UPDATE Teaching the Arthurian Tradition (12/1/2024; Illinois Medieval Association Symposium 1/17/2025)

The deadline for the January 17 Illinois Medieval Association Symposium session, Teaching the Arthurian Tradition, has been extended to December 1. Please see the CFP below.



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Deadline for Proposals: December 1

Session: 2:00 pm (Central) January 17, online via Zoom

The Arthurian Tradition(s) is often most students’ first and only exposure to the Middle Ages. Exposure often comes from films that students have seen: Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004), Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), and Lowery’s Green Knight (2021). What students learn from a course or unit on the Arthurian Tradition(s) is often very different from filmed depictions. This session seeks papers that explore issues, opportunities, and innovations in teaching the Arthurian Traditions(s). We welcome all aspects of teaching Arthuriana.

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than December 1, 2024.













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Michael W. Hollis-George


Executive Director
Illinois Medieval Association




Professor of English
Millikin University

mwgeorge.51@gmail.com

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CFP Teaching the Arthurian Tradition(s) (11/1/2024; IMA Symposium 1/17/2024)

Teaching the Arthurian Tradition(s)

deadline for submissions:
November 1, 2024

full name / name of organization:
Illinois Medieval Association

contact email:
mwgeorge.51@gmail.com

source: https://call-for-papers.sas.upenn.edu/cfp/2024/08/02/teaching-the-arthurian-traditions

Deadline for Proposals: November 1

Session: 2:00 pm (Central) January 17, online via Zoom

The Arthurian Tradition(s) is often most students’ first and only exposure to the Middle Ages. Exposure often comes from films that students have seen: Fuqua’s King Arthur (2004), Ritchie’s King Arthur: Legend of the Sword (2017), and Lowery’s Green Knight (2021). What students learn from a course or unit on the Arthurian Tradition(s) is often very different from filmed depictions. This session seeks papers that explore issues, opportunities, and innovations in teaching the Arthurian Traditions(s).

Submit full session proposals or paper proposals (no more than 300 words) to mwgeorge.51@gmail.com no later than November 1, 2024.



Last updated August 8, 2024

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.

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.

Sponsored Session Kalamazoo 2023

Pleased to announce the schedule for our sponsored session this year at Kalamazoo. The full program and registration information can be found on the conference website at this link. 




58th International Congress on Medieval Studies

Saturday, May 13

10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. EDT

345 Virtual

Accessing Avalon Today: Best Practices for Connecting Contemporary Readers to Arthurian Texts Online (A Roundtable)

Sponsor: Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain

Presider: Carl B. Sell, Univ. of Pittsburgh

Organizer: Michael A. Torregrossa, Bristol Community College



A roundtable discussion with Megan B. Abrahamson, Central New Mexico Community College; Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan, Univ. of Wisconsin–Madison; and Anna Czarnowus, Univ. of Silesia

CFP Accessing Avalon Today: Best Practices for Connecting Contemporary Readers to Arthurian Texts Online (9/15/2022; Kalamazoom 2023)

Call for Papers for Virtual Session of the 58th International Congress on Medieval Studies to be in a hybrid format Thursday, 11 May, through Saturday, 13 May 2023

Accessing Avalon Today: Best Practices for Connecting Contemporary Readers to Arthurian Texts Online

Sponsored by the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain

Contact: Michael A Torregrossa

Modality: Virtual

The Matter of Britain is a living tradition with new texts produced each year in a variety of media and genres. The vastness, vitality, and adaptability of the corpus, from medieval to modern, allow for an incredibly rich potential for scholarship and teaching. However, the availability and cost of many items greatly restrict what can actually be accessed by us and our students. In this session, we’d like to start a conversation related to the digital humanities about Arthurian works that are open-access materials or open-educational resources and how they can best be used in the classroom and research.

Please submit paper proposal into the Congress’s Confex system accessible at the Call for Papers page for the event (at https://wmich.edu/medievalcongress/call). Scroll down to select “Make a Proposal,” and, once on that page, select our session under the list of “Sponsored and Special Sessions of Papers”.

