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A wide range of Arthurian material is discussed here, reflecting its diversity, and enduring vitality. Geoffrey of Monmouth's best-selling 'Historia regum Britannie' is discussed in the context of Geoffrey's reception in Wales and the relationship between Latin and Welsh literary culture. Two essays deal with the Middle English 'Ywain and Gawain': the first offers a comparative study of the Middle English poem alongside Chrétien's 'Yvain' and the Welsh 'Owein', while the second considers 'Ywain and Gawain' with the Alliterative 'Morte Arthure' in their northern English cultural and political context, the world of the Percys and the Nevilles. It is followed by a discussion of Edward III's recuperation of his abandoned Order of the Round Table, which offers an intriguing explanation for this reversal in the context of Edward's victory over the French at Poitiers. The final essay is a comparison of fifteenth- and twentieth-century portrayals of Camelot in Malory and T. H. White, as both idea and locale, and a centre of hearsay and gossip. The volume is completed with a unique and little-known medieval Greek Arthurian poem, presented in facing-page edition and modern English translation.
Author(s): Elizabeth Archibald, David F. Johnson (eds.)
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Year: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 232
City: Cambridge
General Editors’ Foreword vii
Contributors ix
I. From 'The Matter of Britain' to 'The Matter of Rome': Latin Literary Culture and the Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Wales / Georgia Henley 1
II. Chrétien’s British Yvain in England and Wales / Erich Poppe 29
III. Edward III’s Abandoned Order of the Round Table Revisited: Political Arthurianism after Poitiers / Christopher Berard 70
IV. 'Thanked Be God There Hath Been But A Few Of Myne Auncytours That Hathe Dyed In Their Beddes': Border Stories and Northern Arthurian Romances / Ralph Hanna 110
V. T. H. White’s Representation of Malory’s Camelot / Louis J. Boyle 140
VI. ΙΠΠÓΤΗΣ O ΠΡΕΣΒYΤΗΣ: 'The Old Knight'. An Edition of the Greek Arthurian Poem of Vat. Gr. 1822, with a translation by Thomas H. Crofts and Dimitra Fimi / Thomas H. Crofts 158
