Research Catalog

Title

The Arthur of the Low Countries : the Arthurian legend in Dutch and Flemish literature / edited by Bart Besamusca and Frank Brandsma.

Publication

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2021.

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Additional Authors

• Besamusca, Bart
• Brandsma, Frank

Description

x, 249 pages : maps; 25 cm.

Summary

In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien's Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence, and the movement of texts and manuscripts (West to East) reflects its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands. Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval Arthurian material.

Series Statement

Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages ; vol. 10

Uniform Title

Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages ; 10.

Subject

• Arthur, King > In literature
• Arthur, King
• To 1500
• Dutch poetry > To 1500 > History and criticism
• Epic poetry, Dutch > History and criticism
• Arthurian romances > History and criticism
• French poetry > Translations into Dutch > History and criticism
• Arthurian romances
• Dutch poetry
• Epic poetry, Dutch
• Literature

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

Introduction / Bart Besamusca and Frank Brandsma -- The cultural and historical context of the Low Countries / Bram Caers and Mike Kestemont -- French Arthurian literature in the Low Countries / Keith Busby and Martine Meuwese -- The manuscripts / Bart Besamusca -- King Arthur in the historiography of the Low Countries / Thea Summerfield -- Translations and adaptations of French verse romances: Tristant, Wrake van Ragisel, Ferguut, Perchevael, Torec / Marjolein Hogenbirk and David F. Johnson -- Indigenous Arthurian romances: Walewein, Moriaen, Ridder metter mouwen, Walewein ende Keye, Lanceloet en het hert met de witte voet / Simon Smith and Roel Zemel -- Translations and adaptations of French prose romances, including the Lancelot compilation / Frank Brandsma -- Arthurian literature of the Rhineland / Jürgen Wolf -- The Arthurian legacy / Geert van Iersel.

Call Number

JFF 21-514

ISBN

• 9781786836823
• 1786836823

OCLC

1230912039

Title

The Arthur of the Low Countries : the Arthurian legend in Dutch and Flemish literature / edited by Bart Besamusca and Frank Brandsma.

Publisher

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages ; vol. 10

Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages ; 10.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Added Author

Besamusca, Bart, editor. Editor

Brandsma, Frank, editor. Editor

Other Form:

ebook version : 9781786836847

Research Call Number

JFF 21-514