Arthuriana Summer 2025 Out Now (and Open-Access)

The latest number of Arthuriana, volume 35, number 2, for Summer 2025, is now available and can be read for free as open-access content from Project MUSE at https://muse.jhu.edu/issue/55177. 

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Sensory Reading Practices: Touching the Pages of Manchester, John Rylands Library MS French 1

Martha Claire Baldon                                                                                                                           

Sound, Song, and Silence in Le Conte du Papegau

Juliana M. Chapman

Mother-Quest: Maternal Remembrance and the Holy Grail in Chrétien de Troyes and Nicola Griffith

Brian J. Sheerin

Courtly Lovers and Bad Mothers: Foreign Queens in the Auchinleck Of Arthour and Of Merlin

Caitlin G. Watt

REVIEWS

Heather A. Badamo, Saint George Between Empires: Image and Encounter in the Medieval East

Jonathan Good  

Toby Clements, A Good Deliverance

Kenneth Hodges

Jonathan Fruoco, ed., Unveiling the Green Knight 

Kevin J. Harty

Michael Johnston, The Middle English Book: Scribes and Readers, 1350–1500

Sebastian Sobecki  

Patrick Sims-Williams, The Medieval Welsh Englynion y Beddau

Barry J. Lewis

Notice Creating Camelots at Kalamazoo 2024

Creating Camelot(s): The Idea of Community in Arthurian Texts (Virtual)

59th International Congress on Medieval Studies (you must register to attend)

Western Michigan University (Kalamazoo, MI)

Virtual Session

Session 425: Saturday, 11 May 2024, from 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM


Co-Sponsored by Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain and

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


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


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

(This session will be recorded.)


Paper 1:

Kissing King Arthur: The Threat of Discord in Chrétien's Erec et Enide and Hartmann's Erec

Jennifer Schmitt Carnell, Hill Museum and Manuscript Library 

Dr. Jennifer Carnell (she/her) earned her doctorate last year at the University of Minnesota in the Twin Cities. She then began working for the Hill Museum and Manuscript Library near St. Cloud, Minnesota, where she is updating their catalog of microfilms of Western medieval manuscripts housed in German libraries. Jenn’s dissertation is a close reading of the role of communal expressions of joy in medieval German literature, and today’s presentation has been developed from one of the chapters.

Paper 2:

Worship and Noyse: Chivalric Identity and the Formation of Emotional Communities in Malory's Morte Darthur

Victoria E Dikeman, Ohio State Univ. 

Victoria Dikeman (she/her) is a PhD candidate at The Ohio State University. Her research focuses on Arthurian literature. Currently, she is completing her dissertation on reputation and gossip in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur.

Paper 3:

The Broadway 2023 Camelot Revival: A Hollow Retelling of the Legend?

Hope E Koonin, Independent Scholar 

Hope Koonin is an independent scholar. She graduated in 2023 from UC Davis with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She is interested in the study and history of fantasy literature.

JIAS 2023

The latest volume of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society. Access is available for purchase from the publisher. 

Journal of the International Arthurian Society

Volume 11 Issue 1

September 2023

Publicly Available September 7, 2023

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‘Que nus contes de ce n’amende’: Chrétien de Troyes and the assertion of copyright
Keith Busby, Leah Tether
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Arthurian intertexts: Le Roman de Laurin, the First Continuation of Perceval and the Prose Tristan
Corin Corley
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Acheflour and Blauncheflour: Mothers and Wives in Sir Percyvell of Galles and Sir Tristrem
Aude Martin
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Petrine Failings and Broken Pentangles: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’s Chivalric Felix Culpa
Arielle McKee
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Eric fighting in Guatemala. Adaptation and proximation of medieval Arthurian literature in Manuel Vázquez Montalbán’s Erec y Enide
Carlos Sanz Mingo
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Von den nahtweiden. Mythologische Subtexte in der Crône Heinrichs von dem Türlin
Christoph Schanze
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The Transmedial Knights of the Round Table: Character-Based Worldbuilding in the Manuscripts of Chrétien de Troyes
Caitlin G. Watt
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Mary Dewey (1947–2023)
Linda Gowans, Alison Rawles
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Gilles Eckard (1949–2022)
Alain Corbellari
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Amanda Hopkins (1962–2022)
Emma Campbell
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Freda Humble (1922–2022)
Sue Bennett, Linda Gowans
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Ian Lovecy (1947–2022)
P. J. C. Field
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Roger Simpson (1938–2022)
Alan Lupack, Barbara Tepa Lupack, Kevin J. Harty
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Notices

