Two 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
Emar
é,
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.
Cuprins
Elizabeth 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
Despre autor
Ad Putter is Professor of Medieval English at the University of Bristol, UK, co-director of Bristol’s Centre for Medieval Studies, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author and editor of numerous books, with a particular interest in Medieval Romance texts and the works of the Gawain poet. He is currently leading a research project on the literary heritage of Anglo-Dutch relations.