Arthur found himself being swiftly translated, adapted and integrated into the literary traditions...
The renowned and illustrious tales of King Arthur, his knights and the Round Table pervade all European vernaculars, as well as the Latin tradition...
