Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a
great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers
fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues.
TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
A wide range of Arthurian material is discussed here, reflecting its
diversity, and enduring vitality. Geoffrey of Monmouth's best-selling
Historia regum Britannie is discussed in the context of Geoffrey's
reception in Wales and the relationship between Latin and Welsh literary
culture. Two essays deal with the Middle English Ywain and Gawain: the
first offers a comparative study of the Middle English poem alongside
Chrétien's Yvainand the Welsh Owein, while the second considers Ywain
and Gawain with the Alliterative Morte Arthure in their northern English
cultural and political context, the world of the Percys and the
Nevilles. It isfollowed by a discussion of Edward III's recuperation of
his abandoned Order of the Round Table, which offers an intriguing
explanation for this reversal in the context of Edward's victory over
the French at Poitiers. The final essay is a comparison of fifteenth-
and twentieth-century portrayals of Camelot in Malory and T.H. White, as
both idea and locale, and a centre of hearsay and gossip. The volume is
completed with a unique and little-known medievalGreek Arthurian poem,
presented in facing-page edition and modern English translation.
Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham
University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society; David F. Johnson is
Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee.
Contributors: Christopher Berard, Louis J. Boyle, Thomas H. Crofts,
Ralph Hanna, Georgia Lynn Henley, Erich Poppe
