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 

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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 

Out Now - Roman de Brut in Oxford Worlds Classics Edition

Roman de Brut

Wace
Translated by Glyn S. Burgess and with an Introduction and Notes by Jean Blacker

Full details from the publisher's website at https://global.oup.com/academic/product/roman-de-brut-9780192871268.

Paperback

Published: 11 April 2024

320 Pages

7.7 x 5.1 inches

ISBN: 9780192871268

Oxford World's Classics

A new translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, a poem which served as a gateway to the larger traditions of Arthurian literature and historical writing in the French and English vernaculars

Provides an easily accessible English prose translation of the first complete Old French adaptation (1155) of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1130-40), in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons

Accompanied by extensive critical apparatus, including a summary of the text, a glossary, a list of manuscripts, and an index of personal and geographical names

Description

'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.'

Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to the history of the Britons for both French and English speakers of the time, and thus to Arthurian history, as the first complete Old French adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain (late 1130s), in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons. The Roman de Brut was a foundational work, an inspiration for a series of anonymous verse Bruts of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries and for the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut -- the most widely read French vernacular text on this material in medieval England -- as well as a forerunner of the Middle English Brut tradition, including Layamon's Brut (c. 1200). Wace's poem thus inaugurates and shapes Brut traditions, including Arthurian tales, in verse and in prose, in historiography and in literature, including Wace's innovation of King Arthur's Round Table.

This volume contains an English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, accompanied by an introduction and notes, a select bibliography, a summary of the text, a list of manuscripts, and indexes of personal and geographical names.

Author Information

Glyn S. Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He has translated the three twelfth-century romances of antiquity and the Roman de Rou of Wace (2002). In 1990 he was made a Chevalier des Palmes Académiques and he is an honorary President of the International Courtly Literature Society. His most recent books are Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages (2016; with Leslie C. Brook), The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (2017; with Douglas Kelly), and The Roman de Thèbes and the Roman d'Eneas (2021; with Douglas Kelly).

Jean Blacker is Emeritus Professor of French, Kenyon College. Her more recent publications include Wace, The Hagiographical Works: The Conception Nostre Dame and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas (2013), with Glyn S. Burgess, and Amy V. Ogden, Court and Cloister: Essays in the Short Narrative in Honor of Glyn S. Burgess (2018), with Jane H. M. Taylor. Her work focuses on the protean uses of King Arthur in Anglo-Norman, Continental French, and Latin historiography of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, focusing on the interconnections between foundation myths, competing claims of identity, and cultural imperialism in the legendary history of Britain.

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