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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

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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"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

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Series: Arthurian Literature

Series Vol. Number: 38

Imprint: D.S.Brewer

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9781843846475

April 2023

£75.00 / $115.00 

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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

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)

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Session 425: Saturday, 11 May 2024, from 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM


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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.

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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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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  

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
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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.

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. 


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9781843846758

November 2022

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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.

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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

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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

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)

Publicly Available September 7, 2021

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Editorial
Leah Tether, Samantha J. Rayner
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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
Mary Bateman
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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
Thomas H. Crofts
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Some Persistent Mysteries of Malory’s Texts and Sources
Ralph Norris
Page range: 98-117
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Surprised by Percival: Arthurian Transtextuality and the Reader in George MacDonald’s Phantastes
Daniel Gabelman
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Obituary
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Heinz Bergner (1936–2021)
Raimund Borgmeier
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Seraina Plotke (1972–2020)
Rüdiger Schnell
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Arthuriana for Summer 2021 on Race and the Arthurian Legend

 A belated post. 

The most recent number of Arthuriana (for Summer 2021) was a special issue on "Race and the Arthurian Legend." Further details ate available from the journal's website at http://arthuriana.org/access/31-2Contents.html. 

Table of Contents

(31.2)

Introduction  

Richard Sévère 3

The Fragile Giant 

Wan-Chuan Kao 9 

Romans, Celts, and ‘Others’: Residual Colonial Models and Race in Contemporary Arthurian Novel

Amelia A. Rutledge 40 

 

Writing Arthur’s Shadow and Speaking Otherwise  

Matthew Xavier Vernon 61

 

Broken Dreams: Medievalsim, Mulataje, and Mestizaje in the Work of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera

Nahir I. Otaño Gracia 77 

 

‘Many straunge synges and tokyns’: The Affective Power of Sir Thomas Malory’s Palomides

Kavita Mudan Finn 108 

An Arthurian Empire of Magic, and its Discontents: An Afterword

Geraldine Heng 124

 

THE ROUND TABLE:  

News and Notes from the North American Branch 139  

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Amy E. Brown 170

 

Ann Howey, Afterlives of the Lady of Shalott and Elaine of Astolat

Roger Simpson 171 

 

Anna Karin, Männliche Hauptfiguren im ‘Tristan’ Gottfrieds von Strassburg. Characterisierung, Konstellation und Red  

Charles Taggart 173 

 

Tim William Machan and Jón Karl Helgason, eds., From Iceland to the Americas: Vinland and Historial Imagination

David F. Johnson 175 

 

Joanne Parker and Corinna Wagner, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Victorian Medievalism  

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Arthuriana Spring 2021 Contents

The latest issue:

Arthuriana, Vol. 31, No. 1

Spring 2021

Source: http://www.arthuriana.org/access/31-1Contents.html.

(The journal can be purchased from the press and viewed at Project MUSE. It is also archived on JSTOR behind a moving wall.)

Table of Contents

‘Truth as They Heard’: Fama in Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur
Louis J. Boyle	3
The Second Coming of King Arthur: Conspirituality, Embodied Medievalism, and the Legacy of John F. Kennedy
Ellie Crookes	32
The Romance Forests of Medieval Iceland
Maj-Britt Frenze	56
Love out of Measure: Comparing Malory’s Palomides and Lancelot
Dana Omirova	78
Winner of the ‘Fair Unknown’ Award
They ‘Laȝed . . . Þoȝ Þey Lost’: Laughter in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Jennifer Fast	92
REVIEWS
Simon Armitage, Pearl: A New Verse Translation
Ryan Buchanan Allen	116
María Odette Canivell Arzú, Literary Narratives and the Cultural Imagination: King Arthur and Don Quixote as National Heroes
Juan Miguel Zarandona	117
Glenn D. Burger and Rory G. Critten, eds., Household Knowledges in Late-Medieval England and France
Wesley Chihyung Yu	119
Benjamin A. Saltzman, Bonds of Secrecy: Law, Spirituality, and the Literature of Concealment in Early Medieval England
Craig R. Davis	121
Charles Russell Stone, The roman de toute chevalerie: Reading Alexander Romance in Late Medieval England
Su Fang Ng	122

Arthuriana Winter 2020

Catching up:

Arthuriana, Volume 30, Number 4

Winter 2020

Source: http://www.arthuriana.org/access/30-4Contents.html.

