General Editors: Megan G. Leitch and K. S. Whetter.
This special issue focuses on space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections between quest space and individual spirituality in the Vulgate 'Queste' and Malory's 'Morte Darthur'; penitence in Hartmann's 'Iwein' and 'Gregorius'; parallels in sacred spaces in the Matter of Britain and medieval Ireland; political prophecy in 'Sir Gawain and the Green Knight' and 'The Awntyrs off Arthure A'; syntagmatic and paradigmatic spaces in Chrétien's 'Perceval'; spatial significance in 'Wigalois' and Prosa 'Lancelot'; the political meaning of the tomb of King Lot and the rebel kings in Malory's 'Morte Darthur'; and sexual spaces in twelfth-century French romance.
Author(s): Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede, Andreas Hammer (eds.)
Publisher: D. S. Brewer
Year: 2021
Language: English
Pages: 206
City: Cambridge
General Editors’ Preface vii
List of Contributors ix
Introduction: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance / Sarah Bowden and Susanne Friede 1
1. The Church and the Otherworld: Sacred Spaces in the 'Matière de Bretagne' and Medieval Ireland / John Carey 13
2. Sacred Spaces: the Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Construction of Narrated Space in Chrétien’s 'Conte du Graal' / Susanne Friede 31
3. Perceiving the Way: Sacred Spaces and Imaginary Pilgrimage in the Vulgate Cycle 'Queste del Saint Graal' and Thomas Malory’s ‘Tale of the Sankgreal’ / Martha Claire Baldon 57
4. Affirming Absence and Embracing Nothing: on the Paradoxical Place of Heterosexual Sex in Medieval French Verse Romance / Charlie Samuelson 79
5. Spaces of Remorse: Penitential Allusions in 'Iwein' / Sarah Bowden 105
6. The Spatial Narratives of Salvation and Damnation in 'Wigalois' and the 'Prose Lancelot' / Andreas Hammer 125
7. ‘Fantoum and Fayryȝe’: Visions of the End of Arthurian Britain / Victoria Flood 149
8. The Tomb of the Kings: Imperial Space in Arthur’s Camelot / Cory James Rushton 175
