The Arthur of the Germans

by Ranawake, S. A.; Jackson, W. H.

• ISBN13: 9780708324486
• ISBN10: 0708324487
• Edition: Reprint
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-02-15
• Publisher: Univ of Wales Pr

Summary

A volume in a comprehensive series exploring Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages, The present volume being a thorough survey of Arthurian themes in medieval German and Dutch literature, comprising contributions by nineteen scholars on various aspects such as socio-historical interpretatons and intertextuality. New edition.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. x
The Contributors	p. xi
Abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Reception and Appropriation: The German Verse Romances, Twelfth Century to 1300
The Western Background	p. 21
The Emergence of German Arthurian Romance: Hartmann von Aue and Ulrich von Zatzikhoven	p. 38
The Emergence of the German Grail Romance: Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival	p. 54
Fragment and Expansion: Wolfram von Eschenbach, Titurel and Albrecht, Jüngerer Titurel	p. 69
Three Post-Classical Authors: Heinrich von dem Türlin, Der Strieker, Der Pleier	p. 81
Intertextuality in the Later Thirteenth Century: Wigamur, Gauriel, Lohengrin and the Fragments of Arthurian Romances	p. 98
Continuity and Change in the Later Middle Ages
Tristan Narratives from the High to the Late Middle Ages	p. 117
Appendix to Chapter 7: Arthur in the Tristan Tradition	p. 135
The Wigalois Narratives	p. 142
The Reception of Prose: The Prosa-Lancelot	p. 155
Late Medieval Summations: Rappoltsteiner Parzifal and Ulrich Füetrer's Buch der Abenteuer	p. 166
Lorengel and the Spruch von den Tafelrundem	p. 181
The Medieval Dutch Arthurian Material
The Medieval Dutch Arthurian Material	p. 187
Other Literary, Pictorial and Social Manifestations of Arthurian Culture
Arthurian Romance and German Heroic Poetry	p. 231
Arthurian Elements in Drama and Meisterlieder	p. 242
King Arthur and his Round Table in the Culture of Medieval Bohemia and in Medieval Czech Literature	p. 249
The Medieval German Pictorial Evidence	p. 257
The Arthurian Material and German Society in the Middle Ages	p. 280
The Legacy
Early Printed Editions of Arthurian Romances	p. 295
The Modern Reception of the Arthurian Legend	p. 303
General Bibliography	p. 324
Index	p. 329
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