Arthuriana Winter 2023

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Arthuriana 33.4 

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Guenevere’s Raptus-Sanctus Triumphs in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur 

D. Thomas Hanks, Jr. 

Abstract:

Generally speaking, scholars of Malory's Morte Darthur have given Guenevere bad press. Terms like 'shrew' and 'virago' have been often applied, while her agency has been largely ignored or minimized. Recently, however, scholars have begun to reconsider her characterization and even her agency. Analysis of her response to Meleagant's attempted raptus, however, has been minimal; likewise minimal has been discussion of her response to Lancelot both with respect to Meleagant and to Lancelot's late and apparently marital desire. Both men become wholly subject to Guenevere's subtle but masterful agency. [DTH, Jr,]

Dramatic Spectacle in LaƷamon: The Brut’s Direct Speeches, Aestheticized Violence, and Gendered Historical Reenactments 

Johanna Alden

Abstract:

This article explores the phenomena of dramatized direct speech and public performative spectacle within LaƷamon's Brut. In examining the text's largely historically unexplored dramatic dimensions, the piece also engages with the way that speech and performance are politicized and gendered in the Brut.

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Heather Blurton and Dwight F. Reynolds, eds., Bestsellers and Masterpieces: The Changing Medieval Canon 

Katherine Oswald 

Andrew Breeze, The Historical Arthur and the Gawain Poet: Studies on Arthurian and Other Traditions

Richard Firth Green 

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Susan Aronstein and Laurie Finke 

Carolyne Larrington, The Norse Myths That Shape the Way We Think

Tim William Machan 

Tim William Machan, English Begins at Jamestown

Kevin J. Harty

John Matthews, The Great Book of King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table:  A New Morte D’Arthur 

Alan Lupack 

Charlie Samuelson, Courtly and Queer: Deconstruction, Desire, and Medieval French Literature 

Megan Moore 

Eva Von Contzen and James Simpson, eds., Enlistment: Lists in Medieval and Early Modern Literature

Michael Van Dussen  

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Is Ugliness Only Skin Deep?: Middle English Gawain Romances and the ‘Wife of Bath’s Tale’ 3

Glenn A. Steinberg



Another Version of the Truth: Treachery, Testimony, and Triumph in the Old French Lay of Tyolet 29

Tamara Bentley Caudill



‘But That’s Another Story’: Wace, La3amon, and the Early Anonymous Old French Verse Bruts 47

Jean Blacker



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THE ROUND TABLE:

News and Notes From the North American Branch 103

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REVIEWS

Bettina Bildhauer, Medieval Things: Agency, Materiality, and Narratives of Objects in Medieval German Literature and Beyond 106

Will Hasty



Adrienne Williams Boyarin, The Christian Jew and the Unmarked Jewess: The Polemics of Sameness in Medieval English Anti-Judaism 107

Heather Blurton



Nigel Harris, The Thirteenth-Century Animal Turn: Medieval and Twenty-First Century Perspectives 108

Karl Steel



Alan V. Murray and Karen Watts, eds., The Medieval Tournament as Spectacle: Tourneys, Jousts, and Pas d’Armes, 1100–1600 110

Jo Conde De Lindquist



Karl Steel, How Not to Make a Human: Feral Children, Worms, Sky Burial, Oysters 113

Jamie C. Fumo



Arvind Thomas, Piers Plowman and the Reinvention of Church Law in the Late Middle Ages 115

Laura Godfrey



Diane Watt, Women, Writing and Religion in England and Beyond, 650–1100 116

Beth Whalley

CFP Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Brut (9/15/21; ICMS 2022)

Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Brut-ICMS 2022

deadline for submissions: 

September 15, 2021

full name / name of organization: 

International Lawman's Brut Society

contact email: 

kjt9t@uvawise.edu

Source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/07/12/interdisciplinary-approaches-to-the-brut-icms-2022

This session calls for papers that explore ways to incorporate the Brut—Layamon’s Brut and its analogues—into interdisciplinary studies, seeking to situate the Brut in a broader academic and pedagogical context.  How can the Brut, a text that has traditionally defied categorization, provide a way to introduce the interdisciplinary nature of medieval studies?  How might different disciplinary approaches broaden the appeal of a medieval historical poem to twenty-first century students and readers?  The session encourages proposals on teaching the Brut as part of an interdisciplinary curriculum.  We welcome studies that combine traditional academic disciplines, such as history, literature, and art, but we also look for papers that approach the Brut from new perspectives, including, for instance, media and popular culture studies.  

Please submit proposals (250-300 word) to the ICMS submissions website (https://icms.confex.com/icms/2022am/cfp.cgi) by September 15.

Please direct any questions to:

Kenneth Tiller

Professor of English

University of Virginia-Wise

kjt9t@uvawise.edu

cfp Language, Space, and Place in the Brut (9/15/21; ICMS 2022)

Language, Space, and Place in the Brut-ICMS 2022

deadline for submissions: 

September 15, 2021

full name / name of organization: 

International Lawman's Brut Society

contact email: 

kjt9t@uvawise.edu

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2021/07/12/language-space-and-place-in-the-brut-icms-2022

Scholarship on the Brut has begun to reexamine the role of space and place in the text’s presentation and readers’ reception of insular history.  The Brut texts provide fertile grounds for such discussions, as much of the legendary history documented in the Brut involves reshaping and redefining insular territory, including descriptions of the island and its wonders, the construction of cities and castles, the renaming of places and cities by rulers and conquerors, among others.  This session seeks proposals that further the critical conversation about territorial and textual space and its relation to language in the Brut and in its analogues.  We are particularly interested in proposals that examine ways the Brut texts engage medieval concepts of space and place: how is space defined, perceived, and navigated in the Brut?  How does Layamon’s own sense of place or space inform his identity?  Possible topics include: local space in the Brut, boundaries and territorial limits, text as space, Layamon in his West-Midlands context. 

Please submit proposals (250-300 word) to the ICMS submissions website (https://icms.confex.com/icms/2022am/cfp.cgi) by September 15.

Please direct any questions to:

Kenneth Tiller

Professor of English

University of Virginia-Wise

kjt9t@uvawise.edu