Arthuriana Spring 2025 Now Available and Open Access

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This is a special "crossover" issue with the journal's Public Humanities Project, The So What, and guest edited by Jonathan F. Correa Reyes. 

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Medieval Studies as a Public Good

Jonathan F. Correa Reyes                                                                                                                               

Couverture: Transing the Medieval Manuscript

Christopher T. Richards

Love and Tales: A Bridge Between the Heart and Culture

Mario Martín Páez

De Amore, Game of Thrones, and Imagining Violence in the Twelfth and Twenty-First Centuries

Elizabeth Liendo

Concocting a Seat at the Roundtable: Arthurian Legend, Historical Genealogy, and the Making of Empire in Tudor and Stuart England

Alexander Lowe Mcadams

From Chile to Camelot: Reception of the Arthurian Arc of Mampato and Ogú

Jonathan F. Correa Reyes and Camila Gutiérrez

Medievalism and (White) Nationalism: From Ossian to Today

Vanessa K. Iacocca 

Unexpected Swords in the Stone

Brenna Duperron

Winner of the 2024 ‘Fair Unknown’ Award

Worshyp and Noyse: Emotional Communities and Chivalric Identity in Malory’s Morte Darthur

Victoria E. Dikeman

The Round Table: News from the North American Branch

REVIEWS

Mary Bateman, Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales 1400–1700

Dwayne C. Coleman  

Eleanor Johnson, Waste and the Wasters: Poetry and Ecosystemic Thought in Medieval England

Andrew M. Richmond

Michel Pastoureau, Dernière visite chez le Roi Arthur. Histoire d’un premier livre

Richard Utz

Tison Pugh, Bad Chaucer: The Great Poet’s Greatest Mistakes in the Canterbury Tales

Alex Mueller  

Usha Vishnuvajjala, Feminist Medievalism: Embodiment and Vulnerability in Literature and Film

Virginia Blanton  

John Withrington, ed., The Arthurian Texts of the Percy Folio

Theresa M. Kenney

Arthuriana Summer 2025 Out Now (and Open-Access)

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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

Now Out in Paperback - The Arthurian World

I'm excited to see this is now in paperback. Full details and ordering information at https://www.routledge.com/The-Arthurian-World/Coldham-Fussell-Edlich-Muth-Ward/p/book/9781032186320. 

The Arthurian World

Edited By Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Miriam Edlich-Muth, Renée Ward

Copyright 2022

Paperback - $47.99

Hardback - $240.00

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ISBN 9781032186320

602 Pages 28 B/W Illustrations

Paperback published April 14, 2025 by Routledge

Description

This collection provides an innovative and wide-ranging introduction to the world of Arthur by looking beyond the canonical texts and themes, taking instead a transversal perspective on the Arthurian narrative. Together, its thirty-four chapters explore the continuities that make the material recognizable from one century to another, as well as transformations specific to particular times and places, revealing the astonishing variety of adaptations that have made the Arthurian story popular in large parts of the world.

Divided into four parts—The World of Arthur in the British Isles, The European World of Arthur, The Material World of Arthur, and The Transversal World of Arthur — the volume tracks the legend’s movement across temporal, geographical, and material boundaries. Broadly chronological, each part views the unfolding Arthurian story through its own lens, while temporal and geographical overlaps between the sections underscore the proximity of these developments in the legend’s history.

Ranging from early Latin chronicles and Welsh poetry to twenty-first century anime and political conspiracies, this comprehensive and illuminating book will be of interest to anyone researching Arthurian literature or tracing the evolution of medievalism through literature, the visual arts, and popular culture.

Contents

Introduction

PART I: The World of Arthur in the British Isles

1 King Arthur: Hero or Legend?

P. J. C. Field

2 The Invention of Arthurian Britain: Arthur in the Early Welsh Literary Tradition

Helen Fulton

3 Arthur Among the Nine Worthies

Audrey Martin and David Mason

4 Prophecy and Place in the Arthurian Tradition

Victoria Flood

5 Spenser, Malory, and Regionalism in Arthurian Literature

Kenneth Hodges

6 The Post-medieval Arthur at War

Andrew Lynch

7 The Arthurian Legends in the Sixteenth Century: The Misfortunes of Arthur and The Faerie Queene

Andrew Hadfield

8 "what’s past is prologue" – Early Modern Explorations of Arthurian Romance and Shakespeare’s The Tempest

