Acknowledgments

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Acknowledgments v
3. Table of contents vii
4. List of Contributors xi
5. List of Abbreviations xv
6. Introduction: King Arthur’s Court in Medieval European Literature 1
7. Section I. The Context of Arthurian Romance
8. Historical Context: The Middle Ages and the Code of Chivalry 13
9. The International Arthurian Society and Arthurian Scholarship 25
10. The Evolution of the Critical Canon 43
11. Text-Types and Formal Features 59
12. The Arthur-Figure 79
13. The Manuscript Context of Arthurian Romance 97
14. Readership and Audience 117
15. Section II. Approaching Arthurian Romance: Theories and Key Terms
16. Chronology, Anachronism and Translatio Imperii 135
17. Historiography: Fictionality vs. Factuality 151
18. Rewriting: Translation, Continuation and Adaptation 167
19. Intertextuality 183
20. New Philology/Manuscript Studies 199
21. Text and Image 215
22. Material Studies 225
23. The Natural World 239
24. Gender/Queer Studies 259
25. Orality, Literacy and Performativity of Arthurian Texts 273
26. Medievalism 293
27. Post-Colonial Studies 307
28. Section III. Reading Arthurian Romances: Content, Method and Context
29. Heinrich von dem Türlin’s Diu Crône: Life at the Arthurian Court 323
30. Herr Ivan: Chivalric Values and Negotiations of Identity 339
31. La Tavola Ritonda: Magic and the Supernatural 355
32. Chrétien de Troyes’ Lancelot, ou le Chevalier de la charrette: Courtly Love 373
33. Sir Percyvell of Galles: A Quest for Values 389
34. Peredur son of Efrawg: The Question of Translation and/or Adaptation 403
35. The Roman van Walewein and Moriaen: Travelling through Landscapes and Foreign Countries 415
36. The Iberian Post-Vulgate Cycle: Cyclicity in Translation 431
37. Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival: Searching for the Grail 443
38. Chrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide: Women in Arthurian Romance 461
39. Merlin: Christian Ethics and the Question of Shame 477
40. De ortu Walwanii and Historia Meriadoci: Technologies in/of Romance 493
41. Jaufre: Genre Boundaries and Ambiguity 505
42. Index 521