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XXVIIth International Arthurian Congress, Aix-en-Provence, France, 11–18 July 2024
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Biennial JIAS Essay Prize Competition 2024–25
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Arthuriana Spring 2022 Just Released

Arthuriana 32.1 was just released

 Here are the contents from their website: https://www.arthuriana.com/321.

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In Memoriam: Fiona Tolhurst 3

K.S. Whetter



Chrétien and the Seven Dwarfs: The Portrayal of Dwarf Characters in the Earliest Arthurian Romances 7

Matthew B. Diem



Anything You Can Do: Gawain, Lancelot, and Failure in Malory's Le Morte Darthur 35

Danielle Taylor



Rewriting a Demon: Merlin’s Changing Characterization in Three Versions of Of Arthour and Of Merlin 55

Kathryn M.M. Walton



Winner of the Fair Unknown Award 82

The King, the Giant, and Time:

Temporality in the Encounter at Mont Saint Michel in the Alliterative Morte Arthure

Robyn Thum-O'Brien



REVIEWS

Lucy M. Allen-Goss, Female Desire in Chaucer’s Legend of Good Womenand Middle English Romance 95

Holly A. Crocker



Stephen Knight,Medieval Literature and Social Politics: Studies of Culturesand Their Contexts 96

Thomas H. Ohlgren



Sophia Lodén, French Romance, Medieval Sweden and the Europeanisation of Culture 99

Joseph M. Sullivan



Daniel C. Remein and Erica Weaver eds.,Dating Beowulf: Studies in Intimacy 101

Jordan Zweck



Eric Weiskott, Meter and Modernity in English Verse, 1350-1650 103

Nicholas Myklebust

Update AL 30

Just posted online, here are the contents' details for Arthurian Literature 30 (see previous post). Author match-ups (when possible) are provided based on Google searches. Further updates will be provided as they become available.

Arthurian Literature XXX 
Edited by Elizabeth Archibald
Edited by David F. Johnson

Details
First Published: 19 Dec 2013
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843843627
Pages: 176
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Arthurian Literature
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB

Details updated on 03 Aug 2013

Contributors: Richard W. Barber; Nigel Bryant; Aisling Byrne; Carol J. Chase; Siân Echard; Helen Fulton; Michael Twomey; Patricia Victorin.

Contents

1 Magic and the Supernatural in Early Welsh Arthurian Narrative: Culhwch ac Olwen and Breuddwyd Rhonabwy (Helen Fulton)

2 How Green was the Green Knight? Forest Ecology at Hautdesert (Michael Twomey)

3 Edward III's Arthurian Enthusiasms Revisited: Perceforest in the Context of Philippa of Hainault and the Round Table Feast of 1344 (Richard W. Barber)

4 Pagan Gods and the Coming of Christianity in Perceforest (Nigel Bryant)

5 Malory's Sources for the Tale of the Sankgreal: Some Overlooked Evidence from the Irish Lorgaireacht an Tsoidigh Naomhtha

6 'Transmuer de rime en prose': The Transformation of Chrétien de Troyes's Joie de la Cour episode in the Burgundian Prose Erec [1450-60]

7 La Rétro-écriture ou l'écriture de la nostalgie dans le roman arthurien tardif: Ysaïe le Triste, Le Conte du Papegau et Mélyador de Froissart

8 Remembering Brutus: Aaron Thompson's British History of 1718