 

Table of Contents

‘I rebel against the story. I am sure the half of it was never told us’: Elizabeth Stuart Phelps’ ‘The True Story of Guenever’ and Nineteenth-Century Women in the Literary Marketplace
Virginia Blanton and Jennifer Phegley	3
The Hero and Severed Heads: Moral Display in the Prose Lancelot
David S. King	26
Colgrevaunce’s Supposed Shame in Ywain and Gawain
Ryan Naughton	41
Malory’s ‘Fyne Force’: Motion in Le Morte Darthur
Thomas Schneider	56
REVIEWS
Valerie Hansen, The Year 1000: When Explorers Connected the World—and Globalization Began
Jonathan Good	70
Carissa M. Harris, Obscene Pedagogies: Transgressive Talk and Sexual Eduation in Late Medieval Britain
Amanda Joan Wetmore	73
Kevin J. Harty, ed., Medieval Women on Film: Essays on Gender, Cinema and History
Susan Aronstein	74
Joachim Heinzle, Wolfram von Eschenbach: Dichter der ritterlichen Welt
Judith Benz	76
Stephen Rayne, dir., Xcalibur, The Musical
Kevin J. Harty	78

Arthuriana Special Issue for Fall 2020

Here are the contents for the Fall 2020 number of Arthuriana. It presents a special issue, edited by Leah Haught and Leila K. Norako, on the theme of "Assembling Arthur".

As usual, the articles can be accessed by subscribers on the journal website (at http://www.arthuriana.org/access/30-3Contents.html) and to researchers on Project MUSE. 

  

Introduction: Assembling Arthur
Leah Haught and Leila K. Norako	3
Studies in Medieval Stargazing
Sarah M. Anderson	8
Beginning and Ending with Arthur: Reading Arthurian Romance ‘Compilationally’ in Two Fifteenth-Century Manuscripts
Rebecca Pope	50
The Paratexts of 15–17th Century Editions of the Morte Darthur Informed by Compilational Design
David Eugene Clark	68
Assembling the Fragments in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.	101
REVIEWS
Christopher Michael Berard, Arthurianism in Early Plantagent England from Henry II to Edward I
Matthew Giancarlo	122
Susanna Fein, ed., Interpreting MS Digby 86: A Trilingual Book from Thirteenth-Century Worcestershire
Daron Burrows	124
Nerys Anne Jones, Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry
Kevin R. Kritsch	126
Ann Marie Rasmussen, Rivalrous Masculinities: New Directions in Medieval Gender Studies
Emily Houlik-Ritchie	128
Adrian P. Tudor, The Knight and the Barrel (Le Chevalier au Barisel)
Linda Marie Rouillard	130

Arthuriana Summer 2020

My apologies for the belated post. I believe this issue arrived during the fall, but I am just remembering to post on it now.

 

Here are the contents for the Summer 2021 number of Arthuriana. It offers a good balance of scholarship on medieval and modern texts, including an updated look on film by Kevin J. Harty.

As usual, the articles can be accessed by subscribers on the journal website and to researchers on Project MUSE.

 

Table of Contents
(30.2)