Submission must be made no later than 15 September 2022.

More information about the Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain can be found at our blog at https://kingarthurforever.blogspot.com/.

CFP Sponsored Sessions Kalamazoom 2023 (deadline for proposals 9/15/2022)

 Sorry for being so late sharing this.

Please submit a proposal into Confex (from this link) , if you're interested in presenting. 

Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain

Accessing Avalon Today: Best Practices for Connecting Contemporary Readers to Arthurian Texts Online

Contact: Michael A Torregrossa
Modality: Virtual
The Matter of Britain is a living tradition with new texts produced each year in a variety of media and genres. The vastness, vitality, and adaptability of the corpus, from medieval to modern, allow for an incredibly rich potential for scholarship and teaching. However, the availability and cost of many items greatly restrict what can actually be accessed by ourselves and our students. In this session, we’d like to start a conversation related to the digital humanities about Arthurian works that are open-access materials or open-educational resources and how they can best be used in the classroom and research.

Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture

Medieval Women from the Middle Ages to Modern Mass Medievalisms

Contact: Michael A. Torregrossa
Modality: Virtual
Popular culture offers both positive and negative representations of medieval women in medievalist and medievalesque works from Arthuriana and depictions of Joan of Arc and Hildegard von Bingen to Disney’s Princesses, films like The Lord of the Rings, Snow White and the Huntress and The Duel, and streaming series like House of the Dragon and Rings of Power. There has been an increasing focus on these figures in both the popular press and academic discourse; however, much work remains to be done to more fully assess how these texts adapt, adopt, and/or appropriate medieval characters and tropes.

Michael

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Michael A. Torregrossa (he/his/him), M.A.

*Founder, The Association for the Advancement of Scholarship and Teaching of the Medieval in Popular Culture:https://medievalinpopularculture.blogspot.com/

*Founder, The Alliance for the Promotion of Research on the Matter of Britain: https://kingarthurforever.blogspot.com/

New in SMART Fall 2013

The latest number of Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Teaching (20.2) includes the following essays of interest:

CRYSTAL HALL Orlando Furioso: The Board Game

MOLLY MARTIN Malory’s Launcelot and Gwenyver in the Twenty-First-Century Classroom

KAROLYN KINANE Arthurian Legends in General Education: An Example of Student-Centered Pedagogy

As always, SMART can be ordered direct at http://webs.wichita.edu/?u=smart.

Harry Potter Studies from Edwin Mellen

Edwin Mellen Press has a long history with publishing Arthurian studies, and I just came across this book earlier in the month. A number of the essays (in red) reference parallels between the series and the Arthurian story, and the final essay by Perry offers a detailed analysis linking Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone to the Arthurian novels of T. H. White.

Scholarly Studies in Harry Potter: Applying Academic Methods to a Popular Text
Hallett, Cynthia Whitney , editor
Series: Studies in British Literature Number: 99

ISBN10: 0-7734-6010-1 ISBN13: 978-0-7734-6010-2 Pages: 300 Year: 2005
Imprint: Edwin Mellen Press
USA List Price: $109.95 UK List Price: £ 69.95

This book is intended primarily for an academic audience, especially scholars – students and teachers – doing research and publication in categories such as myth and legend, children’s literature, and the Harry Potter series in particular. Additionally, it is meant for college and university teachers. However, the essays do not contain jargon that would put off an avid “lay” Harry Potter fan. Overall, this collection is an excellent addition to the growing analytical scholarship on the Harry Potter series; however, it is the first academic collection to offer practical methods of using Rowling’s novels in a variety of college and university classroom situations.

