Megan G Leitch & Kevin S Whetter 
Arthurian Literature XXXVI [PDF ebook] 
Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance

Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT


Guest Editors: Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer

This special issue focuses on space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections between quest space and individual spirituality in the Vulgate
Queste and Malory’s
Morte Darthur; penitence in Hartmann’s
Iwein and
Gregorius; parallels in sacred spaces in the Matter of Britain and medieval Ireland; political prophecy in
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and
The Awntyrs off Arthure A; syntagmatic and paradigmatic spaces in Chrétien’s
Perceval; spatial significance in
Wigalois and
Prosa Lancelot; the political meaning of the tomb of King Lot and the rebel kings in Malory’s
Morte Darthur; and sexual spaces in twelfth-century French romance.

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General Editors’ Preface

List of Contributors

Introduction: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance,

Sarah Bowden and Susanne Friede

1. The Church and the Otherworld: Sacred Spaces in the
Matière de Bretagne and Medieval Ireland

John Carey

2. Sacred Spaces: the Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic construction of Narrated Space in Chrétien’s
Conte du Graal

Susanne Friede

3. Perceiving the Way: Sacred Spaces and Imaginary Pilgrimage in the Vulgate Cycle
Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory’s 'Tale of the Sankgreal’

Martha Claire Baldon

4. Affirming Absence and Embracing Nothing: on the Paradoxical Place of Heterosexual Sex in Medieval French Verse Romance

Charlie Samuelson

5. Spaces of Remorse: Penitential Allusions in
Iwein

Sarah Bowden

6. The Spatial Narratives of Salvation and Damnation in
Wigalois and the
Prose Lancelot

Andreas Hammer

7. 'Fantoum and Fayryȝe’: Visions of the End of Arthurian Britain

Victoria Flood

8. The Tomb of the Kings: Imperial Space in Arthur’s Camelot

Cory James Rushton

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K. S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University, Nova Scotia.