{"product_id":"ethics-in-the-arthurian-legend-9781843846871","title":"Ethics in the Arthurian Legend","description":"\u003cb\u003eAn interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom its earliest days, the Arthurian legend has been preoccupied with questions of good kingship, the behaviours of a ruling class, and their effects on communities, societies, and nations, both locally and in imperial and colonizing contexts. Ethical considerations inform and are informed by local anxieties tied to questions of power and identity, especially where leadership, service, and governance are concerned; they provide a framework for understanding how the texts operate as didactic and critical tools of these subjects.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book brings together chapters drawing on English, Welsh, German, Dutch, French, and Norse iterations of the Arthurian legend, and bridging premodern and modern temporalities, to investigate the representation of ethics in Arthurian literature across interdisciplinary and transhistorical lines. They engage a variety of methodologies, including gender, critical race theory, philology, literature and the law, translation theory, game studies, comparative, critical, and close reading, and modern editorial and authorial practices. Texts interrogated range from \u003ci\u003eCulhwch and Olwen\u003c\/i\u003e to \u003ci\u003eParzival\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eRoman van Walewein, Tristrams Saga, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight,\u003c\/i\u003e and Malory's \u003ci\u003eMorte Darthur\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs a whole, the approaches and findings in this volume attest to the continued value and importance of the Arthurian legend and its scholarship as a vibrant field through which to locate and understand the many ways in which medieval literature continues to inform modern sensibilities and institutions, particularly where the matter of ethics is concerned.","brand":"Melissa Ridley Elmes","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280373100795,"sku":"9781843846871","price":115.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781843846871_616e3225-ba77-4bcf-8d58-0f5fc0002bab.jpg?v=1772487529","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/ethics-in-the-arthurian-legend-9781843846871","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}