Arthurian Literature and Christianity: Notes from the Twentieth Century
Intended as "the other bookend" to Jessie Weston's work some eighty years earlier, this essay collection provides a careful overview of recent scholarship on possible overlap between Arthurian literature and Christianity. From Ritual to romance and Notes, taken together, bracket contemporary inquiry into the relationship (if any) between Jesus and Arthur. T.S. Eliot's "The Waste Land" is here regarded as one strand joining this matter to many a recent literary riddle (such as the meaning of...
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Nine essaysthree in translationby scholars mostly from American universities address the need for a systematic survey of scholarship on the relationship of Christianity and Arthurian literature that builds on the pioneering work of Jessie Weston and D.W. Robertson. Articles are "in dialogue" to the extent that each author responds to at least one other author in the collection. Topics include Parzival and the grail, grace and salvation in Chrétien de Troyes, the symbolic use of a turtledove for the Holy Spirit in Wolfram's , and courtly depictions of Jesus and God in late-medieval vernacular mystical literature. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
AcknowledgmentsPrefaceCh. 1The Time of the Four Branches3Ch. 2Parzival and the Grail7Ch. 3From Germanic Warrior to Christian Knight: The Heliand Transformation11Ch. 4Romancing the Grail: Fiction and Theology in the Queste del Saint Graal29Ch. 5Grace and Salvation in Chretien de Troyes61Ch. 6The Allegory of Adventure: An Approach to Chretien's Romances89Ch. 7The Symbolic Use of a Turtledove for the Holy Spirit in Wolfram's Parzival107Ch. 8The Crusades and Wolfram's Parzival127Ch. 9Lady Love, King, Minstrel: Courtly Depictions of Jesus or God in Late-Medieval Vernacular Mystical Literature141Contributors163Works Cited173Index187
