Now Out in Paperback - The Arthurian World

I'm excited to see this is now in paperback. Full details and ordering information at https://www.routledge.com/The-Arthurian-World/Coldham-Fussell-Edlich-Muth-Ward/p/book/9781032186320. 

The Arthurian World

Edited By Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Miriam Edlich-Muth, Renée Ward

Copyright 2022

Paperback - $47.99

Hardback - $240.00

eBook - $47.99

ISBN 9781032186320

602 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations

Paperback published April 14, 2025 by Routledge

Description

This collection provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the world of Arthur by looking beyond the canonical texts and themes, taking instead a transversal perspective on the Arthurian narrative. Together, its thirty-four chapters explore the continuities that make the material recognizable from one century to another, as well as transformations specific to particular times and places, revealing the astonishing variety of adaptations that have made the Arthurian story popular in large parts of the world.

Divided into four parts—The World of Arthur in the British Isles, The European World of Arthur, The Material World of Arthur, and The Transversal World of Arthur — the volume tracks the legend’s movement across temporal, geographical, and material boundaries. Broadly chronological, each part views the unfolding Arthurian story through its own lens, while temporal and geographical overlaps between the sections underscore the proximity of these developments in the legend’s history.

Ranging from early Latin chronicles and Welsh poetry to twenty-first century anime and political conspiracies, this comprehensive and illuminating book will be of interest to anyone researching Arthurian literature or tracing the evolution of medievalism through literature, the visual arts, and popular culture.

Contents

Introduction

PART I: The World of Arthur in the British Isles

1 King Arthur: Hero or Legend?

P. J. C. Field

2 The Invention of Arthurian Britain: Arthur in the Early Welsh Literary Tradition

Helen Fulton

3 Arthur Among the Nine Worthies

Audrey Martin and David Mason

4 Prophecy and Place in the Arthurian Tradition

Victoria Flood

5 Spenser, Malory, and Regionalism in Arthurian Literature

Kenneth Hodges

6 The Post-medieval Arthur at War

Andrew Lynch

7 The Arthurian Legends in the Sixteenth Century: The Misfortunes of Arthur and The Faerie Queene

Andrew Hadfield

8 "what’s past is prologue" – Early Modern Explorations of Arthurian Romance and Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Claudia Olk

9 Victorian Medievalisms: Rehabilitating Arthur in Eleonora Louisa Hervey’s The Feasts of Camelot

Renée Ward

10 Staging Guenevere’s Maternity in Richard Hovey’s The Marriage of Guenevere and The Birth of Galahad

Virginia Blanton

PART II: The European World of Arthur

11 The Byelorussian Tristan

Milica Spremić Končar

12 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Irish Arthurian Romances

Bernadette Smelik

13 No Country for Young Men: The Challenge of the Medieval Greek Old Knight

Thomas H. Crofts

14 A Not-So-Unique Text: Melekh Artus and Medieval Jewish Arthurian Romance

Caroline Gruenbaum

15 Viduvilt: The Yiddish World of Arthur

Annegret Oehme

16 No Knights, No England, No Arthur: Arthurian Theater in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany

Cora Dietl

17 Guiron le Courtois Across Borders: The Life of a Prose Narrative Cycle

Nicola Morato

18 Optical Illusion, Illusory Objects, and the Quest of the Holy Grail in the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal and Perlesvaus

Martha Baldon

PART III: The Material World of Arthur

19 Making and Illustrating Arthurian Manuscripts

Alison Stones

20 Sir Palamedes the Indelibly "Saracen" Knight: Heraldry, Monstrosity, and Race in Fifteenth-Century Arthurian Romance Manuscripts

Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan

21 Minding the Gaps: Topology and Gender in the Remediation of Medieval German Arthurian Romance

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

22 Arthurian Imagination in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Art

Peter N. Lindfield

23 Finding Arthur in the Percy Folio

Katie Garner

24 A History of Malory’s Morte Darthur in Print

James Wade

25 A Grave Discovery? Guinevere’s Death and Burial at Amesbury in Medieval and Early Modern Tradition

Mary Bateman

PART IV: The Transversal World of Arthur

26 The Arthurian Legends in America

Alan Lupack

27 In the Ancient Days of Sagas: Astrid Lindgren and the Legacy of Arthurian Romance

Sofia Lodén

28 "Hail to the king[s], baby": Arthur vs Army of Darkness

Jeff Massey and Tabitha Ochtera

29 Arthur in Modern Fantasy Literature

Shiloh Carroll

30 Cinema Arthuriana and the Knights of the Not-So-Round Table

Kevin J. Harty

31 The Grail is in Another Castle: The World of Arthur in Digital Games

Alicia McKenzie

32 Desire and the Flexible Grail: The Japanese Fate Franchise and Evolving Notions of Arthurian Power

E. L. Risden

33 "Moor" and "Saracen" in Medieval and Contemporary Arthurian Texts

Kris Swank

34 Guy Ritchie, King Arthur, and the Great Conspiracy

Andrew B. R. Elliot

About the Editors

Victoria Coldham-Fussell is a Research Ethics Adviser for Victoria University of Wellington—Te Herenga Waka. Her research focuses on renaissance humor and the work of Edmund Spenser. She is the author of Comic Spenser: Faith, Folly, and The Faerie Queene (2020), co-author of the Oxford Bibliographies article 'Edmund Spenser' (2017), and contributor to Conversātiō—In the Company of Bees (2021).

Miriam Edlich-Muth holds the Chair of Medieval English and Historical Linguistics at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Renée Ward is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK, and co-editor of The Year’s Work in Medievalism.

Apocalyptic Arthuriana - Kalamazoo 2025 Co-Sponsored Session

I am pleased to report the success earlier today of our first co-sponsored session for this year's International Congress on Medieval Studies. 

Please find the session details below.

Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (Virtual)

60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)

Session 144: Thursday, 8 May, from 7:00-8:30 PM EDT

Principal Sponsoring Organization:

Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain

Co-Sponsoring Organization(s):

International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)

Organizers: Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College; Joseph M. Sullivan, Univ. of Oklahoma

Presider: Karen Casey Casebier - Univ. of Tennessee–Chattanooga

Morte Darthur: Conflicted Loyalties, Promised Reconciliation

Hannah Montgomery, Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Abstract:

Many scholars have commented on the importance of fellowship and unity in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur, and it is the failure of this central ideal that leads to Arthur’s death. Malory depicts the fall of Camelot as specifically a civil war. While there is still an element of divine retribution for the moral failings of Arthur and his knights, the immediate and primary cause is discord within the Round Table fellowship. These cracks within the Round Table are not the result of simple disloyalty or betrayal, but rather of irreconcilable conflicts of loyalty coming to a head and forcing Arthur’s most faithful knights to choose between a multitude of important relationships, whether to be loyal to their lord, their brother in arms, their lady, or their family.

In part because Morte Darthur ends in conflict, without resolution, there have long been debates about its genre. While Whetter has argued that Morte Darthur is best understood not as a romance but as a tragic-romance, I argue that it is actually an incomplete romance. The promised return of Arthur suggests the completion of the genre’s narrative pattern of separation and return, rise, fall, and rise again, a narrative structure that I argue is linked to a generic relationship arc of separation and reunion or reconciliation. In delaying, yet promising, the return, Arthurian legend forces us to linger in the moment of conflict, drawing attention to the causes of the fall, but leaves hope that, although reconciliation is not currently possible, it is yet to come.

Hannah Montgomery is a PhD candidate in the Department of English and Comparative Literature at UNC Chapel Hill. Her dissertation project analyzes the role of friendship and loyalty in Middle English romance, considering their connections to ideas of identity and ethics, and arguing for the centrality of interpersonal relationships to the plot, structure, and themes of the genre. She is currently working on a chapter examining romances’ simultaneous idealization and problematization of knightly brotherhood. Her other research and teaching interests include fantasy and medievalism.