Claudia Olk

9 Victorian Medievalisms: Rehabilitating Arthur in Eleonora Louisa Hervey’s The Feasts of Camelot

Renée Ward

10 Staging Guenevere’s Maternity in Richard Hovey’s The Marriage of Guenevere and The Birth of Galahad

Virginia Blanton

PART II: The European World of Arthur

11 The Byelorussian Tristan

Milica Spremić Končar

12 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Irish Arthurian Romances

Bernadette Smelik

13 No Country for Young Men: The Challenge of the Medieval Greek Old Knight

Thomas H. Crofts

14 A Not-So-Unique Text: Melekh Artus and Medieval Jewish Arthurian Romance

Caroline Gruenbaum

15 Viduvilt: The Yiddish World of Arthur

Annegret Oehme

16 No Knights, No England, No Arthur: Arthurian Theater in Fifteenth- and Sixteenth-Century Germany

Cora Dietl

17 Guiron le Courtois Across Borders: The Life of a Prose Narrative Cycle

Nicola Morato

18 Optical Illusion, Illusory Objects, and the Quest of the Holy Grail in the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal and Perlesvaus

Martha Baldon

PART III: The Material World of Arthur

19 Making and Illustrating Arthurian Manuscripts

Alison Stones

20 Sir Palamedes the Indelibly "Saracen" Knight: Heraldry, Monstrosity, and Race in Fifteenth-Century Arthurian Romance Manuscripts

Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan

21 Minding the Gaps: Topology and Gender in the Remediation of Medieval German Arthurian Romance

Alexandra Sterling-Hellenbrand

22 Arthurian Imagination in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century British Art

Peter N. Lindfield

23 Finding Arthur in the Percy Folio

Katie Garner

24 A History of Malory’s Morte Darthur in Print

James Wade

25 A Grave Discovery? Guinevere’s Death and Burial at Amesbury in Medieval and Early Modern Tradition

Mary Bateman

PART IV: The Transversal World of Arthur

26 The Arthurian Legends in America

Alan Lupack

27 In the Ancient Days of Sagas: Astrid Lindgren and the Legacy of Arthurian Romance

Sofia Lodén

28 "Hail to the king[s], baby": Arthur vs Army of Darkness

Jeff Massey and Tabitha Ochtera

29 Arthur in Modern Fantasy Literature

Shiloh Carroll

30 Cinema Arthuriana and the Knights of the Not-So-Round Table

Kevin J. Harty

31 The Grail is in Another Castle: The World of Arthur in Digital Games

Alicia McKenzie

32 Desire and the Flexible Grail: The Japanese Fate Franchise and Evolving Notions of Arthurian Power

E. L. Risden

33 "Moor" and "Saracen" in Medieval and Contemporary Arthurian Texts

Kris Swank

34 Guy Ritchie, King Arthur, and the Great Conspiracy

Andrew B. R. Elliot

About the Editors

Victoria Coldham-Fussell is a Research Ethics Adviser for Victoria University of Wellington—Te Herenga Waka. Her research focuses on renaissance humor and the work of Edmund Spenser. She is the author of Comic Spenser: Faith, Folly, and The Faerie Queene (2020), co-author of the Oxford Bibliographies article 'Edmund Spenser' (2017), and contributor to Conversātiō—In the Company of Bees (2021).

Miriam Edlich-Muth holds the Chair of Medieval English and Historical Linguistics at the University of Düsseldorf, Germany.

Renée Ward is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature at the University of Lincoln, UK, and co-editor of The Year’s Work in Medievalism.

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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/.

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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 

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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

Recent from D S Brewer - Arthurian Literature 38 for 2023

Arthurian Literature XXXVIII

Edited by Kevin S Whetter and Megan G Leitch

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342 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

3 b/w

Series: Arthurian Literature

Series Vol. Number: 38

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

Hardcover

9781843846475

April 2023

£75.00 / $115.00 

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DESCRIPTION

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

This issue offers stimulating studies of a wide range of Arthurian texts and authors, from the Middle Ages to the nineteenth century, among which is the first winner of the Derek Brewer Essay Prize, awarded to a fascinating exploration of Ragnelle's strangeness in The Weddyng of Syr Gawen and Dame Ragnelle. It includes an exploration of Irish and Welsh cognates and possible sources for Merlin; Bakhtinian analysis of Geoffrey of Monmouth's playful discourse; and an account of the transmission of Geoffrey's text into Old Icelandic. In the Middle English tradition, there is an investigation of material Arthuriana in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, followed by explorations of shame in Malory's Morte Darthur. The post-medieval articles see one paper devoted to the paratexts of sixteenth-century French Arthurian publishers; one to eighteenth-century Arthuriana; and one to a range of nineteenth-century rewritings of the virginity of Galahad and Percival's Sister. Two Notes close this volume: one on Geoffrey's Vita Merlini and a possible Irish source, and one on a likely source for Malory's linking of Trystram with the Book of Hunting and Hawking in an early form of The Book of St Albans.

