Recently added articles from Arthuriana:
Love and War in Cligés
Oct 01, 2008; McCracken, Peggy ... In the first part of Cligés, the intercalated stories of love and war suggest that each is articulated through the other. (PM) Cligés is the only one of Chrétien's romances in which he recounts a war. Critics have long noted the realistic detail that Chrétien uses to describe Angrés's ...
Of Cligés and Cannibalism
Oct 01, 2008; Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn ... Reading Cligés in light of the two Ovidian tales Chrétien cites in his prologue leads to a deeper understanding of his cannibalistic art. (MTB) 'J'ay une chanson faicte par un prisonner, où il y a ce traict: qu'ils viennent hardiment trétous et s'assemblent pour disner de luy; car ls ...
Honor, Debate, and Translatio imperii in Cligés
Oct 01, 2008; Kelly, Douglas ... This article treats the subject of honor as it is debated in Chrétien's romance. It deals in particular with the specific ways the topic can be evaluated, with an eye toward audience reaction and even discussion in the medieval court. The relation of honor to translatio imperii is also ...
Chrétien de Troyes's Cligés in the Medieval Mediterranean
Oct 01, 2008; Kinoshita, Sharon ... This article rereads Cliges in the context of medieval Mediterranean history, particularly the way the place names evoked subvert the text's claims for translatio studii. (SK) (ProQuest: Foreign text omitted.) Two-thirds of the way through Chretien de Troyes's late ...
The Fifteenth-Century Prose Cligés: Better Than Just Cutting to the Chase
Oct 01, 2008; Grimbert, Joan Tasker ... An analysis of the exchanges between Cligés and Fenice in this prose romance shows with what skill the redactor wove the elements he found most compelling in his model into a narrative-utterly devoid of irony-about two earnest individuals whose faithful hearts guide and justify their actions at ...
Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance
Oct 01, 2008; Krause, Kathy M ... TRACY ADAMS, Violent Passions: Managing Love in the Old French Verse Romance (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures) NY: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005. Pp. 311. ISBN: 1-4039-6294-4. $69.95. Tracy Adams's study of love in the twelfth-century Old French romance offers much of interest to ...
Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England
Oct 01, 2008; Simpson, Roger ... MICHAEL ALEXANDER, Medievalism: The Middle Ages in Modern England. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2007. Pp. xxviii, 306. 90 b/w, 20 col. illus. isbn: 978-0-300-11061-6. $45. -After fire destroyed St. Paul's Cathedral in 1666, it was rebuilt in a style modelled on classical ...
German Romance Volume III: Hartmann von Aue: Iwein or the Knight with the Lion
Oct 01, 2008; Sullivan, Joseph M ... CYRIL EDWARDS, ed. and trans., German Romance Volume III: Hartmann von Aue: Iwein or the Knight with the Lion. Arthurian Archives Vol. 16. Woodbridge, UK & Rochester, NY: D. S. Brewer, 2007. Pp. xxvi, 422. isbn: 978-1-84384-084-8. $105. Hartmann's circa 1200 Iwein is significant both ...
King Arthur: A Dramatick Opera/King Arthur/King Arthur/King Arthur
Oct 01, 2008; Hoffman, Don ... King Arthur: A Dramatick Opera. Music by HENRY PURCELL. Libretto by JOHN DRYDEN. Director and choreographer: MARK MORRIS. A co-production with English National Opera/Mark Morris Dance Group/New York City Opera in association with Cal Performances, Berkeley. Production premiere: June 26, 2006 ....
Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos
Oct 01, 2008; Margolis, Nadia ... DOUGLAS KELLY, Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos. Gallica Vol. 4. Cambridge, U.K.: D.S. Brewer, 2007. Pp. xiv, 226. isbn: 978-1-84384-111-1. $85. Douglas Kelly has always had interesting things to say on Christine, ever since his 1972 ...
Arthurian Writers: A Bibliographical Encyclopedia
Oct 01, 2008; Davidson, Roberta ... LAURA COONER LAMBDIN AND ROBERT THOMAS LAMBDIN, eds., Arthurian Writers: A Bibliographical Encyclopedia. Westport, Connecticut and London: Greenwood Press, 2008. Pp. xxiii, 401. isbn: 978-0-313-34682-8. $95.00. EBOOK $104.50. It is not necessary to have a degree in literature to be ...
A Companion to Wace
Oct 01, 2008; Marvin, Julia ... F.H.M. LE SAUX, A Companion to Wace. Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 2005. Pp. viii, 305. isbn: 1-84384-043-x. $90. Composer of some of the most substantial vernacular narrative poems surviving from the twelfth century, Wace died in the 1170s as a canon of Bayeux cathedral, after a ...
Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology
Oct 01, 2008; Marshall, John ... THOMAS H. OHLGREN, Robin Hood: The Early Poems, 1465-1560: Texts, Contexts, and Ideology, with an Appendix: The Dialects and Language of Selected Robin Hood Poems by Lister M. Matheson. Newark: University of Delaware Press, 2007. Pp. 278. isbn: 0-87413-96-3. $55. Two issues have ...
Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus
Oct 01, 2008; Crocker, Holly A ... GRETCHEN MIESZKOWSKI, Medieval Go-Betweens and Chaucer's Pandarus. New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006. Pp. x, 218. isbn: 1-403906341-x. $69.95. In this lucid study, Gretchen Mieszkowski traces the literary traditions of the gobetween that influence Chaucer's ...
Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature
Oct 01, 2008; Lim, Gary ... TISON PUGH, Sexuality and Its Queer Discontents in Middle English Literature. The New Middle Ages. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008. Pp. xii, 220. ISBN: 1-4039-8487-5. $74.95. In contrast to his focus on the disruptive and radical potential of queer identities in Queering Medieval ...
Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922-2005
Oct 01, 2008; Richards, Jeffrey ... ROGER SIMPSON, Radio Camelot: Arthurian Legends on the BBC, 1922-2005. Arthurian Studies lxx.Woodbridge, Suffolk: D.S. Brewer, 2008. Pp. xv, 193. isbn: 0261-9814. £50. There is no shortage of books on the Arthurian legends in poetry, painting, literature, music, and film. But until now ...
Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180
Oct 01, 2008; Finke, Laurie A ... ROBERT M. STEIN, Reality Fictions: Romance, History, and Governmental Authority, 1025-1180. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 294 pp. isbn: 978-0-268-04120-5. $30. Robert M. Stein's Reality Fictions begins with what has become by now a critical commonplace of twelfth ...
Pour un tombeau de Merlin: Du barde celte à la poésie moderne
Oct 01, 2008; Berthelot, Anne ... YVES VADÉ, Pour un tombeau de Merlin: Du barde celte à la poésie moderne. Paris: José Corti, 2008. Pp. 304. isbn: 2714309666. [euro] 22.00. Yves Vadé has chosen to resurrect the Renaissance tradition of the 'tombeau,' a literary homage to a late figure-in this case, somewhat ...
The Round Table
Oct 01, 2008; Shoaf, Judy ... Arthurnet: You say Briton, I say Breton?. Twelve years ago-or is it thirteen now?-I wrote a fateful post on Medtextl, the email discussion list for Medieval Texts, Philology, and Codicology. Someone had asked whether the intimacy between Lancelot and Guinevere in Chrétien de Troyes's ...