Cthulhu Returns to Camelot: New Works of Lovecraft-Inspired Arthurian Fiction

Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College

Abstract:

In the Matter of Britain, there are multiple ways for Camelot to fall, but some of the more interesting occur in texts that mash up the Arthurian legends with the Cthulhu Mythos of H P. Lovecraft. This presentation represents the latest update in my ongoing attempt to catalog representation of Lovecraft-inspired Arthuriana and will focus on the recent anthology series Shadows Over Avalon (2022-2023) published by 18th Wall Productions.

Michael A. Torregrossa (he/him/his) is a graduate of the Medieval Studies program at the University of Connecticut (Storrs) and works as an adjunct instructor of writing and literature courses in both Rhode Island and Massachusetts. His research focuses on popular culture’s adaptation, appropriation, and transformation of literary classics, like the Arthurian legends and the works of writer H. P. Lovecraft. In addition to these pursuits, Michael is the founder of The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain (2000-) and The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture (2004-). He also serves as editor for these organizations' various blogs and as moderator of their discussion lists and leads the development of their conference activities. Besides this work, Michael is active in the Northeast Popular Culture/American Culture Association (a.k.a. NEPCA) and organizes sessions for their annual conference in the fall. Since 2019, Michael has been NEPCA’s Monsters and the Monstrous Area Chair, but he previously served as its Fantastic (Fantasy, Science Fiction, and Horror) Area Chair, a position he held from 2009-2018. 

Rebuilding Camelot: Life After Arthur's Death in Grossman's The Bright Sword

Leah Haught, Univ West Georgia

Abstract:

Can Camelot survive Arthur's death? Versions of this question have, of course, haunted Arthuriana since the Middle Ages. In these remarks, I will briefly explore how Grossman's recent reimagining of Arthur's death as survived only by the Round Table's "oddballs" is in conversation with medieval narratives that end with Arthur's death, including the Alliterative Morte and Malory. Grossman's original character, Collum, is determined to uphold the legacy of the recently killed king who he long idolized, but he quickly realizes that he isn't entirely sure what that legacy is or should be. Along with the other survivors of Camlann, Collum tries make his way in an Arthurless world, which appears at times impossible, at times hopeful, and, more often than not, inevitable.

Leah Haught is an Associate Professor of English at the University of West Georgia. Her research interests include the Arthurian legend, cultural understandings of gender and sexuality, the history of monsters, and the functions of nostalgia within medievalism. Her work frequently explores the intersections between past and present idealisms and has been published in Arthuriana, Parergon, JEGP, Year’s Work in Medievalism, and Studies in Medievalism as well a variety of edited collections. Forthcoming publications include a chapter in The Cambridge History of Arthurian Literature and Culture and a co-edited volume for METS.

Sheble and Yee on Visualizing Camelot

 Further events in the Visualizing Camelot series;

UPDATE Teaching the Arthurian Tradition (12/1/2024; Illinois Medieval Association Symposium 1/17/2025)

The deadline for the January 17 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium session, Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, has been extended to December 1. Please see the CFP below.



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Deadline for Proposals: December 1

Session: 2:00 pm (Central) January 17, online via Zoom

The Arthurian Tradition(s) is often most students’ first and only exposure to the Middle Ages. Exposure often comes from films that students have seen: Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004), Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), and Lowery’s Green Knight (2021). What students learn from a course or unit on the Arthurian Tradition(s) is often very different from filmed depictions. This session seeks papers that explore issues, opportunities, and innovations in teaching the Arthurian Traditions(s). We welcome all aspects of teaching Arthuriana.

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than December 1, 2024.













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Michael W. Hollis-George


Executive Director
Illinois Medieval Association




Professor of English
Millikin University

mwgeorge.51@gmail.com

Facebook: facebook.com/illinoismedieval

Twitter: @IllinoisMediev1

Notice Visualizing Camelot Series Continues

 My thanks to Barbara Lupack for sharing this:

VISUALIZING CAMELOT 

An Exhibition from the Collection of Alan Lupack and Barbara Tepa Lupack

At the University of Rochester

Visualizing Camelot, a library-wide exhibition that runs until early December, 2024, explores the diverse ways that the stories of King Arthur’s Camelot have been imagined, reimagined, and visualized—both in high culture (paintings, drawings, illustrated books) and in popular culture (film, toys, games, comic books, cartoons, dishware, product names, business logos, etc). More than 350 items, including numerous original works of art, are on display. The exhibition is free and open to all. There is also a digital version of the exhibition, which can be accessed at Welcome · Visualizing Camelot · RBSCP Exhibits (rochester.edu)