CONTENTS

1. Animals at the Feast: Strange Strangers and Courtly Power in The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle - C. M. Palmer

2. The Kindred of a Boy without a Father: Merlin's British Forebears and Irish Cousins -John Carey

3. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Subtle Subversion: Active Double-Voiced Discourse in the Historia regum Britanniae - Vanessa K. Iacocca

4. 'Cornwall, up in the North': Geography and Place Names in the Source of the Old Icelandic Brut - Hélène Tétrel

5. Enacting Arthurianism in the Order of the Garter and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' - Matt Clancy

6. Deviants and Dissenters: Theorizing Shame and Punishment in Malory's Morte - Richard Sévère

7. Loyalty and Worshyp in Conflict in Malory's Lancelot - Manabu Agari

8. Emotional Inheritance in Malory's Morte Darthur: Shame and the Lott-Pellinore Feud - Karen Cherewatuk

9. Navigating and Indexing Arthurian Romance in Benoît Rigaud's Edition of Lancelot du Lake (1591) - Jane H. M. Taylor and Leah Tether

10. 'A great many strange puppets': Queen Caroline, Merlin's Cave, and Symbolic Arthurianism in the Age of Reason - Amy Louise Blaney

11. 'How Galahad Regained his Virginity: Dead Women, Catholicism, and the Grail in Nineteenth-Century British Poetry' - Kenneth Hodges

12. 'Merlin's Woodland House: Irish Cosmology in the Vita Merlini?' - Jennifer Lopatin and A. Joseph McMullen

13. Malory and the Book of St Albans - P. J. C. Field

Catching Up - Arthurian Literature 35 for 2020

Arthurian Literature XXXV

Edited by Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson

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227 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

5 b/w illus.

Series: Arthurian Literature

Series Vol. Number: 35

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

Hardcover

9781843845454

June 2020

$115.00 / £75.00 (also available as an ebook)

DESCRIPTION

The continued influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are demonstrated by the articles collected in this volume.

The rich vitality of both the Arthurian material itself and the scholarship devoted to it is manifested in this volume. It begins with an interdisciplinary study of swords belonging to Arthurian and other heroes and of the smiths who made them, assessed both in their literary contexts and in "historical" references to their existence as heroic relics. Two essays then consider the use of Arthurian material for political purposes: a discussion of Caradog's Vita Gildae throws light on the complex attitudes to Arthur of contemporaries of Geoffrey of Monmouth in a time of political turmoil in England, and an investigation into borrowings from Geoffrey's Historia in a chronicle of Anglo-Scottish relations in the time of Edward I, a well-known admirer of the Arthurian legend, argues that they would have appealed to the clerical élite. Romance motifs link the subsequent pieces: women and their friendships in Ywain and Gawain, the only known close English adaptation of a romance by Chrétien, and the mixture of sacred and secular in The Turke and Gawain, with fascinating alchemical parallels for a puzzling beheading episode. This is followed by a discussion of the views on native and foreign sources of three sixteenth-century defenders of Arthur, John Leland, John Prise and Humphrey Llwyd, and their responses to the criticisms of Polydore Vergil. In twentieth-century reception history, John Steinbeck was an ardent Arthurian enthusiast: an essay looks at the significance of his annotations to his copy of Malory as he worked on his adaptation, The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights. The volume moves to even more recent territory with an exploration of the adaptations of Malory and other Arthurian writers that occur in the comic books by Geoff Johns about Arthur Curry, aka Aquaman, King of Atlantis. The book is completed by a reprint of a classic essay by Norris Lacy on the absence and presence of the Grail in Arthurian texts from the twelfth century on.

