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A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle

Author : Carol Dover
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859917834
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (178 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle written by Carol Dover and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work in its social, historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts that make up the Cycle, the contributors convey to modern readers the appeal that the text must have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling. This volume will become standard reading for scholars, students, and more general readers interested in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, medieval romance, Malory studies, and the Arthurian legends. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA, MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES, HELEN COOPER, CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE, HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER is associate professor of French and director of undergraduate studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

The Lancelot-Grail Cycle

Author : William W. Kibler
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292786409
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book The Lancelot-Grail Cycle written by William W. Kibler and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-22 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed in Old French between about 1220 and 1240, the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is a group of five prose romances centered on the love affair between Lancelot and Guenevere. It consists of an immense central core, the Lancelot Proper, introduced by The History of the Holy Grail and The Story of Merlin and concluded by The Quest for the Holy Grail and The Death of Arthur. This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle. Exploring the cycle's evolution across the literatures of medieval France, Italy, Spain, Catalonia, and England, the authors take a variety of approaches that highlight a broad range of cultural, social, historical, and political concerns and offer a comparative and interdisciplinary vision of this great romance.

The History of the Holy Grail

Author :
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843842246
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Holy Grail written by and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles Or, The Book of Galehaut Retold

Author : Patricia Terry
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
ISBN 13 : 9781567923247
Total Pages : 268 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (232 download)

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Book Synopsis Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles Or, The Book of Galehaut Retold by : Patricia Terry

Download or read book Lancelot and the Lord of the Distant Isles Or, The Book of Galehaut Retold written by Patricia Terry and published by David R. Godine Publisher. This book was released on 2006 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The story of the passionate, adulterous, tragic love of Lancelot and Guenevere is at once the perfect expression of "courtly love" and its inversion. Lancelot, the superhuman stranger in King Arthur's court, sacrifices everything in service of his king, and yet also falls secretly in love with Arthur's queen, the most beautiful woman in all of Britain. That this spotless knight, who repeatedly saves Arthur and his world from destruction, should also be the fateful underminer of the king's self-confidence and, ultimately, a terrible weapon in the hands of Arthur's great adversary Galehaut, is a contradiction that has fascinated the Western mind for hundreds of years." "The Arthurian legend that most of us know comes from Malory and The Once and Future King. But there are also several books of Old French romance, the most detailed of which, the thirteenth-century "Book of Galehaut," gives a surprising and unfamiliar version. It is a double love story - the tale not only of Lancelot's love for Guenevere, but also the love of Galehaut, the Lord of the Distant Isles, for Lancelot. It is the achievement of Patricia Terry and Samuel N. Rosenberg, both seasoned translators of medieval romance, to tease out from the French sources the essential story of Lancelot, Guenevere, Galehaut, and Arthur, and, without distorting the original, retell it for today's reader. Their rich, subtle, and deeply moving narrative is complemented by evocative wood engravings by Judith Jaidinger, the most distinctive visual interpreter of Arthurian legend since Arthur Rackham and Howard Pyle."--BOOK JACKET.

The Quest of the Holy Grail

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Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780140442205
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book The Quest of the Holy Grail written by and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1969-02-28 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable. It recounts the quest of the knights of Camelot - the simple Perceval, the thoughtful Bors, the rash Gawain, the weak Lancelot and the saintly Galahad - as they journey through danger and temptation to reach the elusive Holy Grail. But only one of them is judged worthy to see the mysteries within the sacred vessel, and look upon the ineffable. Enfused with tragic grandeur and an aura of mysticism, The Quest is an absorbing and radiant allegory of man's perilous search for divine grace, and had a profound influence on later Arthurian romances and versions of the Grail legend. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature

Author : Simon Gaunt
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781139827874
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Medieval French Literature written by Simon Gaunt and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-10 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medieval French literature encompasses 450 years of literary output in Old and Middle French, mostly produced in Northern France and England. These texts, including courtly lyrics, prose and verse romances, dits amoureux and plays, proved hugely influential for other European literary traditions in the medieval period and beyond. This Companion offers a wide-ranging and stimulating guide to literature composed in medieval French from its beginnings in the ninth century until the Renaissance. The essays are grounded in detailed analysis of canonical texts and authors such as the Chanson de Roland, the Roman de la Rose, Villon's Testament, Chrétien de Troyes, Machaut, Christine de Pisan and the Tristan romances. Featuring a chronology and suggestions for further reading, this is the ideal companion for students and scholars in other fields wishing to discover the riches of the French medieval tradition.

The Book of Lancelot

Author : Bart Besamusca
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780859917698
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (176 download)

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Download or read book The Book of Lancelot written by Bart Besamusca and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2003 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The book consists of five chapters. The introductory chapter deals with the study of cyclicity, the literary context of the Lancelot Compilation, and the manuscript tradition. In the following three chapters the ten romances are studied one by one. Each analysis consists of two parts: a description of the compiler's source and a survey of his interventions. In the fifth and last chapter the Lancelot Compilation is characterized as a narrative cycle and compared with French, English and German cycles. The monograph concludes with an attempt to describe the essence of the compilation."--BOOK JACKET.

