The Arthur of the Germans

by Jackson, W. H.

• ISBN13: 9780708317761
• ISBN10: 0708317766
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-07-02
• Publisher: Univ of Wales Pr

Author Biography

W. H. Jackson is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Chivalry in Twelfth-Century Germany: the Works of Hartmann von Aue (1994). Silvia Ranawake is Professor of German at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Her most recent book is an edition of the work of Walther von der Vogelweide.

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
Acknowledgements	x
The Contributors	xi
Abbreviations	xii
Introduction	1	(20)
W. H. Jackson
Silvia Ranawake
Part One Reception and Appropriation: The German Verse Romances, Twelfth Century to 1300
The Western Background	21	(17)
Ingrid Kasten
The Emergence of German Arthurian Romance: Hartmann von Aue and Ulrich von Zatzikhoven	38	(16)
Silvia Ranawake
The Emergence of the German Grail Romance: Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival	54	(15)
Timothy McFarland
Fragment and Expansion: Wolfram von Eschenbach, Titurel and Albrecht, Jungerer Titurel	69	(12)
Marion Gibbs
Three Post-Classical Authors: Heinrich von dem Turlin, Der Stricker, Der Pleier	81	(17)
Rosemary E. Wallbank
Intertextuality in the Later Thirteenth Century: Wigamur, Gauriel, Lohengrin and the Fragments of Arthurian Romances	98	(19)
Matthias Meyer
Part Two Continuity and Change in the Later Middle Ages
Tristan Narratives from the High to the Late Middle Ages	117	(25)
Mark Chinca
Appendix to Chapter 7: Arthur in the Tristan Tradition	135	(7)
Volker Mertens
The Wigalois Narratives	142	(13)
Volker Honemann
The Reception of Prose: The Prosa-Lancelot	155	(11)
Elizabeth A. Andersen
Late Medieval Summations: Rappoltsteiner Parzifal and Ulrich Fuetrer's Buch der Abenteuer	166	(15)
Bernd Bastert
Lorengel and the Spruch von den Tafelrundern	181	(6)
W. H. Jackson
Part Three The Medieval Dutch Arthurian Material
The Medieval Dutch Arthurian Material	187	(44)
Bart Besamusca
Part Four Other Literary, Pictorial and Social Manifestations of Arthurian Culture
Arthurian Romance and German Heroic Poetry	231	(11)
John L. Flood
Arthurian Elements in Drama and Meisterlieder	242	(7)
John E. Tailby
King Arthur and his Round Table in the Culture of Medieval Bohemia and in Medieval Czech Literature	249	(8)
Alfred Thomas
The Medieval German Pictorial Evidence	257	(23)
James Rushing
The Arthurian Material and German Society in the Middle Ages	280	(15)
W. H. Jackson
Part Five The Legacy
Early Printed Editions of Arthurian Romances	295	(8)
John L. Flood
The Modern Reception of the Arthurian Legend	303	(21)
Ulrich Muller
Werner Wunderlich
General Bibliography	324	(5)
Index	329