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Book SynopsisFrom the twelfth century on, the legends of King Arthur and his knights spread across Europe, resulting in a wide range of adaptations and often completely new stories. Central to this expansion were the Germans and the Dutch, both of whom contributed works of outstanding quality. This edited collection surveys German and Dutch Arthurian literature, all the while documenting how the legends were modified as they came into contact with northern and central European traditions. The Arthur of the Germans will appeal to students and scholars of medieval literature and anyone interested in Arthurian, Tristan, and Grail legends.
'The bibliographies are a scholar's dream: the most recent scholarship is cited in addition to important classic works of the past. The index should be a model for those dealing with variant spellings and versions of similar works. The author of the Germans should be brought for every collage and university library where German literature, and medieval studies offered.' '...a handsome volume...highly recommended...' Choice '...an excellent source for a thoroughgoing introduction to the field...excellently edited...and handsomely produced...' Journal of English and Germanic Philology '...a volume of excellent articles written by outstanding German and British medievalists.' Studi Medievali
Table of Contents* Harry Jackson and Silvia Ranawake, Introduction; * Ingrid Kasten, The Western Background; * Silvia Ranawake, The Emergence of German Arthurian Romance; * Timothy McFarland, The Emergence of German Grail Romance; * Marion Gibbs, Fragment and Expansion; * Rosemary Wallbank, Three Post-Classical Authors; * Matthias Meyer, Intertextuality in the Later Thirteenth Century; * Mark Chinca, Tristan Narratives from the High to the Late Middle Ages; * Volker Mertens, Appendix: Arthur in the Tristan Tradition; * Volker Honemann, The Wigalois Narratives; * Elizabeth A. Andersen, The Reception of Prose; * Bernd Bastert, Late Medieval Summations; * W. H. Jackson, Lorengel and the Spruch von den Tafelrundern; * Bart Besamusca, The Medieval Dutch Arthurian Material; * John L. Flood, Arthurian Romance and German Heroic Poetry; * John E. Tailby, Arthurian Elements in Drama and Meisterlieder; * Alfred Thomas, King Arthur and his Round Table in the Culture of Medieval Bohemia and in Medieval Czech Literature; * James Rushing, The Medieval German Pictorial Evidence; * W. H. Jackson, Arthurian Material and German Society in the Middle Ages; * John L. Flood, Early Printed Editions of Arthurian Romances; * Ulrich Muller and Werner Wunderlich, The Modern Reception of the Arthurian Legend.
