Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Categorizing the Alliterative Morte Arthure has proven to be an exercise in defining the indefinable. Larry D. Benson opines that ‘its critics disagree not simply on what the poem is about but on what it is—romance, epic, or tragedy.’1 Literary pundits have spent the last several decades attempting to stuff the Alliterative Morte’s round peg into myriad holes of disparate shapes and significance, yet most have provided no better fit than the idiomatic square hole. The role of Arthur himself within the poem has presented those same pundits with the opportunity for a debate which is every bit as contentious: Is the poem representing Arthur as hero or tyrant' Benevolent ruler or warmongering despot' In her article ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Katherine Terrell’s Scripting the Nation is a detailed, engaging, and authoritative account of the relationship between late medieval Scottish historiography and courtly poetry. This book takes a fresh approach to the well-established subject of Anglo-Scottish literary relations by considering how these two apparently distinct strands of Scotland’s literary culture interweave with one another and with analogous English traditions to define a sense of Scottish nationhood. Terrell observes that ‘the very nature of a border implies a relationship between sides; borders are points of interaction as well as separation’ (p. 49), and the monograph skilfully maps the appropriation and repudiation of English sources in the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: This volume offers a survey of late Middle English romances with a view to understanding how these texts treat contemporary perspectives on the natural world. Andrew Richmond argues that writers and consumers of these texts were aware of humans’ damaging impact on the natural world, and that the texts themselves reflect anxieties about unpredictable weather resulting from the Little Ice Age. This overarching thesis is woven through five interlinked sections, each of which offers valuable close readings of various romances—some of which have received little critical attention. The introductory chapter makes the strongest case for this twofold thesis and prepares the ground for the subsequent chapters with some ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Early Medieval English Life Courses: Cultural-Historical Perspectives literally considers some age-old questions: how does the human body change throughout its lifetime' What is the relationship between physical, emotional, and intellectual maturity' How is the biological process of aging conditioned by one’s social environment' The essays in this volume look for answers in a range of sources from pre-Conquest England, and, in so doing, provide a rich account of perspectives on the stages of human development.The collection helpfully groups the essays into four sections with three essays in each. Part I is dedicated to ‘Defining and Dividing the Life Course,’ with the first two essays examining how stages of the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Kathryn Kerby-Fulton’s learned study concerns the ‘class’ of clerics in medieval England who were unable to realize their goals to become beneficed priests, and who of necessity, therefore, became the ‘underbeneficed king’s clerks, lawmen, household chaplains, civic record keepers, careerist clerks in government’ (p. 35)—the focus of Part One (four chapters)—and ‘the singing clerks, chantry priests, and other minor court officials of cathedrals and colleges’ (p. 177)—the focus of Part Two (three chapters). Yet the liminal space between civic and church worlds these well-educated, tri-lingual workers occupied allowed them to contribute significantly to the development of English literature in the Middle Ages. ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Thirteen essays from the 2018 Romance in Medieval Britain conference at Cardiff University appear in this cohesive collection that explores translation between both languages and cultural contexts. All the medieval languages of the British Isles are represented: English, French, Irish, Latin, Norse, and Welsh. Shared languages, themes, and approaches link groups of essays, so that the collection flows smoothly, with discernable sections on Welsh; gender and sexuality; structural, cultural, or historical linkages between Old French and Middle English romance; and late developments in the genre.Flood and Leitch’s introduction lays out the central issues of the volume: frameworks in which to understand medieval ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Website of the IAS-NAB: http://www.international-arthurian-society-nab.org.nab officers december 15, 2021–2024 (for full addresses, see: http://www.international-arthuriansociety-nab.org/contact)President: Joseph M. Sullivan (University of Oklahoma)Immediate Past President: David F. Johnson (Florida State University)Vice-President: Siân Echard (The University of British Columbia)Secretary-Treasurer: Jonathan Martin (Illinois State University)Bibliographer: Ann Howey (Brock University)Early Career Member: Margaret Sheble (Independent Scholar)Graduate Student Member: Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan (University of Wisconsin, Madison)Arthuriana Editor: Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue University)Canadian Representative: Cory ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: [Y]et som men say in many partys of Inglonde that Kynge Arthure ys nat ded, but had by the wyll of our Oure Lorde Jesu into another place; and men say that he shall com agayne, and he shall wynne the Holy Crosse. Yet I woll nat say that hit shall be so, but rather I wolde sey: here in thys worlde he chaunged hys lyff. And many men say that there ys wrytten uppon the tumbe thys vers: ‘Hic iacet Arthurus, Rex quondam Rexque futurus.’The passage above includes some of the most famous, significant, and momentous lines concerning the legend of King Arthur—not only to be found Sir Thomas Malory’s magnum opus, Le Morte Darthur, but also, arguably, from the entire corpus of Arthuriana.2 If Malory’s rendering of the ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Breuddwyd Rhonabwy [Rhonabwy’s Dream] stages a journey from the legible political landscape of twelfth-century Wales into the paradox-ridden Arthurian past. While the elements of parody and rhetorical display throughout this difficult text have provoked a wide range of interpretations, my analysis takes seriously the depiction of Rhonabwy’s travel through time. Dreaming himself into history, Rhonabwy ruptures the continuity between past and present. In doing so, he highlights both the artificiality and the oppressive nature of historic emplotment, while opening the question of whether an escape from such a narrative might be possible.The Breuddwyd is committed to imagining the stakes of weirded temporal motion, of ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Please help us test our new pre-print finding feature by giving the pre-print link a rating. A 5 star rating indicates the linked pre-print has the exact same content as the published article.
Abstract: Scholars have used the history of emotions as a theoretical approach to Malory’s Morte Darthur already, yet we are still at the beginning of the journey using this approach.1 One of the most noticeable dimensions of the experience of emotion in Malory’s Morte is that of extreme displays of emotion, most commonly extreme joy or sorrow.2 Nowhere are these more evident than in the ‘Tale of the Sankgreal’ (henceforth Sankgreal) and the last two tales of Malory’s Morte, where several characters’ actions precipitate the demise of the Round Table and Arthur himself. One of these characters is Sir Gawain, whose emotional responses to events in these sections of the Morte require even more careful nuancing than traditional ... Read More PubDate: 2023-05-11T00:00:00-05:00
Subscription journal
[305 journals]
