Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend
For more than a thousand years, the adventures of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table have been retold across Europe. They have inspired some of the most important works of European literature, particularly in the medieval period: the romances of Chrétien de Troyes, Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. In the nineteenth century, interest in the Arthurian legend revived with Tennyson, Wagner and Twain. This Companion...
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An overview of how the legend of Arthur and his Knights evolved from the earliest documentary sources to Spamalot.
Acknowledgements viiNotes on Contributors ixFrequently Cited Sources and Abbreviations xiiA Selective Chronology xvMap of Arthurian Britain xixIntroduction Ad Putter Elizabeth Archibald 1Part I Evolution 191 The early Arthur: history and myth Ronald Hutton 212 The twelfth-century Arthur Ad Putter 363 The thirteenth-century Arthur Jane H. M. Taylor 534 The fourteenth-century Arthur J. A. Burrow 695 The fifteenth-century Arthur Barry Windeatt 846 The Arthur of the sixteenth to nineteenth centuries Rob Gossedge Stephen Knight 1037 The Arthur of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Norris J. Lacy 120Part II Themes 1378 Questioning Arthurian ideals Elizabeth Archibald 1399 Arthurian ethics Jane Gilbert 15410 Imperial Arthur: home and away Andrew Lynch 17111 Love and adultery: Arthur's affairs Peggy Mccracken 18812 Religion and magic Corinne Saunders 20113 Arthurian geography Robert Allen Rouse Cory James Rushton 218Further Reading 235Index 253
\ From the Publisher'The welcome new addition to the authoritative Cambridge Companion series traces Arthurian narrative from history through pseudo-history to romance, and on into the post-medieval centuries. … Ad Putter's chapter on the twelfth century is a masterpiece of compression …' Times Literary Supplement\ \
