Arthurian Literature XLI, Gebunden

Klappentext

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.

This volume covers a wide range of materials, whether judged by national or linguistic literary traditions, time period, or critical methodology. It begins with the winning Brewer Prize essay (for an early career scholar): in this case, an investigation of transgender possibilities in the Grisandole episode from the Old French Suite du Merlin . Subsequent essays examine what can be gleaned of the legend of Melwas from surviving medieval and early modern Welsh tradition; the vexed question of Chrétien de Troyes' attitude to marriage; and the ways in which the authors of the Middle English Sir Percyvell and Middle Dutch Moriaen adapt and complete Chrétien's Conte du Graal . The volume closes with two different studies of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur . The first presents an argument for a continuation of Lollard concerns into the fifteenth century, concerns that run throughout Malory's Arthuriad. The second re-opens the question of the provenance of William Caxton's copy-text for Malory's Morte, proposing that it was Anthony Wydeville, the brother-in-law of King Edward IV, who provided Caxton with his copy-text manuscript - as he designed the striking red-letter names visible today in the layout of the Winchester manuscript.