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...
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