Handbook of Arthurian Romance: King Arthur's Court in Medieval European Literature

Acknowledgments\nTable of contents\nList of Contributors\nList of Abbreviations\nIntroduction: King Arthur’s Court in Medieval European Literature\nSection I. The Context of Arthurian Romance\nHistorical Context: The Middle Ages and the Code of Chivalry\nThe International Arthurian Society and Arthurian Scholarship\nThe Evolution of the Critical Canon\nText-Types and Formal Features\nThe Arthur-Figure\nThe Manuscript Context of Arthurian Romance\nReadership and Audience\nSection II. Approaching Arthurian Romance: Theories and Key Terms\nChronology, Anachronism and Translatio Imperii\nHistoriography: Fictionality vs. Factuality\nRewriting: Translation, Continuation and Adaptation\nIntertextuality\nNew Philology/Manuscript Studies\nText and Image\nMaterial Studies\nThe Natural World\nGender/Queer Studies\nOrality, Literacy and Performativity of Arthurian Texts\nMedievalism\nPost-Colonial Studies\nSection III. Reading Arthurian Romances: Content, Method and Context\nHeinrich von dem Türlin’s Diu Crône: Life at the Arthurian Court\nHerr Ivan: Chivalric Values and Negotiations of Identity\nLa Tavola Ritonda: Magic and the Supernatural\nChrétien de Troyes’ Lancelot, ou le Chevalier de la charrette: Courtly Love\nSir Percyvell of Galles: A Quest for Values\nPeredur son of Efrawg: The Question of Translation and/or Adaptation\nThe Roman van Walewein and Moriaen: Travelling through Landscapes and Foreign Countries\nThe Iberian Post-Vulgate Cycle: Cyclicity in Translation\nWolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival: Searching for the Grail\nChrétien de Troyes’ Erec et Enide: Women in Arthurian Romance\nMerlin: Christian Ethics and the Question of Shame\nDe ortu Walwanii and Historia Meriadoci: Technologies in/of Romance\nJaufre: Genre Boundaries and Ambiguity\nIndex