CONTENTS

Arthurian Swords I: Gawain's Sword and the Legend of Weland the Smith - Richard Barber

Rex rebellis et vir pacificus: Civil War and Ecclesiastical Peacekeeping in the Vita Gildae of Caradog of Llancarfan - Andrew Rabin

Once and Future History: Textual Borrowing in an Account of the First War of Scottish Independence - Christopher Michael Berard

'Me rewes sore': Women's Friendship, Affect and Loyalty in Ywain and Gawain - Usha Vishnuvajjala

The Sacred and the Secular: Alchemical Transformation in The Turke and Sir Gawain - Natalie Goodison

'The native place of that great Arthur': Foreignness and Nativity in Sixteenth-Century Defences of Arthur - Mary Bateman

John Steinbeck's 'Wonder-Words' - Elaine Treharne and William J. Fowler

The Once and Future King of Atlantis: The Arthurian Figure in Geoff Johns's Aquaman: Death of a King - Carl B. Sell

Arthur and/or the Grail - Norris J. Lacy

Arthuriana for Spring 2024

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‘Bi þat watz Gryngolet grayth and gurde with a sadel’: Characterizing Gringolet in Old French and Middle English Romances 

Marisa Mills

‘The forme to the finisment fuldes ful selden’: A Comparison of David Lowery’s Screenplay and His 2021 Film Adaptation The Green Knight 

Dennis Tredy 

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Environmental Realism in the Arthurian Forest of Adventure.

Michael W. Twomey 

ANNOUNCEMENTS

An Invitation to Consider a Potential Arthur-Figure Memorial Stone.  

Guye Pennington 

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REVIEWS

Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm, Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life 

Marie Schilling Grogan 

Gloria Allaire and Julie Human, eds., Courtly Pastimes

Tara Foster 

Jeffrey John Dixon, Encyclopedia of the Holy Grail 

Phillip C. Boardman 

Elis Gruffydd, Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts: From the Welsh Chronicle of the Six Ages of the World 

Peter H. Goodrich 

Annegret Oehme, The Knight Without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations 

Jonathan Seelye Martin 

Joseph Taylor, Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages: Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature 

Ann M. Martinez 

Marion Turner, The Wife of Bath: A Biography 

Kathleen Forni  

Christopher Vaccaro, ed., Painful Pleasures: Sadomasochism in Medieval Cultures 

 James C. Staples

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.

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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.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Launch of ‘The So What’: public-facing, digital publication focusing on the ‘whys’ and ‘so whats’ of medieval studies and pedagogy 

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REVIEWS 

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 

Tara Hernandez and Damon Lindelof, creators, Mrs. Davis, (eight-part miniseries)

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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Arthuriana 33.3 (Fall 2023)

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Special Issue: Who Gets to Be Legendary? 

Guest edited by Margaret Sheble

Introduction: Why Can’t Mermaids Be Ethnically Diverse? Legends and Legend-Making in Arthurian Studies 

Richard Sévère 

White Merlin: A Modern Misconception about the Legendary Merlin

Tzu-Yu Liu 

Abstract:

Different from the predominantly white Merlins on both big and small screens today, Merlins in medieval legends are never described as having white skin. In fact, in various texts Merlin is specifically depicted as a dark-skinned character capable of making legendary accomplishments. The few Merlins of color onscreen have informed our understanding of Merlin as a legendary character in various ways, and more diverse representations of Merlin onscreen could help to dispel the misconception that the legendary Merlin is by default white. (TL)

‘Why is he Indian?’: Missed Opportunities for Discussing Race in David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021)

Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan 

Abstract:

This article explores the depiction of Gawain in The Green Knight (2021). Despite having cast Dev Patel in the starring role, the film avoids any substantive discussion of race in Camelot. By trading in optical diversity alone, it deploys BIPOC bodies without ever telling their stories. (TDN)

Towards Narrative Plenitude: Asian Representation in Young Adult Arthurian Fantasy 

Pamela M. Yee 

Abstract:

This article examines how two authors of Asian descent tackle the problem of 'narrative scarcity' for marginalized writers in their Young Adult Arthurian texts: Williams' 'The Quay Stone' posits the relationship between colonizer/colonized as akin to domestic abuse, while Chupeco's A Hundred Names for Magic series integrates Eastern and Western myths. (PY)

Who is Asking?: Afro-Arthurian Legend-Making in N.K. Jemisin’s Far Sector 

D’Arcee Charington Neal 

Abstract:

