Between Epic and Lyric Poetry: The Originality of Gottfried’s Tristan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction: The Challenge of Gottfried’s Tristan 1
5. I. Cultural and Social Contexts
6. Humanism in the High Middle Ages: The Case of Gottfried’s Tristan 23
7. Gottfried’s Strasbourg: The City and Its People 55
8. II. Figures, Themes, Episodes
9. Gottfried’s Adaptation of the Story of Riwalin and Blanscheflur 73
10. This Drink Will Be the Death of You: Interpreting the Love Potion in Gottfried’s Tristan 87
11. God, Religion, and Ambiguity in Tristan 113
12. The Female Figures in Gottfried’s Tristan and Isolde 137
13. Performances of Love: Tristan and Isolde at Court 159
14. Duplicity and Duplexity: The Isolde of the White Hands Sequence 183
15. III. Gottfried’s Narrative Art
16. Between Epic and Lyric Poetry: The Originality of Gottfried’s Tristan 205
17. History, Fable and Love: Gottfried, Thomas, and the Matter of Britain 223
18. IV. The Medieval and Modern Reception of Gottfried’s Tristan
19. The Medieval Reception of Gottfried’s Tristan 261
20. The Modern Reception of Gottfried’s Tristan and the Medieval Legend of Tristan and Isolde 285
21. Contributors 305
22. Index 307