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

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Author: Bonnie Wheeler

ISBN-10: 1843840138

ISBN-13: 9781843840138

Category: Ancient & Medieval Literature

Peter Field, Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor, is a distinguished Arthurian scholar (and vice-president of the International Arthurian Society) whose work has focused particularly on Malory's Morte Darthur. This special interest is reflected by the contributors to this volume, but a wide variety of other Arthurian and associated material is also covered in the twenty-seven studies. The chapters range over the whole field of Arthurian vernacular texts and include new...

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Studies range over the whole field of Arthurian literature, in Europe and North America, with special focus on Malory and Morte Darthur.

ForewordProfessor Peter Field : an appreciation1The grail romances and the old law12What did Robert de Boron really write?153On capitalization is some early manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut294Tristan Rossignol : the development of a text495What's in a name? Arthurian name-dropping in the Roman de Waldef636The enigma of the Prose Yvain657Dreams and visions in the Perlesvaus738La Reine-fee in the Roman de Perceforest : rewriting, rethinking819The relationship between text and image in three manuscripts of the Estoire del Saint Graal (Lancelot-Grail Cycle)9310Wigalois and Parzival : father and son roles in the German romance of Gawain's son10111Reading between the lines : a vision of the Arthurian world reflected in Galician-Portuguese poetry11712The lost beginning of The Jeaste of Syr Gaweyne and the collation of Bodleian Library MS Douce 26113313Enide's see-through dress14314A note on the Percy Folio Grene Knight16515'False friends' in the works of the Gawain-poet17316Place-names in The Awntyrs Off Arthure : corruption, conjecture, coincidence18117Lancelot as lover in the English tradition before Malory19918Malory and middle English verse romance : the case of Sir Tristrem21719Sir Thomas Malory's (French) romance and (English) chronicle22320Romantic self-fashioning : three case studies23521Are further emendations necessary? : a note on the definite and indefinite articles in the Winchester Malory24722Lucius's exhortation in Winchester and the Caxton25323The historicity of Combat in Le Morte Darthur26124Personal weapons in Malory's Le Morte Darthur27125'Now I take uppon me the adventures to seke of holy thynges' : Lancelot and the crisis of Arthurian knighthood28526Malory's language of love29727P. J. C. Field's worshipful revision of Malory : making a virtue of necessity30728'Old Sir Thomas Malory's enchanting book' : a Connecticut Yankee reads Le Morte Darthur311