| Description |
xvi, 574 pages : 8 plates. ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
The Arthur of history / Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson -- Arthur in early Welsh verse / Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson -- The Welsh Myrddin poems / A.O.H. Jarman -- Culhwch and Olwen and Rhonabwy's dream / Idris Llewelyn Foster -- The Welsh triads / Rachel Bromwich -- The oral diffusion of the Arthurian legend / Roger Sherman Loomis -- The legend of Arthur's survival / Roger Sherman Loomis -- Geoffrey of Monmouth / John Jay Parry and Robert A. Caldwell -- Wace / Charles Foulon -- Layamon's Brut / Roger Sherman Loomis -- The Breton lais / Ernest Hoepffner -- The origin and growth of the Tristan legend / Helaine Newstead -- The early Tristan poems / Frederick Whitehead -- Gottfried von Strassburg / W.T.H. Jackson -- Chŕetien de Troyes / Jean Frappier -- Gereint, Owein, and Peredur / Idris Llewelyn Foster -- The additions to Chŕetien's Perceval / Albert Wilder Thompson -- Wolfram's Parzival / Otto Springer -- The work of Robert de Boron and the Didot Perceval / Pierre le Gentil -- Perlesvaus / William Albert Nitze -- The origin of the Grail legends / Roger Sherman Loomis -- The Vulgate cycle / Jean Frappier -- The vulgate Merlin / Alexandre Micha -- The Suite du Merlin and the post-vulgate Roman du Graal / Fanni Bogdanow -- The Livre d'Artus / Frederick Whitehead and Roger Sherman Loomis -- The prose Tristan / Eugène Vinaver -- Miscellaneous French prose romances / Cedric E. Pickford -- Miscellaneous French romances in verse / Alexandre Micha -- The troubadors / Rita Lejeune -- Jaufré / Paul Remy -- Arthurian literature in Spain and Portugal / María Rosa Lida de Malkiel -- Arthurian influences on Italian literature from 1200 to 1500 / Antonio Viscardi -- Hartmann von Aue and his successors / Hendricus Sparnaay -- The Dutch romances / Hendricus Sparnaay -- Scandinavian literature / Phillip M. Mitchell -- The Latin romances / Roger Sherman Loomis -- The English rimed and prose romances / Robert W. Ackerman -- The English alliterative romances / J.L.N. O'Loughlin -- Gawain and the Green Knight / Laura Hibbard Loomis -- Sir Thomas Malory / Eugéne Vinaver -- Arthurian influence on sport and spectacle / Roger Sherman Loomis |
| Analysis |
Arthurian romances History and criticism |
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Literature, Medieval History and criticism |
| Notes |
Bibliographical footnotes |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical reference and index |
| Subject |
Arthur, King.
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Arthurian romances.
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Arthurian romances -- History and criticism.
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Comparative literature -- Themes, motives.
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Kings and rulers in literature.
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Knights and knighthood in literature.
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Literature, Medieval -- History and criticism.
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| Genre/Form |
Romances.
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| Author |
Loomis, Roger Sherman, 1887-1966.
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| LC no. |
60000110 |
| ISBN |
0198115881 |
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