Among the fall events that will be held in conjunction with the exhibition is a series of lectures. On September 19, 2024, at 5:00 p.m., Dr. Dorsey Armstrong, professor at Purdue University and editor of the journal Arthuriana, will speak about “Questing after the Questing Beast: Representing the Beast Glatisant from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period.” Her presentation will be held on-site at the Robbins Library of Rush Rhees Library and will also be Zoomed (registration for the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/vGeGMsZTyVmwMkiUA). On October 24, 2024, internationally-acclaimed artist Anna-Marie Ferguson, illustrator of the Cassell edition of Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur, will speak about “Illustrating the Arthurian Legends: A Conversation with Artist Anna-Marie Ferguson.” Held on-site at the Robbins Library of Rush Rhees Library, the presentation will also be Zoomed (registration for the Zoom link: https://forms.gle/7v33aDh3QXg4caYb9.)

The presentations are free and open to all. Please check back for other Visualizing Camelot fall events and activities. We hope that you will visit the exhibition and join us for some or all of the events!

September 19, 2024, 5:00 p.m. EST.  Robbins Library. 

“Questing after the Questing Beast: Representing the Beast Glatisant 

from the Middle Ages to the Modern Period.”

Registration for Zoom link: https://forms.gle/vGeGMsZTyVmwMkiUA

Presented by Dr. Dorsey Armstrong, Professor at Purdue University

The Questing Beast (or the Beast Glatisant [Barking Beast])—a strange creature with the head and neck of a serpent, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion, and the feet of a hart—is the subject of quests by a number of Arthur’s knights, including King Pellinore, Sir Palamedes, and Sir Percival. Dr. Armstrong will explore the representations of the Questing Beast from the medieval to the modern.

         

    

Dr. Armstrong has written and lectured extensively on the Arthurian legends. Author of Gender and the Chivalric Community in Malory's Morte d'Arthur (2003) and a modern English translation of Malory's Morte Darthur (2009), she serves as Editor-in-Chief of Arthuriana and sits on the board of directors of TEAMS.

Dr. Armstrong’s presentation is the first of several fall events and lectures in conjunction with the Visualizing Camelot exhibition. Please check back for updates.

October 24, 2024, 5:00 p.m. EST.  Robbins Library. 

“Illustrating the Arthurian Legends:

A Conversation with Artist Anna-Marie Ferguson.”

Registration for Zoom link: https://forms.gle/7v33aDh3QXg4caYb9

   

Internationally acclaimed author and Illustrator of Legend: the Arthurian Tarot and its accompanying book, A Keeper of Words, Anna-Marie Ferguson is also the illustrator of the 2010 Cassell edition of Malory’s Le Morte d’ Arthur. She holds the distinction of being the first woman artist ever to illustrate a complete Malory. Her interest in mythology and history is longstanding, and her art draws on the magic and legends of her birthplace in the historic New Forest of Southern England and the vast landscapes and natural beauty of Alberta, Canada, where she currently resides.

Please check back for updates on other fall events and lectures in conjunction with the Visualizing Camelot exhibition.

VISUALIZING CAMELOT 

Upcoming Fall Exhibition Events and Programs

     All presentations will be held on-site at the Robbins Library @ Rush Rhees Library 

          and will also be Zoomed. Please check back for updates. Hope you will join us!

Dr. Margaret Sheble, ACLS “Leading Edge” Fellow,

will speak about representations of the Lady of Shalott.

