The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature offers an up-to-date and student-friendly approach to teaching the literature of the Arthurian tradition. With a team of contributing editors creating new translations of classic texts, and a distinctive balance of familiar and lesser-known Arthur legends, the anthology is an authoritative and highly teachable resource. A companion website allows for greater flexibility without expanding the print book, and helpful introductions and notes support student readers throughout the anthology.
The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature
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The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature
Readings listed in green are included on the anthology’s companion website.
1. Front matter
- a. Acknowledgements & Thanks
- b. List of figures
- c. Abbreviations
- d. Timeline
2. General Introduction
3. Texts
- a. Welsh poetry
- i. Early Welsh texts
- ii. Priddeu Annwn
- b. Early Latin texts
- c. Culhwch and Olwen
- d. Geoffrey of Monmouth
- i. Deeds of the British
- Book 8
- Stonehenge and the Crowning of Uther Pendragon
- Uther and Igerna
- The Death of Uther
- Book 9
- The Crowning of Arthur
- Arthur fights the Saxons
- Arthur marries Guinevere
- Peacetime passtimes
- Emperor Lucius
- Book 10
- Arthur’s Dream
- Giant of Mont St. Michel
- Various battles with Rome
- Mordred’s Betrayal
- Book 11
- Arthur and Mordred
- Book 8
- ii. Vita Merlini
- i. Deeds of the British
- e. Wace – Brut
- i. 8565-8822: Uther and Ygerne; conception, disguise, Merlin.
- ii. 9587-9798: Arthur’s court and the Round Table
- iii. 9905-10104: the Conquest of France and the defeat of Frollo.
- iv. 10437-10954: Arthur’s coronation to the arrival of the Roman ambassadors
- v. 11173-11188: Modret’s adulterous desire for the Queen.
- vi. 11239-11606: Arthur’s dream and the Giant of Mont St Michel
- vii. 13010-13298: Mordred, Guinevere, and the Death of Arthur
- f. Chrétien de Troyes – The Knight of the Cart
- g. Marie de France
- i. Lanval
- ii. Chevrefoil
- h. Lai of Melion
- i. Béroul – Tristan
- i. The Ambiguous Oath
- ii. King Arthur’s Court
- iii. The Malpas
- j. Layamon – Brut
- k. Gunnlaugr Leifsson – Merlínússpá
- l. Wolfram von Eschenbach – Parzival
- m. Lancelot-Grail cycle
- Lancelot
- i. Lancelot’s arrival at court
- ii. beginning of the love affair with Guinevere,
- iii. Sir Galahalt the Haut Prince
- iv. Galahalt’s suicide from grief.
- Holy Grail
- i. Galahad’s arrival at court
- ii. beginning of the quest
- iii. Bors’ quest
- iv. end of the quest in Sarras.
- Lancelot
- n. Heldris of Cornwall – Roman de Silence
- i. Nature vs. Nurture
- ii. Merlin sections
- o. Morien
- p. Melech Artus
- q. Alliterative Morte Arthure
- r. Geoffrey Chaucer – “Wife of Bath’s Tale”
- s. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (parallel text)
- i. Modern English
- ii. Middle English
- t. Stanzaic Morte Arthur
- u. Thomas Chestre – Sir Launfal
- v. Hans Rosenplüt – The Crown
- w. Prose Merlin
- i. Conception of Merlin
- ii. Uther & Ygerne
- iii. Merlin & Nimiane
- x. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
- y. The Old Knight
- z. Thomas Malory – Le Morte Darthur
- 1. Tale I
- i. Uther & Igraine
- ii. Sword in the Stone
- iii. The Wedding & Round Table
- iv. Pentecostal Oath
- v. Merlin & Nenyve
- vi. Arthur & Accolon
- vii. Pelleas & Ettarde
- 2. Tale V
- i. Palomides
- 3. Tale VI
- i. Galahad’s arrival
- 4. Tale VII
- i. Elaine of Ascolat
- ii. Knight of the Cart
- iii. The Tale of Sir Urry
- 5. Tale VIII
- i. Rumours
- ii. War with Lancelot
- iii. Mordred
- iv. Death of Arthur
- vi. Death of Guinevere & Lancelot
- 1. Tale I
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