Recently added articles from Arthuriana:
Arthur's Battles
Dec 01, 2008; ... A handful of early documents bearing on the question of Arthur's existence look like serious efforts to preserve historical information. If read properly, they can, among other things, answer the question of whether or not Arthur really existed. (PJCF) 'It is the mark of an educated mind ...
Escape from Paradox: Perceval's Upbringing in the Conte du Graal
Dec 01, 2008; ... Perceval's mother's withdrawal from the community and her flawed education of her son suggest a spiritual crisis and doubt about God's presence in human life. (ES) In the seclusion of the Waste Forest, a widowed mother raises her youngest son outside of the life of the Church. This ...
National Icon: The Winchester Round Table and the Revelation of Authority
Dec 01, 2008; ... With its numinous aura the Winchester Round Table displays critical transitions in the conception of English royal authority at the turn of the medieval and early modern periods. (JW) A. TABLE OF CONTENTS 'Thys is the rownde table of kyng Arthur,' begins the inscription at the ...
Modernizing Joan of Arc: Conceptions, Costumes, and Canonization
Dec 01, 2008; ... ELLEN ECKER DOLGIN, Modernizing Joan of Arc: Conceptions, Costumes, and Canonization. Jefferson, NC: McFarland & Company, Inc. Publishers, 2008. Pp. vii, 199. isbn: 978-0-7864-3120-5. $35. The remarkable, anomalous life of the woman now known commonly as Joan of Arc (or Jeanne d'Arc) ...
La couronne ou l'auréole: Royauté terrestre et chevalerie celestielle dans la légende arthurienne (XIIe-XIIIe siècles)
Dec 01, 2008; ... CATALINA GÎRBEA, La couronne ou l'auréole: Royauté terrestre et chevalerie celestielle dans la légende arthurienne (XIIe-XIIIe siècles). Culture et société médiévales 13. Turnhout: Brepols, 2007. Pp. 603. isbn: 978-2-503-52531-0. Dr. GÎrbea's La couronne ou l'auréole is an uncommonly ...
Concepts of Arthur
Dec 01, 2008; ... THOMAS GREEN, Concepts of Arthur. U.K.: Stroud, Glos., 2008. Pp. 282. isbn:13:978- 0752444611. £15.19. Concepts of Arthur is that rare thing: a book that offers an original and refocused view of the nature of Arthur. Many Arthurian studies are based on the premise of Arthur as an ...
Christine de Pizan's Changing Opinion: A Quest for Certainty in the Midst of Chaos
Dec 01, 2008; ... 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 ...
Love and War in Cligés
Oct 01, 2008; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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; ... 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 ...