When: November 15, 3 pm EST
Where: Robbins Library and Zoom
Registration for Zoom link: TBA

  

Dr. Pamela Yee, University of Rochester, 

will speak about the Arthurian Legends and Vietnam

When: November 21, 5 pm EST
Where: Robbins Library and Zoom
Registration for Zoom link: TBA

CFP More than The Green Knight: Exploring the Ongoing Tradition of Adapting and Appropriating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (hybrid) (9/15/2024; ICMS Kalamazoo 5/8-10/2025)

Call for Papers

More than The Green Knight: Exploring the Ongoing Tradition of Adapting and Appropriating Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (hybrid)

Sponsored by Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture; International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB); International Pearl-Poet Society

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa, Joseph M. Sullivan, and Amber Dunai


60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

Session Information

Released in 2021, David Lowery’s film The Green Knight thrust the medieval romance Sir Gawain and the Green Knight into the spotlight like never before and attracted the attention of viewers and critics across the globe. Scholars of medieval literature and film have also been inspired by the film’s release, and there is now a flourishing field of The Green Knight Studies as displayed in articles, books, conferences, essays, special issues, and themed sessions. However, all of this attention on Lowery’s work creates a limited understanding of the full post-medieval afterlife of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.


We propose this session as a counter to the flurry of attention on Lowery’s work. The Green Knight is merely one example of a much wider array of adaptations of the story that began in the sixteenth century with The Greene Knight and continues to this day with comics, drama, fiction, film, games, illustration, music, opera, picture books, radio broadcasts, and television programming. Beyond these, aspects of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight have been appropriated by many creative artists and integrated into their own creations in various media. Collectively, these adaptations and appropriations make up a rich textual tradition for Sir Gawain and the Green Knight that now extends over five centuries and deserves more notice.


Our intent in this session is twofold:

• First, to uncover what we lose by focusing on Lowery’s film outside of the larger context of adaptation and appropriations of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.
• Second, to highlight what can be added to the larger fields of Arthurian Studies and Pearl-Poet Studies by widening our view of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight to include further or other adaptations and appropriations of the text in our research and teaching.

Submissions should address at least one (if not both) of the following questions:

• What other adaptations and appropriations do we miss by focusing on Lowery’s film?
• What do we gain (for the disciple, our students, and/or ourselves) when we look beyond it?

Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com.

Submissions will also be considered as part of an essay collection on the theme.

Submission Information

The process for proposing contributions to sessions of papers, roundtables and poster sessions for the International Congress on Medieval Studies uses an online submission system powered by Confex. Be advised that submissions cannot be accepted through email. Rather, access the direct link in Confex to our session at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/paper/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6431. You can also view the full Call for Papers list at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call.


Within Confex, proposals to sessions of papers, poster sessions and roundtables require the author's name, affiliation and contact information; an abstract (300 words) for consideration by session organizer(s); and a short description (50 words) that may be made public. Proposals to sessions of papers and poster sessions also require a title for the submission (contributions to roundtables are untitled).


Proposers of papers or contributions to roundtables for hybrid sessions should indicate in their abstracts whether they intend to present in person or virtually.


If you need help with your submissions, the Congress offers some resources at the Participating in the Congress page at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/participating-congress. Click to open the section labeled “Propose a Paper” and scroll down for the Quick Guide handouts.



Be advised of the following policies for participating in the Congress:


You are invited to propose one paper (as a sole author or as a co-author) for one session of papers. You may propose a paper for a sponsored or special session or for the general sessions, but not both. You may propose an unlimited number of contributions to roundtables and poster sessions, but you will not be scheduled to actively participate (as paper presenter, roundtable discussant, poster author, presider, respondent, workshop leader, demonstrator or performer) in more than three sessions.


Further details on the Congress’s Policies can be found at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/policies-guidelines.



A reminder: Presenters accepted to the Congress must register for the full event. The registration fee is the same for on-site and virtual participants. For planning, the cost for the previous year’s event is posted at the Congress’s Registration page at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/registration.


If necessary, the Medieval Institute and Richard Rawlinson Center at Western Michigan University offer limited funding to presenters. These include both subsidized registration grants and travel awards. Please see the Awards page at the Congress site for details at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/awards.

CFP Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (virtual) (9/15/2024; ICMS Kalamazoo 5/8-10/2025)

Apocalyptic Arthuriana (A Roundtable) (virtual)

Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB)

Organized by Michael A. Torregrossa and Joseph M. Sullivan


60th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, Michigan)

Hybrid event: Thursday, 8 May, through Saturday, 10 May, 2025

Please Submit Proposals by 15 September 2024

Session Information

The Arthurian story is one of rise, fall, and promised return.


