Handbook of Arthurian Romance : King Arthur's Court in Medieval European Literature.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (562 pages)
- De Gruyter Reference Series .
- De Gruyter Reference Series .
Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Table of contents -- List of Contributors -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction: King Arthur's Court in Medieval European Literature -- Section I. The Context of Arthurian Romance -- Historical Context: The Middle Ages and the Code of Chivalry -- The International Arthurian Society and Arthurian Scholarship -- The Evolution of the Critical Canon -- Text-Types and Formal Features -- The Arthur-Figure -- The Manuscript Context of Arthurian Romance -- Readership and Audience -- Section II. Approaching Arthurian Romance: Theories and Key Terms -- Chronology, Anachronism and Translatio Imperii -- Historiography: Fictionality vs. Factuality -- Rewriting: Translation, Continuation and Adaptation -- Intertextuality -- New Philology/Manuscript Studies -- Text and Image -- Material Studies -- The Natural World -- Gender/Queer Studies -- Orality, Literacy and Performativity of Arthurian Texts -- Medievalism -- Post-Colonial Studies -- Section III. Reading Arthurian Romances: Content, Method and Context -- Heinrich von dem Türlin's Diu Crône: Life at the Arthurian Court -- Herr Ivan: Chivalric Values and Negotiations of Identity -- La Tavola Ritonda: Magic and the Supernatural -- Chrétien de Troyes' Lancelot, ou le Chevalier de la charrette: Courtly Love -- Sir Percyvell of Galles: A Quest for Values -- Peredur son of Efrawg: The Question of Translation and/or Adaptation -- The Roman van Walewein and Moriaen: Travelling through Landscapes and Foreign Countries -- The Iberian Post-Vulgate Cycle: Cyclicity in Translation -- Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival: Searching for the Grail -- Chrétien de Troyes' Erec et Enide: Women in Arthurian Romance -- Merlin: Christian Ethics and the Question of Shame -- De ortu Walwanii and Historia Meriadoci: Technologies in/of Romance -- Jaufre: Genre Boundaries and Ambiguity -- Index.