Arthur of England: English Attitudes to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance (review)

Parergon ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-143
Author(s):  
Jennifer Strauss
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Round Table ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
The Middle Ages

scholarly journals IMPACT OF CHRISTIANITY ON DEVELOPMENT OF KING ARTHUR LEGENDS IN THE KNIGHT LITHERATURE OF MIDDLE AGES

2021 ◽  
Vol 02 (06) ◽  
pp. 150-156
Author(s):  
E.M. Yanenko ◽  
◽  
V.I. Zolotov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Round Table ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Cultural Tradition ◽  
British Isles ◽  
Actual Problem ◽  
Main Method ◽  
Christian Morality ◽  
Further Development ◽  
The Middle Ages

The article deals with the actual problem of cultural contact for modern historical knowledge on the example of the origin and development of the legends about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. The main purpose of the research is to reflect the understanding of historically important images and symbols of European society through the subjective ideas, thoughts and intentions of a person of the Middle Ages. The main method of research is the socio-cultural approach, focused on the relations of people of the time, characterized by cultural diversity. Christianity in the Arthurian legends of the Middle Ages was one of the elements that had a significant impact on their formation and further development. This was influenced by the early and peaceful Christianization of the British Isles, as well as the cultural and religious contact of the Celtic settlers with the population of Armorica. This article examines two branches of the development of Arthurianism, the Christian origins of the legend of the Holy Grail, as well as the influence of Christian morality and homiletics on the plot-forming motifs of the medieval chivalric novel. In the course of the study, it is traced what influence on the development of the Arthurian cycle, in addition to the ancient Celto-Welsh tradition, was exerted by the early Christianization of the British Isles and how the combination of these factors turned Arthurian into a significant cultural tradition of European civilization.

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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Antiquity ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 81 (313) ◽  
pp. 826-826
Author(s):  
Madeleine Hummler
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
Round Table ◽  
Anglo Saxon ◽  
Early Medieval ◽  
Early Middle Ages ◽  
Renaissance Studies ◽  
Medieval Archaeology ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
Insular Art

scholarly journals CORPO FEMININO: CORPO SUBMISSO? A MULHER NAS NARRATIVAS DE SIR GAWAIN

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiane da Silva Alves
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Sir Gawain ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

RESUMO: A partir do estudo do contexto medieval e fazendo uso do imaginário como operador teórico, o presente trabalho trata da análise de textos extraídos da obra Sir Gawain – Cavaleiro da Távola Redonda: Ciclo do Rei Arthur, averiguando especificamente o modo como neles a mulher é tratada. No decorrer da Idade Média, e sob o domínio da Igreja, vai se acentuando a condenação da luxúria, da sexualidade e do “portão” destes “males”, da grande veiculadora – a mulher. A fim de minimizar seus potenciais maléficos, pregava a Igreja o discurso da inferioridade e da submissão feminina. O que este estudo pretende investigar é se as mulheres nas narrativas arthurianas eram apresentadas em consonância com os ideais monásticos. ABSTRACT: Starting from the study of the medieval context and using the imaginary as theoretical operator, this work analyses texts extracted from Sir Gawain – Cavaleiro da Távola Redonda: Ciclo do Rei Arthur, specifically checking the way they describe woman. During the Middle Ages, under the dominion of the Church, the condemnation of the luxury increases, as well as the condemnation of the sexuality and of the “gate” of those evils, the great vehicle – the woman. In order to diminish her malign power, the Church preached the speech of the inferiority and of the female submission. The aim of this study is to investigate if the women in the Arthurian narratives were portrayed according to the monastic ideals. KEYWORDS: Middle Ages – Woman – Cycle of King Arthur

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