Whether an Arthurian knight, a Green Lantern, or a Legendborn, one cannot have a legacy without first becoming a legend. In N.K. Jemisin's graphic novel Far Sector (2020) Sojourner 'Jo' Muellein's story as both community activist and guardian echoes, reinvents, and reimagines Arthurian romances through the lens of Afrofuturism; further, this fantastical remix challenges white supremacist modes of oppressive comic tradition by foregrounding racial and gendered identities. Making a legend is not about whom society has agreed to be the answer. Instead, such ideals lie with whoever asks the question. (DCN)

REVIEWS 

Victoria Coldham-Fussell, Miriam Edlich-Muth, and Renée Ward, eds., The Arthurian World

Dan Nastali 

Louise D’Arcens and Andrew Lynch, eds., International Medievalism and Popular Culture 

Kevin J. Harty 

Patrick Del Luca, Chevalerie et royauté dans le roman d’Erec de Hartmann van Aue 

Ann Mccullough 

Megan Moore, The Erotics of Grief: Emotions and the Construction of Privilege in the Medieval Mediterranean 

Charles-Louis Morand-Métiver 

Coming Soon - Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature

The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature

Edited by: Kathy Cawsey; Elizabeth Edwards

For further details and ordering information, see the publisher's site at this link.

Print Publication Date: September 15, 2023
eBook Publication Date: August 15, 2023
ISBN: 9781554815975 / 1554815975
500 pages; 7¾" x 9¼

PrintUS $49.95
Ebook will also be available for purchase upon publication.

Description

The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature offers an up-to-date and student-friendly approach to teaching the literature of the Arthurian tradition. With a team of contributing editors creating new translations of classic texts, and a distinctive balance of familiar and lesser-known Arthur legends, the anthology is an authoritative and highly teachable resource. A companion website allows for greater flexibility without expanding the print book, and helpful introductions and notes support student readers throughout the anthology.

Contents

Readings listed in green are included on the anthology’s companion website.

1. Front matter

a. Acknowledgements & Thanks
b. List of figures
c. Abbreviations
d. Timeline

2. General Introduction

3. Texts

a. Welsh poetry

i. Early Welsh texts
ii. Priddeu Annwn
b. Early Latin texts
c. Culhwch and Olwen
d. Geoffrey of Monmouth

i. Deeds of the British

Book 8

Stonehenge and the Crowning of Uther Pendragon

Uther and Igerna
The Death of Uther
Book 9

The Crowning of Arthur
Arthur fights the Saxons
Arthur marries Guinevere
Peacetime passtimes
Emperor Lucius
Book 10

Arthur’s Dream
Giant of Mont St. Michel
Various battles with Rome
Mordred’s Betrayal
Book 11

Arthur and Mordred
ii. Vita Merlini
e. Wace – Brut

i. 8565-8822: Uther and Ygerne; conception, disguise, Merlin.
ii. 9587-9798: Arthur’s court and the Round Table
iii. 9905-10104: the Conquest of France and the defeat of Frollo.
iv. 10437-10954: Arthur’s coronation to the arrival of the Roman ambassadors
v. 11173-11188: Modret’s adulterous desire for the Queen.
vi. 11239-11606: Arthur’s dream and the Giant of Mont St Michel
vii. 13010-13298: Mordred, Guinevere, and the Death of Arthur
f. Chrétien de Troyes – The Knight of the Cart
g. Marie de France

i. Lanval
ii. Chevrefoil
h. Lai of Melion
i. Béroul – Tristan

i. The Ambiguous Oath
ii. King Arthur’s Court
iii. The Malpas
j. Layamon – Brut
k. Gunnlaugr Leifsson – Merlínússpá
l. Wolfram von Eschenbach – Parzival
m. Lancelot-Grail cycle

Lancelot

i. Lancelot’s arrival at court
ii. beginning of the love affair with Guinevere,
iii. Sir Galahalt the Haut Prince
iv. Galahalt’s suicide from grief.
Holy Grail

i. Galahad’s arrival at court
ii. beginning of the quest
iii. Bors’ quest
iv. end of the quest in Sarras.
n. Heldris of Cornwall – Roman de Silence

i. Nature vs. Nurture
ii. Merlin sections
o. Morien
p. Melech Artus
q. Alliterative Morte Arthure
r. Geoffrey Chaucer – “Wife of Bath’s Tale”
s. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (parallel text)

i. Modern English
ii. Middle English
t. Stanzaic Morte Arthur
u. Thomas Chestre – Sir Launfal
v. Hans Rosenplüt – The Crown
w. Prose Merlin

i. Conception of Merlin
ii. Uther & Ygerne
iii. Merlin & Nimiane
x. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
y. The Old Knight
z. Thomas Malory – Le Morte Darthur