The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (129 download)

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Download or read book The Vulgate Version of the Arthurian Romances written by and published by . This book was released on 1916 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Bristol Merlin: Revealing Secrets Medi

Author : Leah Tether
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781802700688
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)

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Download or read book Bristol Merlin: Revealing Secrets Medi written by Leah Tether and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-30 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Seven manuscript fragments of the Old French Suite Vulgate du Merlin discovered in a set of early-printed books in the Bristol Central Library hit global headlines in 2019: this is a comprehensive study with accompanying transliteration of these fascinating Arthurian fragments.

Lancelot and the Grail

Author : Elspeth Kennedy
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lancelot and the Grail written by Elspeth Kennedy and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kennedy's Lancelot and the Grail offers a new solution to the fascinating puzzle of how the tale of Lancelot's love for Guinevere came to be linked with the legend of the Grail. Based on extensive research on the textual tradition of a romance copied and read over a time span of three centuries, the book raises such issues as the interplay between feudal relationships and literary structures, intertextuality, and the development of a text through time.

Walter Map and the Matter of Britain

Author : Joshua Byron Smith
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812249321
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Download or read book Walter Map and the Matter of Britain written by Joshua Byron Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain circulated in England.

Joseph d'Arimathie

Author : Robert (de Boron)
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888441201
Total Pages : 598 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Joseph d'Arimathie written by Robert (de Boron) and published by PIMS. This book was released on 1995 with total page 598 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field

Author : Bonnie Wheeler
Publisher : DS Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9781843840138
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (41 download)

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Book Synopsis Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field by : Bonnie Wheeler

Download or read book Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field written by Bonnie Wheeler and published by DS Brewer. This book was released on 2004 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Studies range over the whole field of Arthurian literature, in Europe and North America, with special focus on Malory and Morte Darthur.

Quest of the Holy Grail

Author : Anonymous
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 155481376X
Total Pages : 370 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (548 download)

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Download or read book Quest of the Holy Grail written by Anonymous and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2018-08-07 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Old French Lancelot-Graal is an important but massive work, providing a place for King Arthur not only in the history of Britain but also in Christian history. This new translation of one section, the Quest of the Holy Grail, will be a flexible addition to courses on medieval literature or romance. The notes and guides are designed to help readers enjoy the text while appreciating its relationship to social and literary history. Appendices include translations of material from two of Chrétien de Troyes’s romances (Perceval and Yvain); translations from other parts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (the early history of the Grail and the conception of Galahad); and excerpts from apocryphal works (from French versions written at about the same time as the Quest).

Worlds of Arthur

Author : Guy Halsall
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 019965817X
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (996 download)

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Download or read book Worlds of Arthur written by Guy Halsall and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2013-02-14 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of King Arthur - probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary of medieval kings.

The Complete Story of the Grail

Author : Chrétien (de Troyes)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1843844001
Total Pages : 637 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis The Complete Story of the Grail by : Chrétien (de Troyes)

Download or read book The Complete Story of the Grail written by Chrétien (de Troyes) and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2015 with total page 637 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The mysterious and haunting Grail makes its first appearance in literature in Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval at the end of the twelfth century. But Chrétien never finished his poem, leaving an unresolved story and an incomplete picture of the Grail. It was, however, far too attractive an idea to leave. Not only did it inspire quite separate works; his own unfinished poem was continued and finally completed by no fewer than four other writers. The Complete Story of the Grail is the first ever translation of the whole of the rich and compelling body of tales contained in Chrétien's poem and its four Continuations, which are finally attracting the scholarly attention they deserve. Besides Chrétien's original text, there are the anonymous First Continuation (translated here in its fullest version), the Second Continuation attributed to Wauchier de Denain, and the intriguing Third and Fourth Continuations - probably written simultaneously, with no knowledge of each other's work - by Manessier and Gerbert de Montreuil. Two other poets were drawn to create preludes explaining the background to Chrétien's story, and translated here also are their works: The Elucidation Prologue and Bliocadran. Only in this, The Story of the Grail's complete form, can the reader appreciate the narrative skill and invention of the medieval poets and their surprising responses to Chrétien's theme - not least their crucial focus on the knight as a crusader. Equally, Chrétien's original poem was almost always copied in conjunction withone or more of the Continuations, so this translation represents how most medieval readers would have encountered it. Nigel Bryant's previous translations from Medieval French include Perlesvaus - the High Bookof the Grail, Robert de Boron's trilogy Merlin and the Grail, the Medieval Romance of Alexander, The True Chronicles of Jean le Bel and Perceforest.

The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur

Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : D. S. Brewer
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur written by Norris J. Lacy and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 2008 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Exploring French, Dutch, Norse, German and English texts, literary scholars and art historians discuss medieval quest themes, especially but not exclusively the quest for the Holy Grail. A number of the essays trace the relationship, often negative, between Arthurian chivalry and the Grail ethos. Whereas most of the contributors reflect on the popularity of the Grail quest, several examine the comparative rarity of the Grail in certain literatures and define the elaboration of quest motifs severed from the Grail material"--Publisher description.