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Book SynopsisTwo crucial genres of medieval literature are studied in this outstanding collection. The essays in this volume honour the distinguished career of Professor Elizabeth Archibald. They explore two areas that her scholarship has done so much to illuminate: medieval romance, and Arthurian literature. Several chapters examine individual romances, including Emaré, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Roman de Silence. Others focus on wider concerns in romances and related works in Middle English, Latin, French, German and Icelandic, from a variety of perspectives. Later chapters consider Arthurian material, with a particular emphasis on hitherto unexamined aspects of Malory's Morte Darthur. It thus, fittingly, reflects the range of linguistic and literary expertise that Professor Archibald has brought to these fields.
Table of ContentsElizabeth Archibald: An Appreciation A. S. G. Edwards Introduction: Learning, Romance and Arthurianism Helen Cooper 1. Silence in Debate: The Intellectual Nature of the Roman de Silence Venetia Bridges 2. From Sorceresses to Scholars: Universities and the Disenchantment of Romance Megan G. Leitch 3. The Island of Sicily and the Matter of Britain Aisling Byrne 4. Romance Repetitions and the Sea: Brendan, Constance, Apollonius Helen Cooper 5. Emaré: The Story and its Telling A. C. Spearing 6. Dark Nights of Romance: Thinking and Feeling in the Moment Corinne Saunders 7. 'This was a sodeyn love': Ladies Fall in Love in Medieval Romance Carolyne Larrington 8. Noise, Sound and Silence in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Jordi Sánchez-Marti 9. 'What maner a knight ... is that semyth in so many dyvers coloures?' Armorial Colours, Quasi-Heraldry, and the Disguised Identity Motif in Sir Gowther, Ipomadon A, and Malory's Tale of Sir Gareth of Orkeney Michael J. Huxtable 10. The Body Language of Malory's Le Morte Darthur Barry Windeatt 11. 'Spirituall thynges': Human-Divine Encounters in Malory Andrew Lynch 12. Malory's Morte Darthur and the Bible E. D. Kennedy 13. Arthurian Literature in the Percy Folio Manuscript Neil Cartlidge 14. Dutch, French and English in Caxton's Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye Ad Putter Bibliography of Elizabeth Archibald's Writings Index Tabula Gratulatoria
