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.

Arthuriana for Winter 2019

I missed this earlier in the year, but here are the contents for the Winter 2019 number of Arthuriana.

Details are based on the list from the journal's website.

 

Table of Contents
(29.4)

Introduction: Performing Emotions in the Arthurian World
Raluca L. Radulescu	3
The Performative Function of the Socialized Body: Falling to One’s Knees in Hartmann’s Iwein and Erec
Chloé Vondenhoff	8
‘Al was hi sward, wat scaetde dat?’: Emotions and Courtly Cultural Exchange in the Roman van Moriaen
Frank Brandsma	28
Evadeam, Gawain, Merlin: Penitential Transformation and Unseen Truth in the ‘Dwarf Knight’ Section of the Vulgate Cycle
Mikayla Hunter	44
Extreme Emotions: Sir Gawain and the Carl of Carlisle and the Danger from Within
Raluca L. Radulescu	57
In Memoriam: Necrology for Dhira Mahoney
Anita Obermeier and Georgiana Donavin	74
REVIEWS
Ian Cornelius, Reconstructing Alliterative Verse: The Pursuit of a Medieval Meter
Andrew Galloway	76
Miriam Edlich-Muth, ed., Medieval Romances Across European Borders
Leah Haught	78
Sara Harris, The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain
Scott Gwara	80
Geoffrey Russom, The Evolution of Verse Structure in Old and Middle English Poetry: From the Earliest Alliterative Poems to Iambic Pentameter
Ian Cornelius	82
Judith Shoaf, ed. and trans., The Quest of the Holy Grail
Ann McCullough	85
Alison Stones, Studies in Arthurian Illustration
Alan Lupack	86