1. Tale I

i. Uther & Igraine
ii. Sword in the Stone
iii. The Wedding & Round Table
iv. Pentecostal Oath
v. Merlin & Nenyve
vi. Arthur & Accolon
vii. Pelleas & Ettarde
2. Tale V

i. Palomides
3. Tale VI

i. Galahad’s arrival
4. Tale VII

i. Elaine of Ascolat
ii. Knight of the Cart
iii. The Tale of Sir Urry
5. Tale VIII

i. Rumours
ii. War with Lancelot
iii. Mordred
iv. Death of Arthur
vi. Death of Guinevere & Lancelot

Companion Website

A companion website will provide additional readings to supplement those in the print book.

Editors

Kathy Cawsey is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University. Elizabeth Edwards is Professor of English at the University of King’s College, Halifax.

JIAS 2022

Apologies for having missed posting this sooner.


The latest issue of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society was released in the fall of 2022 as a special issue on Arthurian Medievalism. It includes studies on comics, fiction, and film. Copies of the journal are sent to members of the society, and access to individual articles is possible through the publisher De Gruyter through the links below. 

Volume 10 Issue 1

Issue of Journal of the International Arthurian Society

CONTENTS
JOURNAL OVERVIEW

Contents

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Guest Editors’ Foreword: Arthurian Medievalism
Andrew B. R. Elliott, Renée Ward
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Desire, Consent and Misogyny in Post-medieval Adaptations of the Pelleas and Ettarde Story
Hannah Piercy
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Notes Towards a Close Reading of David Lowery’s 2021 Film The Green Knight
Kevin J. Harty
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‘An Ancient Procession’: Memory, Myth and Movement in Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant
Alexie Labrom
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Restorying Arthurian Legend: Space, Place and Time in Once & Future and Legendborn
Elizabeth Elliott
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Deviant Characters and the Limits of Inventio in ‘Le Chevalier et la Charrette’
Karen Casebier
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Geoffrey Ashe (1923–2022)
Scott Lloyd
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Simon Gaunt (1959–2021)
Thomas Hinton
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Willem Pieter Gerritsen (1935–2019)
Bart Besamusca
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Douglas Kelly (1934–2022)
Keith Busby
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Angus Johnston Kennedy (1940–2021)
Nadia Margolis
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Nigel F. Palmer (1946–2022)
Almut Suerbaum
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Ursula Schulze (1936–2020)
Ricarda Bauschke-Hartung
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Fiona Tolhurst (1968–2021)
K. S. Whetter
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Notices
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Biennial JIAS Essay Prize Competition 2023
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XXVIIth International Arthurian Congress, Aix-en-Provence, France, 11–18 July 2024
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Arthuriana Fall 2022

Sorry for being late on this.

Here are the contents from the last number of Arthuriana for Fall 2022.

Subscriptions can be ordered from the journal home page accessible at this link. The journal can also be accessed from Project MUSE and JSTOR if you have access to an institutional subscription.

Table of Contents
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Safe Behind Doors? Sleep Deprivation in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 3

Kristin L. Bovaird-Abbo



Exploration of Rationality: Der Stricker’s Contributions to the Intellectual Revolution in the Thirteenth Century, or, the Transformation of the Arthurian World

Albrecht Classen



Seminal Semiotics and Pornographic Displeasures in David Lowery’s The Green Knight (2021) 41

Tison Pugh



‘First You Get the Money’: Anachronism, Brexit, and King Arthur in Lavie Tidhar’s By Force Alone

Stephanie Russo



In Memoriam: Robert Simpson 75

Alan Lupack, Barbara Tepa Lupack, and Kevin J. Harty



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REVIEWS

Stephanie L. Batkie, Matthew W. Irvin, and Lynn Shutters, eds., A New Companion to Critical Thinking on Chaucer

Kevin J. Harty



A.S.G. Edwards, ed., Medieval Romance, Arthurian Literature: Essays in Honour of Elizabeth Archibald

K.S. Whetter



Maud Burnett McInerney, Translation and Temporality in Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie

Sylvia Federico



Annegret Oehme, He Should Have Listened to His Wife! The Construction of Women’s Roles in German and Yiddish Pre-Modern ‘Wigalois’ Adaptations

Evelyn Meyer



Myra Seaman, Objects of Affection: The Book and the Household in Late Medieval England

Megan G. Leitch

Now Out in Paperback: A New Companion to Malory

A New Companion to Malory

Edited by Megan G Leitch and Cory James Rushton

Full details and order information are available from the publisher at this link. 


