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The book of Lancelot : the Middle Dutch Lancelot compilation and the medieval tradition of narrative cycles / Bart Besamusca ; translated by Thea Summerfield.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Besamusca, Bart.
- Series:
- Arthurian studies 0261-9814 ; 53.
- Arthurian studies, 0261-9814 ; 53
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Lancelot (Prose romance).
- Dutch literature--To 1500--History and criticism.
- Dutch literature.
- Lancelot (Legendary character)--Romances--History and criticism.
- Lancelot.
- Lancelot (Legendary character).
- Romances.
- Arthurian romances--History and criticism.
- Arthurian romances.
- Civilization, Medieval, in literature.
- Grail--Romances--History and criticism.
- Grail.
- Knights and knighthood in literature.
- Grail--Romances.
- Physical Description:
- ix, 210 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2003.
- Summary:
- The highly intriguing Middle Dutch Lancelot Compilation is a collection of ten Arthurian verse romances compiled around 1320. The compiler adapted already existing texts and brought them together in an ordered sequence. Although the compilation is one of the most important Middle Dutch works that have come down to us, it is little known outside the Low Countries. In this first full-length English study of the compilation, the Middle Dutch work is analysed and compared with French narrative cycles (MS BN fr. 1450, Chantilly MS 472, MS BN 112), Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur, and Ulrich Fuetrer's Buch der Abenteuer. The introductory chapter covers the study of cyclicity, the literary context of the Lancelot Compilation, and the manuscript tradition; the ten romances are then studied individually; and the final chapter is devoted to the comparison of the Lancelot Compilation with the French, English and German cycles.
- Contents:
- Jacques d'Armagnac, Micheau Gonnot and MS BN fr. 112 1
- The study of cyclicity 3
- The literary context 5
- The codex 8
- Genesis 14
- Plan 17
- 2 The core of the Lancelot Compilation 19
- Lanceloet 19
- Before the Grail Quest 21
- Perchevael and Hestor 29
- Queeste vanden Grale 30
- The Quest for the Grail 32
- Perchevael's ancestral lands and Gariet's captivity 39
- Arturs doet 43
- The downfall of Arthur's realm 44
- The war against the Romans 51
- 3 Romances before the Queeste vanden Grale 57
- Perchevael 57
- Perchevael and the Grail 60
- Walewein, the Grail and other knights of the Round Table 63
- Moriaen 73
- Moriaen and Walewein in a world in decline 75
- Acglavael's son 84
- 4 Romances after the Queeste vanden Grale 93
- Wrake van Ragisel 93
- Walewein the courtly lover 96
- The damsel of Galastroet, the diminutive king and Lanceloet 99
- Ridder metter mouwen 106
- The hero and love 108
- Lanceloet's beloved and Ywein's lion 114
- Walewein ende Keye 117
- Exemplary Walewein 119
- Ic and daventure 121
- Lanceloet en het hert met de witte voet 122
- Walewein as Lanceloet's protector 123
- Keye's return 125
- Torec 127
- The road to the crown 130
- Melions 133
- 5 The Lancelot Compilation as a narrative cycle 137
- The concept of translatio imperii 137
- Narrative-cycle characteristics 139
- Texts 140
- The manuscript 140
- Protagonists 141
- Cyclic signals between texts 142
- Cyclic signals within texts 145
- Organic cyclicity 147
- French, English and German narrative cycles 149
- MS BN fr. 1450 150
- Chantilly MS 472 151
- MS BN fr. 112 153
- Thomas Malory 154
- Ulrich Fuetrer 158
- The Lancelot Compilation and the tradition: a comparison 161
- Compositional concepts 161
- Sources and their usage 170
- Imposing structure 175
- Narrative techniques 181
- The essence of the Lancelot Compilation 185
- Coherence 186
- Ambivalence 187.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-204) and index.
- ISBN:
- 085991769X
- OCLC:
- 51042887
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