Description
Book SynopsisThese two volumes collect and update Professor Stones’s papers on Arthurian manuscript illustration, one of her continuing passions. These essays explore aspects of the iconography of the romances of Chrétien de Troyes in French verse, the lengthy Lancelot-Grail romance in French prose, and other versions of the chivalrous exploits of King Arthur’s knights — the best-sellers of the Middle Ages. Illustrated copies of these romances survive in huge numbers from the early thirteenth century through the beginnings of print, and were read for their text and their pictures throughout the French-speaking world. Of special interest is the cultural context in which these popular works were made and disseminated, by scribes and artists whose work encompassed all kinds of books, for patrons whose collecting was wide-ranging, including secular books alongside works of liturgical and devotional interest.
Table of ContentsLancelot
Seeing the Walls of Troy
Illustrating Lancelot and Guinevere
Images of Temptation, Seduction and Discovery in the Prose Lancelot: A Preliminary Note
Illustration et stratégie illustrative dans quelques manuscrits du Lancelot-Graal
Mort Artu
The Illustrations of the Mort Artu in Yale 229: Formats, Choices, and Comparisons
Illustration and the Fortunes of Arthur
Aspects of Arthur's Death in Medieval Illumination
The Lancelot-Grail Project: Chronological and Geographical Distribution of Lancelot-Grail Manuscripts
Chrétien de Troyes, Wace, Luce de Gast
Les manuscrits de Chrétien de Troyes. Introduction
The Illustrated Chrétien Manuscripts and their Artistic Context
The Egerton Brut and Its Illustrations
The Artistic Context of Some Northern French Illustrated Tristan Manuscripts
Epilogue: Arthurian Art: the Past, the Present, and the Future
Bibliography
Index