In this panel, we’d like to focus, in part, on the end of Camelot to explore the events and interactions that caused its downfall in texts both medieval and post-medieval.


Related to this, we are also interested in tales from across the ages that move Arthurian elements across space and time, where, as once and future devices and figures, the relics and members of Arthur’s court are pitted against new threats endangering the realm and/or the world at large.


Thank you for your interest in our session. Please address questions and/or concerns to the organizers at MedievalinPopularCulture@gmail.com.

Guiding Questions

• How do notions of loss, catastrophe, and/or calamity figure into Arthurian narratives (past or present)?
• What are the affordances of the Arthurian corpus in theorizing about calamity in a range of contexts (medieval to present)?
• Who causes the fall of Camelot? Why? How?
• Who survives the fall of Camelot? Why? How?
• Which devices and figures are revived? When? Where? Why?
• What/Who do these revived devices and figures face in new eras and places?

Submission Information

The process for proposing contributions to sessions of papers, roundtables and poster sessions for the International Congress on Medieval Studies uses an online submission system powered by Confex. Be advised that submissions cannot be accepted through email. Rather, access the direct link in Confex to our session at https://icms.confex.com/icms/2025/round/papers/index.cgi?sessionid=6421. You can also view the full Call for Papers list at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call.


Within Confex, proposals to sessions of papers, poster sessions and roundtables require the author's name, affiliation and contact information; an abstract (300 words) for consideration by session organizer(s); and a short description (50 words) that may be made public. Proposals to sessions of papers and poster sessions also require a title for the submission (contributions to roundtables are untitled).


Proposers of papers or contributions to roundtables for hybrid sessions should indicate in their abstracts whether they intend to present in person or virtually.


If you need help with your submissions, the Congress offers some resources at the Particpating in the Congress page at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/participating-congress. Click to open the section labeled “Propose a Paper” and scroll down for the Quick Guide handouts.



Be advised of the following policies for participating in the Congress:


You are invited to propose one paper (as a sole author or as a co-author) for one session of papers. You may propose a paper for a sponsored or special session or for the general sessions, but not both. You may propose an unlimited number of contributions to roundtables and poster sessions, but you will not be scheduled to actively participate (as paper presenter, roundtable discussant, poster author, presider, respondent, workshop leader, demonstrator or performer) in more than three sessions.


Further details on the Congress’s Policies can be found at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/policies-guidelines.



A reminder: Presenters accepted to the Congress must register for the full event. The registration fee is the same for on-site and virtual participants. For planning, the cost for the previous year’s event is posted at the Congress’s Registration page at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/registration.


If necessary, the Medieval Institute and Richard Rawlinson Center at Western Michigan University offer limited funding to presenters. These include both subsidized registration grants and travel awards. Please see the Awards page at the Congress site for details at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/awards.



For more information about the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain, please see our website at https://kingarthurforever.blogspot.com/. For more information on the International Arthurian Society, North American Branch (IAS/NAB), please see our website at https://www.international-arthurian-society-nab.org/, and do consider becoming a member of the society.

CFP Teaching the Arthurian Tradition(s) (11/1/2024; IMA Symposium 1/17/2024)

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition(s)

deadline for submissions:
November 1, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Illinois Medieval Association

contact email:
mwgeorge.51@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/02/teaching-the-arthurian-traditions

Deadline for Proposals: November 1

Session: 2:00 pm (Central) January 17, online via Zoom

The Arthurian Tradition(s) is often most students’ first and only exposure to the Middle Ages. Exposure often comes from films that students have seen: Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004), Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), and Lowery’s Green Knight (2021). What students learn from a course or unit on the Arthurian Tradition(s) is often very different from filmed depictions. This session seeks papers that explore issues, opportunities, and innovations in teaching the Arthurian Traditions(s).

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than November 1, 2024.



Last updated August 8, 2024

Out Now Arthuriana for Summer 2024

The latest number of Arthuriana was released this month. Access can be purchased from their website. You can also view the issue at Project MUSE if you have a subscription to the repository.