TITLE DETAILS

344 Pages

23.4 x 15.6 cm

11 b/w illus.

Series: Arthurian Studies
Series Vol. Number: 87

Imprint: D.S.Brewer




Paperback

9781843846758

November 2022

£25.99 / $37.95




A comprehensive survey of Malory's Morte Darthur, one of the most important texts of the Middle Ages.

Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieux:textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume adds to and updates the influential Companion of 1996, offering scholars, teachers and students alike a full guide to the text and the author. The essays it contains provide a synthetic overview of, and fresh perspectives on, the key questions about and contexts connected with the Morte.




CONTENTS

Introduction
Malory in Historical Context - Catherine Nall
Malory and His Sources - Ralph Norris
Writing the Morte Darthur: Author, Manuscript, and Modern Editions - Kevin S Whetter and Thomas Howard Crofts
Malory in Literary Context - Megan G. Leitch
Malory in Print - Sian Echard
Malory and Form - Cory Rushton
Malory and Character - Dorsey Armstrong
Malory and Gender - Amy S. Kaufman
Malory and Emotion - Andrew Lynch
Secular Malory - Lisa Robeson
Spiritual Malory - Raluca Radulescu
Malory and the Wider World - Meg Roland
Malory in Wartime Britain - Robert Gossedge
Malory in Japan - Masako Takagi
Malory in America - Daniel Glynn Helbert


AUTHORS

MEGAN G. LEITCH is Senior Lecturer in English Literature at Cardiff University; CORY JAMES RUSHTON is Associate Professor in the Department of English at St Francis Xavier University, Canada.

Contributors: Dorsey Armstrong, Thomas Crofts, Siân Echard, Rob Gossedge, Daniel Helbert, Amy Kaufman, Megan Leitch, Andrew Lynch, Catherine Nall, Ralph Norris, Raluca Radulescu, Lisa Robeson, Meg Roland, Cory Rushton, Masako Takagi, Kevin Whetter.

Out Now Arthuriana 32.2

Contents for the latest number of Arthuriana:

Arthuriana for Summer 2022

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What Should a Knight do for Ladies? Knightly and Scholarly Ethics and the Different Versions of the Morte Darthur

Laura K. Bedwell



Aggravain in the Night: Malory's Comet-Villain

D. Thomas Kanks, Jr.



Chivalric Adventure (Âventiure) as Resistance to Law

Jonathan Seelye Martin

The Round Table:

News and Notes from the North American Branch



Some Thoughts on The Northman

Shaun F.D. Hughes



In Memoriam: Geoffrey Ashe

Christopher Snyder



In Memoriam: Douglas Kelly

Keith Busby 

REVIEWS

Amy V. Ogden, ed. and trans., The Life of Saint Eufrosine: In Old French Verse with English Translation

Joan Tasker Grimbert



W. Mark Ormrod, Winner and Waster and its Contexts: Chivalry, Law, and Economics in Fourteenth-Century England

Jennifer Goodman Wollock



Nicholas Perkins, The Gift of Narrative in Medieval England
Walter Wadiak



A.W. Strouse, Form and Foreskin: Medieval Narratives of Circumcision
William Robert



Leah Tether, Laura Chuhan Campbell, and Benjamin Pohl, with the assistance of Michael Richardson, The Bristol Merlin: Revealing the Secrets of a Medieval Fragment

Jean Blacker



M.J. Toswell and Anna Czarnowus, eds., Medievalism in English Canadian Literature: From Richardson to Atwood

Raymond H. Thompson



Megan Woller, From Camelot to Spamalot: Musical Retellings of Arthurian Legend on Stage and Screen

Kristin Yri

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

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Now available: Arthuriana for Winter 2021.

Full details at the journal's new website: https://www.arthuriana.com/314. 


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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

Journal of the International Arthurian Society for 2021

Catching up. I've lost track of when this arrived. 