 
http://www.arthuriana.org/access/30-2Contents.html

Baldwin of Britain, His Vows, and the Chivalric Ideal in the Avowing of King Arthur
Roger Dahood	3
Reconciling the Uncanny: Forgiveness, Caritas, and Compassion for Malory’s Palomides
Annie Lee Narver	20
From Camelot to China, or, ‘A History or Moral Tale About a Young Sir Gabein’s Marvelous Adventures Illustrating Divine Providence’
Annegret Oehme	48
Reading the Grail: Parodic Metafiction in Patricia McKillip’s Kingfisher
Amelia A. Rutledge	73
The 2019 Loomises Lecture
James Bond, A Grifter, A Video Avatar, and a Shark Walk into King Arthur’s Court: The Ever-Expanding Canon of Cinema Arthuriana
Kevin J. Harty	89
REVIEWS
Glenn D. Burger and Holly Crocker, eds., Medieval Affect, Feeling, and Emotion
Jennifer Sisk	122
Kellyann Fitzpatrick, Neomedievalism, Popular Culture, and the Academy: From Tolkien to Game of Thrones
Shiloh Carroll	124
Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and Erich Poppe, eds., Arthur in the Celtic Languages: The Arthurian Legend in Celtic Literatures and Traditions
Georgia Henley	126
John Marshall, Early English Performance: Medieval Plays and Robin Hood Games, Shifting Paradigms in Early English Drama Studies
Kevin J. Harty	128
Elly McCausland, Malory’s Magic Book: King Arthur and the Child, 1862-1980
Ann F. Howey	129
Gail Orgelfinger, Joan of Arc in the English Imagination, 1429-1829
Kevin J. Harty	131
Julie Ormelanski, Symptomatic Subjects, Bodies, Medicine, and Causation in the Literature of Late Medieval England
Anita Obermeier	133
Heather J. Tanner, ed., Medieval Elite Women and the Exercise of Power, 1100–1400: Moving Beyond the Exceptionalist Debate
Elizabeth Kinne	134

 

Journal of the International Arthurian Society for 2020

The latest volume of the Journal of the International Arthurian Society arrived last month.

Here are the contents from the publisher's website; the links will bring you to pages to purchase access to the articles:


Volume 8 (2020): Issue 1 (Sep 2020)
in Journal of the International Arthurian Society

(direct access at https://www.degruyter.com/view/journals/jias/8/1/jias.8.issue-1.xml)  


Titelseiten

Article Category: Frontmatter | Pages: i–iv | Published online: 22 Aug 2020

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Editorial

Leah Tether and Samantha J. Rayner

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 1–2 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020



King Arthur’s Charter: A Thirteenth-Century French Satire Against Bretons

Christopher Berard

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 3–37 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


Love, sadness and other mental states in the Middle Welsh Owain (and related texts)

Erich Poppe

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 38–60 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


Ships and Boats in David Jones’s Tristan ac Essyllt

P. J. C. Field

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 61–78 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


La voix et la lettre dans les romans arthuriens de la seconde moitié du XIIe siècle

Danièle James-Raoul

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 79–106 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


‘He ne wiste nother of evyll ne gude’: A Prelapsarian Perceval

Susanne Hafner

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 107–127 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


Hybrid Identity and the Morte Darthur’s Lady of the Lake

Maggie Rebecca Myers

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 128–149 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020




Obituary

Dhira Mahoney (1938–2019)

Anita Obermeier and Georgiana Donavin

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 150–151 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


Cyril Edwards (1947–2019)

Karen Pratt

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 152–154 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


Barbara Nelson Sargent-Baur (1928–2020)

Alison Stones

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 155–156 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


Muriel Whitaker (1923–2016)

Raymond H. Thompson

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 157–158 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


Anna Maria Finoli (1923–2020)

Maria Colombo Timelli

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 159–161 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


Maldwyn Mills (1926–2019)

Gillian Rogers

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 162–163 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020


Jacob Klingner (1973–2020)

Ludger Lieb and Christoph Schanze

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 164–166 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020




XXVIth International Arthurian Congress, Catania, Italy, 25–31 July 2021

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 167–168 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020



Biennial JIAS Essay Prize Competition 2021

Article Category: Research Article | Pages: 169 | Published online: 22 Aug 2020 

 

Arthuriana for Spring 2020

The latest number of Arthuriana arrived in the mail this week. Here are the contents from the journal's website. Access is limited to subscribers.


