The Arthur of the Iberians : Arthurian legends in the Spanish and Portuguese worlds / edited by David Hook.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hook, David, editor.

Series:

Arthurian literature in the Middle Ages ; 8.

Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages ; 8

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Arthurian romances.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (549 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cardiff, [Wales] : University of Wales Press, 2015.

Summary:

This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician); it follows the spread of Arthurian material overseas with the seaborne expansion of Spain and Portugal from Iberia into America and Asia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and, as well as examining the specifically Arthurian texts themselves, it traces the continued influence of the medieval Arthurian material and its impact on the society, literature and culture of the Golden Age and beyond, including its presence in Don Quixote, the influential Spanish Arthurian-inspired romance Amadís de Gaula, and in Spanish ballads. Such was its influence that we find an indigenous American woman called 'Iseo' (Iseult); and an Arthurian story appeared in an indigenous language of the Philippines, Tagalog, as late as the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed May 29, 2015).

ISBN:

9781783162437

1783162430