Table of Contents 

(34.2)

Sister’s Son: Aspects of Mordred and the Avunculate in La Morte le Roi Artu and the Stanzaic Morte Arthur

Jessika Brandon 

Representing Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Michael Eden 

Tweaking the Tradition: Gawain as Perceval in David Lowery’s The Green Knight

Mark Rasmussen 

Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Vita Merlini as Trauma Narrative

Karen Winstead      

In Memoriam: Dan Nastali

Phillip C. Boardman                                                                                                                                                                                                       

REVIEWS

Lindy Brady, The Origin Legends of Early Medieval Britain

Helen Fulton 

Jo Ann Cavallo, The Sicilian Puppet Theater of Agrippino Monteo (1184–1947): The Paladins of France in America

Joseph Farrell 

Kathy Cawsey and Elizabeth Edwards, eds., The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature

Alan Lupack 

Melissa Ridley Elmes and Evelyn Meyer, eds., Ethics in the Arthurian Legend

Kenneth Hodges 

Roberta L. Krueger, The New Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance

Usha Vishnuvajjala 

Cecilia Lampp Linton, The Knight who Gave us King Arthur: Sir Thomas Malory, Knight Hospitaller

P.J.C. Field 

J.P.T. Slevin, ed., and L. Lockyer, trans., The History of Alfred of Beverley

Jacqueline M. Burek 

New from D S Brewer - Arthurian Literature 39 for 2024

Arthurian Literature XXXIX: A Celebration of Elizabeth Archibald

Edited by Megan G Leitch and Kevin S Whetter

Full details, preview, and ordering information at https://boydellandbrewer.com/9781843847182/arthurian-literature-xxxix/.

TITLE DETAILS

190 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

Series: Arthurian Literature

Series Vol. Number: 39

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

Hardcover

9781843847182

June 2024

£70.00 / $115.00 

(ebook also available)

DESCRIPTION

"Delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues." TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

This volume is a special issue dedicated to Professor Elizabeth Archibald, who has had such an impact on, and made so many significant contributions to, the field of Arthurian Studies. It maintains its tradition of diverse approaches to the Arthurian tradition - albeit on this occasion with a particular focus on Malory, appropriately reflecting one of Professor Archibald's main interests.

It starts with the essay awarded this year's D.S. Brewer Prize for a contribution by an early career scholar, which considers the little-known debt owed by early modern sailors to Arthurian knighthood and pageantry. The essays that follow begin with a wide-ranging account of manuscript decorations and annotations in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia, before turning to the Evil Custom trope in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Further contributions explore the formalities of requests and conditions in Malory's '"Tale of Gareth", emotional excess and magical transformation in several scenes across the Morte Darthur, tensions between public and private and self and identity in Malory's "Sankgreal", and friction between the (external and imposed) law and (internal and subjective but honourable) code of chivalry, especially apparent in Malory's final Tales. The last article examines the ways in which Mordred's origins in modern Arthurian fiction build on Malory's false, or forgotten, promise to relate Mordred's upbringing. The volume closes with a short tribute to Elizabeth Archibald, highlighting her leadership in the field and her encouragement of scholarly collaboration and community.

CONTENTS

1. The Derek Brewer Essay Prize: Playing Arthur: Making the Elizabethan Mariner - Felicity Brown

2. Ignoring Arthur: Patterns of (In)Attention in Manuscripts of Latin Histories - Siân Echard

3. 'Þe place þat ȝe prece to ful perelous is halden': The Evil Custom in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - David F. Johnson

4. 'aske bettyr, I counseyle the': Requests, Conditions, and Consent in Malory's 'Sir Gareth of Orkney' - Hannah Piercy

5. Supernatural Transformation in Malory's Le Morte Darthur - Natalie Jayne Goodison

6. Personal Piety and 'semyng outeward': Self and Identity in Thomas Malory's 'Tale of the Sankgreal' - Martha Claire Baldon

7. Evil Will and Shameful Death: Revisiting Law in Malory's Morte Darthur - Elizabeth Edwards

8. The Return of the Return of Mordred - Cory James Rushton