Table of Contents
(30.1)

The Idea of the Wilderness: Gender and Resistance in Le Roman de Silence
Jessica Barr	3
‘She was recouered of that that she was defoylyd’: Recuperating Dame Ragnell’s Lute
Crystal N. Beamer	26
Women in Wood in Wynkyn de Worde’s 1498 Morte Darthur
D. Thomas Hanks, Jr.	54
Scottish Vikings and Norse Knights: Orkney as Palimpsest in Arthuriana
Leah Haught	73
*Winner of the ‘Fair Unknown’ Award*
The Role of the Lion in the Middle English Ywain and Gawain
Christopher Jensen	104
The Round Table: News from the IAS-NAB	125
REVIEWS
David K. Coley, Death and the Pearl Maiden: Plague, Poetry, England
Katherine H. Terrell	139
Geraldine Heng, The Invention of Race in the European Middle Ages
Matthew X. Vernon	140
Nicholas J. Higham, King Arthur: The Making of the Legend
Christopher Michael Berard	141
Megan G. Leitch and Cory James Rushton, eds., A New Companion to Malory
Sarah B. Rude	144
Molly A. Martin, Castles and Space in Malory’s Morte Darthur
Kathy Cawsey	146

Arthuriana 29.3 for Fall 2019

Arthuriana has released the contents list for its next issue posting at http://www.arthuriana.org/access/29-3Contents.html. 

Here are the details:

Table of Contents
(29.3)


‘No Mowth Can Speke Hit’: Silence and Inexpressibility in Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur
Alicia A. McCartney
3

How King Arthur Invented Christmas: Reimagining Arthur and Rome in Early Modern Scotland and England
Kenneth Hodges
25


Chivalric Labor, Artisanal Labor, and the Productive Strike in The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
Schuyler Eastin
43



The 2018 Loomises Lecture
The Evolving Iconography of the Tristan Legend from the Middle Ages to the Present, with Special Emphasis on the Arthurian Revival in British Art
Joan Tasker Grimbert
66




REVIEWS
 
Venetia Bridges, Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great: Transnational Texts in England and France
Levilson C. Reis 105

 
Jo Ann Cavallo, ed., Teaching the Italian Renaissance Romance Epic
Gloria Allaire 106

 
Sarah Elliott Novacich, Shaping the Archive in Late Medieval England: History, Poetry, and Performance
Daniel Sawyer 109

 
Larissa Tracy, ed., Medieval and Early Modern Murder: Legal, Literary, and Historical Contexts
Benjamin A. Saltzman 111

 
William T. Whobrey, ed. and trans., The Nibelungenlied: with The Klage
Michael Resler 112

CFP English Arthurian Literature Between Malory and Tennyson (9/15/19; Kalamazoo 2020)

Posted on behalf of Chris Berard:

CFP: ENGLISH ARTHURIAN LITERATURE BETWEEN MALORY AND TENNYSON

International Arthurian Society-North American Branch-sponsored session
ICMS “Kalamazoo” 2020

The four centuries between William Caxton’s publication of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte d’Arthur (1485) and the completion of Alfred Lord Tennyson’s cycle of twelve narrative Arthurian poems, The Idylls of the King (1885), tend to be regarded as ‘an Arthurian nadir’ for English-language Arthurian literature. This generalization, as Alan Lupack has noted, trivializes a rich assortment of texts in which Arthur plays a leading role, but one that often departs considerably from his Malorian likeness. This panel seeks to foster an exploration of the portrayal of King Arthur within this corpus of ‘lesser’ Arthuriana. Our aim is to promote interest in these oft-forgotten texts, and to explore how these treatments of Arthur more broadly illuminate post-medieval reception of the history and literature of the Middle Ages. We invite you to explore the portrayal of King Arthur in English literary works written between 1485 and 1885—the more eccentric, the better. How was King Arthur applied to the cultural context in which the given text was composed? Did medieval Arthurian narratives serve as source material? We encourage an examination of the harmonization, successful or unsuccessful, of old and new genres and motifs.

Session format: 15-20-minute papers

Please send your 300-word abstract and completed  PIF form to David Johnson, djohnson@fsu.edu, and Christopher Berard, cberard2@providence.edu,  by September 15.