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 

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

Arthuriana for Spring 2019 Out Now

Arthuriana Vol. 29, No. 1 for Spring 2019 is now available to subscribers and on Project MUSE. The contents are as follows. The main section is a special issue on "Malorian and Scholarly Retraction.

INTRODUCTION
‘But rather I wolde sey: here in thys worlde he chaunged hys lyff ’: Malorian and Scholarly Retraction
Karen Cherewatuk and Meg Roland

Retraction and the Making of Arthurian Texts
Michael W. Twomey

Malory’s Lancelot: Not ‘Either/Or’ but ‘Both/And’
Karen Cherewatuk

‘But that was but favour of makers’: Retractions, Editions, and Authorship in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
Meg Roland

Malory’s Political Views: My Final Retraction
Edward Donald Kennedy

Memory and Losing One’s Head in Malory’s Morte Darthur
Catherine Batt

Mordred’s Lost Childhood
Elizabeth Archibald

Memories of War: Retracting the Interpretive Tradition of the Alliterative Morte Arthure
Fiona Tolhurst and K.S. Whetter

Malory’s Death Poem
Thomas H. Crofts


*Winner of the ‘Fair Unknown’ Award*
‘And there she lete make herself a nunne’: Guinevere’s Afterlife as a Nun in British Culture of the Mid-Nineteenth to Early Twentieth Century
Ellie Crookes


The Round Table: News from the IAS-NAB



REVIEWS

Laura Chuhan Campbell, The Medieval Merlin Tradition in France and Italy: Prophecy, Paradox, and Translatio
Florence Marsal

Katherine Barnes Echols, King Arthur and Robin Hood on the Radio: Adaptations for American Listeners
Dan Nastali

Joshua Byron Smith, Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
Elizabeth M. Willingham

Leah Tether, Publishing the Grail in Medieval and Renaissance France
Leona Archer

Raymond H. Thompson, The Swan Maiden
Norris J. Lacy

May Day

Today is May 1st, May Day, and the birthday of Mordred according to tradition.

I believe he is the only character whose date of birth we know.

Hebert's New Book on Morgan le Fay

Just released (a revision of the author's 2008 dissertation). Looks like a fairly comprehensive study:

Morgan le Fay, Shapeshifter (Studies in Arthurian and Courtly Cultures)

Jill M. Hebert

Palgrave Macmillan, March 2013
ISBN: 978-1-137-02264-6, ISBN10: 1-137-02264-7
5.500 x 8.500 inches
240 pages
Hardcover $85.00


This study re-examines the appearances and absences of Morgan le Fay in early medieval through contemporary Arthurian sources, arguing that she illustrates the concerns of each era even as she continually evades and confounds social and gender expectations. Morgan's ambiguous nature transcends archetypes and limited definitions as she challenges traditional ideas of femininity, monstrousness, resistance, identity and social expectations for women and men alike.


Contents:

Introduction: To be a Shapeshifter
1. For the Healing of His Wounds? The Seeds of Ambiguity in Latin Sources
2. Sisters of the Forest: Morgan and Her Analogues in Arthurian Romance
3. Morgan in Malory
4. Morgan's Presence-in-Absence in Renaissance, Romantic, and Victorian Works
5. Imprisoned by Ideology: Modern and Fantasy Portrayals
Conclusion: Beyond Limits

Praise:

"Hebert's book will have widespread interest, especially for advanced undergraduates and graduate students majoring in literature and/or women's studies, art history, and media studies. It will serve as a resource for Hebert's analysis and judgments regarding various works and also as a model of one scholarly way to examine a magnetic character - Morgan le Fay - over several centuries of primary works and through various historical, philological, and myth-centered approaches as well as various genres." - Sue Ellen Holbrook, Professor of English, Southern Connecticut State University


Jill M. Hebert is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Saint Mary, USA.

Arthurian Heroes and Villains

Heroes and Anti-Heroes in Medieval Romance
Edited by Neil Cartlidge

Details

First Published: 19 Apr 2012

$90.00
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843843047
Pages: 244
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Studies in Medieval Romance
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB
Details updated on 27 Nov 2011


Medieval romances so insistently celebrate the triumphs of heroes and the discomfiture of villains that they discourage recognition of just how morally ambiguous, antisocial or even downright sinister their protagonists can be, and, correspondingly, of just how admirable or impressive their defeated opponents often are. This tension between the heroic and the antiheroic makes a major contribution to the dramatic complexity of medieval romance, but it is not an aspect of the genre that has been frequently discussed up. Focusing on fourteen distinct characters and character-types in medieval narrative, this book attempts to illustrate the range of different ways in which the imaginative power and appeal of romance-texts often depends on contradictions implicit in the very ideal of heroism.

Dr Neil Cartlidge is Lecturer in English at the University of Durham.

Contributors: Neil Cartlidge, Penny Eley, David Ashurst, Meg Lamont, Laura Ashe, Judith Weiss, Gareth Griffith, Kate McClune, Nancy Mason Bradbury, Ad Putter, Robert Rouse, Siobhain Bly Calkin, James Wade, Stephanie Vierick Gibbs Kamath


Contents
1 Introduction
2 Turnus
3 Alexander the Great
4 Hengist
5 Harold Godwineson
6 Mordred
7 Merlin
8 Gawain
9 Gamelyn
10 Ralph the Collier
11 The Antiheroic Heart
12 Crusaders
13 Saracens
14 Ungallant Knights
15 Sons of Devils