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction – Serious Scholarship and Academic Hocus Pocus: Conjuring Harry Potter into the Canon (Cynthia Whitney Hallet)
1. Educating Harry Potter: A Muggle’s Perspective on Magic and Knowledge in the Wizard World of J. K. Rowling (Sarah E. Maier)
2. Harry Potter and the Temporal Prime Directive: Time Travel, Rule-Breaking, and Misapprehension in Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban (Ron W. Cooley)
3. If yeh know where to go: Vision and Mapping in the Wizarding World (Jonathan P. Lewis)
4. A Basilisk, a Phoenix, and a Philosopher’s Stone: Harry Potter’s Myths and Legends (Peggy J. Huey)
5. Death and Rebirth: Harry Potter & the Mythology of the Phoenix (Sarah E. Gibbons)
6. The Harlequin in the Weasley Twins: Jesters in the Court of Prince Harry (and J. K. Rowling) (Rebecca Whitus Longster)
7. Lessons in Transfiguration: Allegories of Male Identity in Rowling’s Harry Potter Series (Casey Cothran)
– Conjuring Harry Potter into the Canon
8. Reading J. K. Rowling Magically: Creating C. S. Lewis’s “Good Reader” (Ernelle Fife)
9. The Problem of Identity in Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Leigh A. Neithardt)
10. Of Young Magicians and Growing Up: J. K. Rowling, Her Critics, and the “Cultural Infantilism” Debate (Steve Barfield)
11. High-Brow Harry Potter: J. K. Rowling’s Series as College-Level Literature (Laura Baker Shearer)
12. Hogwarts vs. “The Values’ Wasteland”: Harry Potter and the Formation of Character (William Wandless)
13. Metaphor and MetaFantasy: Questing for Literary Inheritance in J. K. Rowling’s Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone (Evelyn M. Perry)
About the Contributors
Afterword

Arthurian Pedagogy in Christianity and Romance in Medieval England

Published last year by D. S. Brewer:

Christianity and Romance in Medieval England
Edited by Rosalind Field, Phillipa Hardman, and Michelle Sweeney

First Published: 15 Apr 2010
13 Digit ISBN: 9781843842194
Pages: 226
Size: 23.4 x 15.6
Binding: Hardback
Imprint: D.S.Brewer
Series: Christianity and Culture: Issues in Teaching/Research
Subject: Medieval Literature
BIC Class: DSBB
$90.00

The relationship between the Christianity of medieval culture and its most characteristic narrative, the romance, is complex and the modern reading of it is too often confused. Not only can it be difficult to negotiate the distant, sometimes alien concepts of religious cultures of past centuries in a modern, secular, multi-cultural society, but there is no straightforward Christian context of Middle English romance - or of medieval romance in general, although this volume focuses on the romances of England. Medieval audiences had apparently very different expectations and demands of their entertainment: some looking for, and evidently finding, moral exempla and analogues of biblical narratives, others secular, even sensational, entertainment of a type condemned by moralising voices.

The essays collected here show how the romances of medieval England engage with its Christian culture. Topics include the handling of material from pre-Christian cultures, classical and Celtic, the effect of the Crusades, the meaning of chivalry, and the place of women in pious romances. Case studies, including Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Morte Darthur, offer new readings and ideas for teaching romance to contemporary students. They do not present a single view of a complex situation, but demonstrate the importance of reading romances with an awareness of the knowledge and cultural capital represented by Christianity for its original writers and audiences.

Contributors: HELEN PHILLIPS, STEPHEN KNIGHT, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, MARIANNE AILES, RALUCA L. RADULESCU, CORINNE SAUNDERS, K.S. WHETTER, ANDREA HOPKINS, ROSALIND FIELD, DEREK BREWER, D. THOMAS HANKS, MICHELLE SWEENEY

Contents

1 Introduction
2 Medieval Classical Romances: The Perils of Inheritance
3 Celticity and Christianity in Medieval Romance
4 Crusading, Chivalry and the Saracen World in Insular Romance
5 How Christian is Chivalry?
6 Magic and Christianity
7 Subverting, Containing and Upholding Christianity in Medieval Romance
8 Female Saints and Romance Heroines: Feminine Fiction and Faith among the Literate Elite
9 Athelston of the Middle English Nativity of St Edmund

10 Romance Traditions and Christian Values in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

11 Questioning Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Teaching the Text through its Medieval English Christian Context

12 Teaching Malory: A Subject-Centred Approach