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Abstract: The primacy of the 'sister's son' relationship is a feature of Arthurian literature since Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. There, Arthur's nephews Gawain and Mordred are sons of a sister named Anna, their father being Lot of Orkney.1 In HRB Mordred solidifies his role as the great betrayer and ultimate downfall of his uncle.2 This betrayal can be viewed as heightened by the fact that a man's close relationship with the male child of his sister, termed 'the avunculate' in anthropological terms, is a concept of significance that features in many Northwestern European and wider Indo-European literatures.3 This was most likely for reasons of succession and the assurance of kinship that results from it: ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: I will investigate the manner in which the medieval alliterative poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, circa 1370 (referred to hereafter as SGGK) has been represented in other creative media, discussing the original four images accompanying the manuscript (Cotton Nero A.x held at the British Library) and the illustrations that have accompanied various translations, as well as art practice and film that has taken up the themes of SGGK as subject matter. New works by the contemporary artists discussed have been made specifically for this project.I argue that the intertextual nature of the poem is a direct consequence of its ideation by the Pearl-Poet, drawing on existing narratives and additionally in the chance ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: David Lowery's The Green Knight (2021), a film version of the Middle English poem Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, begins flamboyantly.1 After a brief opening credit, we see a black screen, and a voice-over—hoarse, female—intones:Look, see a worldthat holds more wondersthan any since theEarth was born.The blackness dissolves into a dark, lofty interior with a domed ceiling and beams of light streaming through an oculus window and an opening in the dome. As the voice-over continues, the camera tilts down toward a male figure in gold robes, seated on a throne, with a halo-like crown, an aureole, hovering high above him. This is the film's lead actor, Dev Patel. As the camera zooms in on the seated figure, the ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: A man goes off to war. He sees his comrades, including his best friends, killed on the battlefield. He falls apart, weeping uncontrollably, refusing food for days. He returns home alive, but life has lost its meaning. His work, his pastimes, and his relationships bring him no pleasure. He can tolerate, just barely, his closest friends and family members, but crowds repel him. Music soothes him somewhat, allowing him moments of lucidity, but he is subject to violent mood swings. Once kind and generous, he now takes malicious delight in the misfortunes of others. He abandons his responsibilities, his friends, and his family for a hermit's life, as far from the bother and business of the world as he can get. His wife ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Dan Nastali, one of the best-known, independent Arthurian scholars in the North American Branch, passed away suddenly at home on March 4, 2024. Dan was an avid collector of Arthurian works for many years, and he put his extensive knowledge of recent developments in the tradition to good use in a stream of articles in Arthuriana and other periodicals and in collections of essays focusing on comics, music, and Arthurian ephemera.Born in Chicago, he moved with his family to Kansas City when he started elementary school. His life-long love of books partly reflected his formal degree training in English literature at Creighton University in Omaha. After finishing his schooling, he married Susie Kuchel, a nurse, and they ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The aim of Lindy Brady's deeply-researched and wide-ranging book is to examine in parallel the origin stories of the four peoples who inhabited early Britain and Ireland —the British, Anglo-Saxons, Irish, and Picts. As she asserts, this is the first time these origin legends have been studied together, since they tend to be examined as part of separate endeavours driven by specific agendas and the straitjacket of academic disciplines grounded in modern nationalisms.The five core texts considered in the book are among our earliest and most important sources for early British and Irish history: Gildas' De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae, providing the origin legend of Anglo-Saxons, Bede's Historia Ecclesiastica ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Readers of this splendidly researched, engaging book will be invited at one level to follow the Manteo family of puppeteers from Catania to Little Italy, New York, while also pursuing the more intriguing, fantastic, exhilarating travels of the protagonists in the adventures dramatized in their puppet theater itself. The Paladins and their ladies, often knights themselves, chased each other over Europe and the Middle East, from the Paris of Charlemagne to Cathay, and to Spain, Tunisia, Lampedusa, Jerusalem, and even to the moon. Their lives were rendered more complex by the battles and duels they fought on the way and by their encounters with monsters, winged horses, duplicitous enemies who employed poisons or love ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The editors of The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature have considered a number of criteria in selecting texts. They include what they call 'necessary texts' (p. 16): selections from Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes, and Thomas Malory, emphasizing those parts of Geoffrey and Malory that focus on female characters. Among their other criteria are: 'first or main versions of tales that became canonical' (p. 17); generic and formal variety; the geographic scope of the legends; diversity of authors—to the limited extent that the material allows—and of narratives or characters (female, racialized, queer).This emphasis is indeed desirable and commendable. The editors themselves, however, lament ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This essay collection explores the diverse ethics of Arthurian literature and Arthurian readers, and it therefore casts a wide net. It looks at literature in Welsh, French, German, Old Norse, English, and Dutch. While most of the chapters focus on medieval literature, several focus on contemporary concerns. Most of the pieces focus on the ethical issues within works of literature, but some focus on the ethics of reading, writing, or editing Arthurian texts. The diversity of material does a good job in revealing some of the range of Arthurian literature, with enough in common for the whole to be more than the sum of its parts. Instead of trying to define what Arthurian chivalry is, the general approach is to ask ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: This volume is an excellent and timely supplement to Krueger's 2000 Cambridge Companion to Medieval Romance that demonstrates how much the conversation about medieval romance has developed in these twenty-three years. Krueger has moved away from the three-part structure of the first volume; the essays in this volume take a wider variety of approaches that are harder to categorize. They consider form, narrative, geography, race, gender, emotions, what we might call national and international political contexts, and the reception and adaptation of medieval romance, among other approaches. Krueger's introduction is remarkably comprehensive while also being concise. She outlines the seeming tensions in the genre—its ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: Cecelia Linton has read widely, is good at explaining the Middle Ages, can handle a book-length argument, and has a sharp eye for weak points in contrary opinions, including mine. She does not always, however, apply it to her own argument. Her book opens with a striking photograph of the Clerkenwell Museum processional cross, which she attributes to Robert Malory, prior of the English Hospitallers 1432–39; it includes a shield bearing the two-tailed lion rampant of the senior medieval Malorys. The cross, however, is a fake: Prior Robert used the chevron engrailed of the Malorys of Newbold Revel (see P.J.C. Field, 'Sir Robert Malory, Prior of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England [1432–1439/40],' Journal ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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Abstract: The twelfth-century historian Alfred of Beverley has received little attention, especially in comparison with other writers who produced histories of Britain during the high Middle Ages. However, the last few decades have witnessed increasing scholarly appreciation for the historiographical and rhetorical skills of those medieval writers who, like Alfred, compiled histories almost entirely from earlier sources. This fine book, the first modern critical edition of Alfred's History, will hopefully spark new and much-deserved interest in Alfred's work.The bulk of the volume is given to a facing-page edition and translation of Alfred's History. The editor provides textual variants in the footnotes, as well as ... Read More PubDate: 2024-07-14T00:00:00-05:00
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