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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
Guest Editors: Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer
This special issue focuses on space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections between quest space and individual spirituality in the Vulgate Queste and Malory's Morte Darthur; penitence in Hartmann's Iwein and Gregorius; parallels in sacred spaces in the Matter of Britain and medieval Ireland; political prophecy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Awntyrs off Arthure A; syntagmatic and paradigmatic spaces in Chrétien's Perceval; spatial significance in Wigalois and Prosa Lancelot; the political meaning of the tomb of King Lot and the rebel kings in Malory's Morte Darthur; and sexual spaces in twelfth-century French romance.
Guest Editors: Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer
This special issue focuses on space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections between quest space and individual spirituality in the Vulgate Queste and Malory's Morte Darthur; penitence in Hartmann's Iwein and Gregorius; parallels in sacred spaces in the Matter of Britain and medieval Ireland; political prophecy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Awntyrs off Arthure A; syntagmatic and paradigmatic spaces in Chrétien's Perceval; spatial significance in Wigalois and Prosa Lancelot; the political meaning of the tomb of King Lot and the rebel kings in Malory's Morte Darthur; and sexual spaces in twelfth-century French romance.
Price: $120.00
Pages: 210
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Inc.
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Publication Date:
18 June 2021
Trim Size: 9.21 X 6.14 in
ISBN: 9781843846048
Format: Hardcover
BISACs:
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / General, Literature: history and criticism
Its tight thematic focus - sacred space and place in Arthurian romance - allows a deeper exploration of the different facets of these texts' sacred spaces ... Such a focus makes this book an essential contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Arthurian spaces and places.
General Editors' Preface
List of Contributors
Introduction: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance,
Sarah Bowden and Susanne Friede
1. The Church and the Otherworld: Sacred Spaces in the Matière de Bretagne and Medieval Ireland
John Carey
2. Sacred Spaces: the Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic construction of Narrated Space in Chrétien's Conte du Graal
Susanne Friede
3. Perceiving the Way: Sacred Spaces and Imaginary Pilgrimage in the Vulgate Cycle Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory's 'Tale of the Sankgreal'
Martha Claire Baldon
4. Affirming Absence and Embracing Nothing: on the Paradoxical Place of Heterosexual Sex in Medieval French Verse Romance
Charlie Samuelson
5. Spaces of Remorse: Penitential Allusions in Iwein
Sarah Bowden
6. The Spatial Narratives of Salvation and Damnation in Wigalois and the Prose Lancelot
Andreas Hammer
7. 'Fantoum and Fayryȝe': Visions of the End of Arthurian Britain
Victoria Flood
8. The Tomb of the Kings: Imperial Space in Arthur's Camelot
Cory James Rushton
List of Contributors
Introduction: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance,
Sarah Bowden and Susanne Friede
1. The Church and the Otherworld: Sacred Spaces in the Matière de Bretagne and Medieval Ireland
John Carey
2. Sacred Spaces: the Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic construction of Narrated Space in Chrétien's Conte du Graal
Susanne Friede
3. Perceiving the Way: Sacred Spaces and Imaginary Pilgrimage in the Vulgate Cycle Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory's 'Tale of the Sankgreal'
Martha Claire Baldon
4. Affirming Absence and Embracing Nothing: on the Paradoxical Place of Heterosexual Sex in Medieval French Verse Romance
Charlie Samuelson
5. Spaces of Remorse: Penitential Allusions in Iwein
Sarah Bowden
6. The Spatial Narratives of Salvation and Damnation in Wigalois and the Prose Lancelot
Andreas Hammer
7. 'Fantoum and Fayryȝe': Visions of the End of Arthurian Britain
Victoria Flood
8. The Tomb of the Kings: Imperial Space in Arthur's Camelot
Cory James Rushton