Journal of the International Arthurian Society

Editors-in-chief: Leah Tether, Samantha Rayner

ISSN: 2196-9361

Volume 9 Issue 1

September 2021

source: https://www.degruyter.com/journal/key/jias/9/1/html (includes abstracts and citation tools)

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Peredur and the Problem of Inappropriate Questions
Natalia I. Petrovskaia
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‘Ile be the bane of Cornwall Kinge’: The ballad of King Arthur and King Cornwall and the relentless pursuit of vengeance in the pre-modern Arthurian tradition
Geert van Iersel
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Knight Fever: Sickness, masculinity and narrative absence in the Mort Artu, Béroul’s Tristan and Thomas of Britain’s Tristan
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‘Britones a Troianis duxerunt originem’: Historia Meriadoci, De ortu Waluuanii and their Galfridian companion-text in BL MS Cotton Faustina B VI
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Some Persistent Mysteries of Malory’s Texts and Sources
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Surprised by Percival: Arthurian Transtextuality and the Reader in George MacDonald’s Phantastes
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Heinz Bergner (1936–2021)
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Seraina Plotke (1972–2020)
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New Book: Arthurian Legend in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

New collection out now:

Arthurian Legend in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

Full details: https://vernonpress.com/book/1011 (plus intro and index)

Susan L. Austin (Ed.)

With contributions by Sarah Gordon (Utah State University), Carl Sell (Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania), Tracey Thomas (York University), Susan L. Austin (Landmark College), Zainah Usman (Tarrant Country College Northwest), Adrienne Major (Landmark College), Erin Mullally (Le Moyne College), Leah Hamilton (Xavier University)

Hardback $61 

Availability: In stock

also in E-book $ 75 , Paperback $ 48




SUMMARY

The King Arthur we imagine did not exist in history. He is the result of stories told and retold, changed and added to by storytellers for centuries, each making the story reflect the storyteller’s time and values.

The chapters in this book look at movies, manga, comic books, a television show, and traditional books released since 1960 to explore some of the ways King Arthur has been reimagined in the past 60 years. Interpreting Avalon High and The Kid Who Would Be King, Camelot 3000 and King Arthur vs. Dracula, Fate/Zero, John Steinbeck’s The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, the influence of Arthurian legend on Harry Potter, Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, John Boorman’s Excalibur, Jerry Zucker’s First Knight, Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur, Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword, Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, Iris Murdoch’s The Time of the Angels, and the BBC series Merlin, the authors find that while we are still interested in the idea of King Arthur, we may also want his story to be more racially and gender inclusive, less elitist, and in some cases, more secular.




TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1
Kids and kings: postmodern nostalgia and youthful Arthurian cinematic retellings
Sarah Gordon
Utah State University

Chapter 2
Camelot 3000 and Dracula vs. King Arthur: The uses of limited-run comics as updates of the Arthurian legend for contemporary readers
Carl Sell
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania

Chapter 3
The fate of Artoria: contextually exploring gender, character, and conflict in Fate/Zero
Tracey Thomas
York University

Chapter 4
Gender and class in John Steinbeck’s The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
Susan L. Austin
Landmark College

Chapter 5
A kid wizard in King Arthur’s court
Zainah Usman
Tarrant County College Northwest

Chapter 6
Chivalry and ambition in Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King
Susan L. Austin
Landmark College

Chapter 7
Democratic dreams and the death of Arthur, king
Adrienne Major
Landmark College

Chapter 8
Killing Arthur: revising the Perceval myth in “Kingsman: The Secret Service”
Erin Mullally
Le Moyne College

Chapter 9
The death of the Fisher King in Iris Murdoch’s The Time of the Angels
Susan L. Austin
Landmark College

Chapter 10
When Arthurian heroes fall: adapting moral failure and Christian redemption in the BBC’s Merlin
Leah Hamilton
Xavier University

Index


EDITOR BIOGRAPHY


Susan Austin has worked at Landmark College, Vermont, for over a decade. There, she pursues her research interests, which include film adaptations of literature and modern and contemporary fiction. She teaches a course that uses Arthurian and related materials as sources for analysis and synthesis essays, and then sends students off to research and write about related topics in literature, history, archaeology, science, and popular culture. She holds an MA in English Literature from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. Associate Professor Austin has presented several papers at the Northeastern Modern Language Association Conference in the last decade and she has chaired five sessions, one of which is the basis for this volume.