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Arthurian literature. XXXII by David Eugene Clark; Lisa Robeson; Marco Nievergelt; Ralph Norris; Sarah Randles; Richard Sévère; Larissa Tracy; Jaakko Tahkokallio is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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The essays collected here put considerable emphasis on Arthurian narratives in material culture and historical context, as well as on purely literary analysis, a reminder of the enormous range of interests in Arthurian narratives in the Middle Ages, in a number of different contexts. The volume opens with a study of torture in texts from Chrétien to Malory, and on English law and attitudes inparticular. Several contributors discuss the undeservedly neglected Stanzaic __Morte Arthur__, a key source for Malory. His __Morte Darthur__ is the focus of several essays, respectively on thesources of the "Tale of Sir Gareth"; battle scenes and the importance of chivalric kingship; Cicero's __De amicitia__ and the mixed blessings and dangers of fellowship; and comparison of concluding formulae in the Winchester Manuscript and Caxton's edition. Seven tantalizing fragments of needlework, all depicting Tristan, are discussed in terms of the heraldic devices they include. The volume ends with an update on newly discovered manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's seminal __Historia regum Britanniae__, the twelfth-century best-seller which launched Arthur's literary career. Elizabeth Archibald is Pro
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- Author
- David Eugene Clark; Lisa Robeson; Marco Nievergelt; Ralph Norris; Sarah Randles; Richard Sévère; Larissa Tracy; Jaakko Tahkokallio
- Publisher
- Boydell and Brewer Limited
- Published
- 2015
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781782046646
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Romance, Literary Criticism, Literary Fiction