Book Description
Bost-Vulgate Cycle, and is one of the main sources used by Sir Thomas Malory. --
Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 43,89 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843842335
Bost-Vulgate Cycle, and is one of the main sources used by Sir Thomas Malory. --
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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 18,4 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 1843842246
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Page : pages
File Size : 28,6 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9781843842330
Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 28,49 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843842300
Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.
Author : Carol Dover
Publisher : DS Brewer
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,85 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780859917834
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.
Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 414 pages
File Size : 29,29 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1843842351
Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,94 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9780824077334
Author : Patricia Terry
Publisher : David R. Godine Publisher
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 32,74 MB
Release : 2012-07
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1567924654
The deeply resonant love story of Sir Lancelot and King Arthur's wife, Queen Guenevere, has had enduring appeal ever since it was invented in the 12th-century by the French writer Chrtien de Troyes. The protagonists became a model of ill-fated adulterers whose irresistible love led not only themselves but their entire world to perdition. The tale has been told and retold over the years in many languages and forms; the most provocative and elaborate version is in the immense suite of early-13th-century French narratives collectively called the Lancelot-Grail or Arthurian Vulgate Cycle. Related here is the whole wondrous, adventure-filled, mythic history of Arthur and his chivalric kingdom. The anonymous author of the massive section devoted to Lancelot expanded the triangle Arthur-Guenevere-Lancelot into a rectangle, adding a figure named Galehaut, Lord of the Distant Isles, a powerful political and military foe to Arthur and a rival to Guenevere for the love of Lancelot. It is an extraordinary tale, this overlapping love story, which is recounted with an understanding of human desires and aspirations unprecedented in its depth and richness. For love of Lancelot, Galehaut surrenders his political ambitions, voluntarily submitting to the rule of Arthur; the same love leads him to facilitate the rapprochement of Lancelot and the Queen. The invincible Lord of the Distant Isles, who had seemed destined to conquer the world, becomes a paragon of love-inspired self-sacrifice. Whether for political reasons or out of aversion to the homoerotic, later retellings of the Lancelot story, in whatever language, show little or no interest in Galehaut. This is especially true of Malory's great English treatment of the Arthurian legend in the 15th century, in which the high prince Galehaut appears but only peripherally and with no significant tie to Lancelot.
Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 460 pages
File Size : 20,55 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 1843842386
Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 452 pages
File Size : 15,95 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 184384236X
Parts one and two of Lancelot cover Lancelot s boyhood and his admission to Arthur s court, where he falls immediately in love with Guenevere. The adventures and quests which follow, including his friendship with the tragic Galehaut, take us to the point where he becomes a companion of the Round Table. --Book Jacket.