Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt, eds., The Arthur of the French: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval French and Occitan Literature. (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, 4.) Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2006. Pp. xii, 637; tables. £65.

Speculum ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 82 (04) ◽  
pp. 1050
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Arthurian Literature ◽  
Arthurian Legend ◽  
Occitan Literature ◽  
The Middle Ages

Arthur in the Celtic Languages, The Arthurian Legend in Celtic Literatures and Traditions, ed. Ceridwen Lloyd-Morgan and Erich Poppe. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages IX. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019, xxiv, 408 pp.

Mediaevistik ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 32 (1) ◽  
pp. 256-258
Author(s):  
Andrew Breeze
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Scottish Gaelic ◽  
Arthurian Literature ◽  
Arthurian Legend ◽  
What Is Said ◽  
Celtic Languages ◽  
The Usa ◽  
The Middle Ages

In twenty-four chapters, Arthurian tradition in Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Irish, or Scottish Gaelic is surveyed by writers from Wales, Germany, the USA, and beyond. What they offer is familiar enough, with no surprises. The surprises are in what is ignored, not what is said. Before we reach that, however, a summary of contents.

Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages

1960 ◽  
Vol 55 (4) ◽  
pp. 609
Author(s):  
M. O'C. Walshe ◽  
Roger Sherman Loomis
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Arthurian Literature ◽  
The Middle Ages

A Reading of Robert De Boron

PMLA ◽  
1965 ◽  
Vol 80 (5) ◽  
pp. 499-507
Author(s):  
Mary E. Giffin
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Christian Tradition ◽  
Arthurian Literature ◽  
Robert De Boron ◽  
The Middle Ages

In writing the chapter on “The Work of Robert de Boron and the Didot Perceval” for Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Pierre Le Gentil shows that many questions remain unanswered for readers of the Metrical Joseph. Beyond the statements which we understand as the poet's—that at the time when he told the story of the graal he was with his lord Gautier de Montbéliard in peace, that no one had yet told the story, and that he intends to continue with stories of Alain, Petrus, Moyses, and Bron—we have been guided in our reading largely by conjecture. From the fragment of the Merlin which follows the Metrical Joseph in MS. fr. 20047 of the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris, we can see that the poet places the two works within the concept of the struggle between Christ and Satan for the soul of man. Several of his sources have been pointed out; but beyond a few conclusions from the text itself, a reader wonders at the strange combination of Christian tradition and Celtic legend which Robert de Boron has effected in these two works. Discussions have been complicated by manuscripts of works related in various ways to the poems of MS. fr. 20047, and by the proliferation of stories of the Grail following Robert de Boron's Christianization of Celtic stories which had been circulating for about a hundred years before his time.

King Arthur and the Tudor Dynasty

2020 ◽  
pp. 21-33
Author(s):  
Philip Schwyzer
Keyword(s):  
Foreign Policy ◽  
Middle Ages ◽  
The Other ◽  
Faerie Queene ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Arthurian Literature ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
The One ◽  
The Middle Ages

The reception of the legend of Arthur in the Tudor era presents something of a paradox. On the one hand, Arthur featured prominently in pageants and public spectacles throughout the period, and at times played a surprisingly important role in foreign policy. On the other hand, chroniclers found it increasingly difficult to defend Arthur’s historicity, and the period failed to produce a major work of Arthurian literature beyond Spenser’s Faerie Queene, in which the British prince cuts a perplexingly elusive figure. With its complex and conflicting attitudes to the Arthurian tradition, the Tudor era seems to constitute a bridge or way-station between the Arthur of the Middle Ages and the Arthur of more securely post-medieval (and, hence, medievalist) eras.

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