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Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field
Edited by Bonnie Wheeler


Peter Field, Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor, is a distinguished Arthurian scholar (and vice-president of the International Arthurian Society) whose work has focused particularly on Malory's Morte Darthur. This special interest is reflected by the contributors to this volume, but a wide variety of other Arthurian and associated material is also covered in the twenty-seven studies. The chapters range over the whole field of Arthurian vernacular texts and include new studies of early French and German texts as well as an analysis of the impact of Arthurian materials on Galician-Portuguese poetry. Many provide new insights into Malory's text and sources, and these culminate in reflections on Malory's impact on one later American reader, Mark Twain. Collectively the chapters on Malory substantiate a the claim that Malory is a keen and critical reader of his source texts, and that he is a powerful stylist.
Contributors BRIAN ALLEN, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, FANNI BOGDANOW, DEREK S. BREWER, GEOFFREY BROMILEY, HELEN COOPER, JANET M, COWEN, ROSALIND FIELD, LINDA GOWANS, DOUGLAS GRAY, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, AMELIA HUTCHINSON, EDWARD D. KENNEDY, ELSPETH M. KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, MARGARET LOCHERBIE-CAMERON, ROGER MIDDLETON, DAVID MILLS, MALDWYN MILLS, YUJI NAKAO, SHUNICHI NOGUCHI, RALPH NORRIS, AD PUTTER, RALUCA RADULESCU, FRANCOISE LE SAUX, JANE TAYLOR, NEIL E. THOMAS, KEVIN S. WHETTER, ANDREA WILLIAMS.

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DETAILS

1 b/w illustrations
5 line illustrations
352 pages
Size: 23.4 x 15.6 cm
10 digit ISBN: 1843840138
13 digit ISBN: 9781843840138
Binding: Hardback
First published: 30/Jun/2004
Price: 115.00 USD / 60.00 GBP
Imprint: D. S. Brewer
Series: Arthurian Studies
Subject: Medieval Literature

BIC class: CSB

STATUS: Available
Details updated on 03/07/2008

Contents
   Foreword
Bonnie Wheeler
   Professor Peter Field, An Appreciation
Margaret Locherbie-Cameron
1   The Grail Romances and the Old Law
Fanni Bogdanow
2   What did Robert de Boron really write?
Linda Gowans
3   On Capitalization in some Early Manuscripts of Wace's Roman de Brut
4   Tristan Rossignol: the development of a text
Geoffrey Bromiley
5   What's in a Name? Arthurian Name-Dropping in the Roman de Waldef
Rosalind Field
6   The Enigma of the Prose Yvain
Norris J Lacy
7   Dreams and Visions in the Perslesvaus
Andrea Williams
8   La Reine-Fée in the Roman de Perceforest: Rewriting, Rethinking
Jane H. M. Taylor
9   The Relationship between Text and Image in Three Manuscripts of the Estoire del Saint Graal (Lancelot Grail Cycle)
Elspeth M Kennedy ***
10   Wigalois and Parcival: Father and Son Roles in the German Romance of Gawain's Son
Neil E. Thomas
11   Reading between the Lines: a Vision of the Arthurian World reflected in Galician-Portuguese Poetry
Amelia Hutchinson
12   The Lost Beginning of the Jeaste of Syr Gawayne and the Collation of Bodlean Library MS Douce
Maldwyn Mills
13   Enide's see-through Dress
Roger Middleton
14   A Note on the Percy Folio Grene Knight
Douglas Gray
15   'False Friends' in the Works of the Gawain-Poet
Ad Putter
16   Place-Names in the The Awntyrs Off Arthure: corruption, conjecture, coincidence
Brian Allen
17   Lancelot as lover in the English tradition before Malory
Elizabeth Archibald
18   Malory and Middle English Verse Romance: The Case of Sir Tristram
Phillipa Hardman
19   Sir Thomas Malory's (French) Romance and (English) Chronicle
Edward Donald Kennedy
20   Romantic Self-Fashioning; Three Case Studies
David Mills
21   Are Further Emendations Necessary? A Note on the Definite and Indefinite Articles in the Winchester Malory
Yuji Nakao
22   Lucius's Exhortation in Winchester and Caxton
23   The Historicity of Combat in Le Morte Darthur
Kevin S Whetter
24   Personal Weapons in Malory's Le Morte Darthur
Derek S Brewer
25   'now i take uppon me the adventures to seke of holy thynges': Lancelot and the Crisis of Arthurian Knighthood
Raluca Radulescu
26   Malory's Language of Love
Helen Cooper
27   P.J.C. Field's Worshipful Revision of Malory: Making Virtue of Necessity
Shunichi Noguchi
28   `Old Sir Thomas Malory's Enchanting Book': A Connecticut Yankee Reads Le Morte Darthur
Janet M. Cowen

Reviews
All the contributors share a common methodology: patient, meticulous, erudite study of texts and contexts. Such exemplary scholarship makes the manner, as well as the matter, of this volume a fitting tribute to the dedicatee. MEDIUM AEVUM
There is much in this collection that is exciting and innovative, offering new insights and important research across a great range of texts and traditions.. This book deserves a place on every Arthurian scholar's shelf. MEDIEVAL REVIEW



 

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