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  • The Arthurian Handbook

    Second Edition

    Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and the**Holy ... Read more

    $98.99 CAD

  • The Romance of Arthur

    An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation

    Edited by Norris Lacy, James Wilhelm ...
    The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm’s classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition.This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian literature, and is expanded to cover:key authors such as Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas of Britain, as well as Arthurian texts by women and more ... Read more

    $119.99 CAD

  • Text and Intertext in Medieval Arthurian Literature

    Edited by Norris J. Lacy ...
    First published in 1996. Intertextuality the phenomenon is as old as literature itself. And to medievalists in particular, it was a critical commonplace long before the term was coined: we have routinely recognized that, during the Middle Ages, texts consistently borrowed from one another and from the traditions they all shared. Those borrowings can take the form of thematic echoes, of the ... Read more

    $104.99 CAD

  • Reading Fabliaux

    Series series Garland Library of Medieval Literature
    First published in 1993. This volume is th author's observations of his reading of Fabliaux in order to observe their materials, methods and to evaluate the effect of those methods. He looks at 150 texts in order to uncover the indivdual fabliau, rather than treat them as a whole genre. ... Read more

    $31.99 CAD

  • Medieval Arthurian Literature

    A Guide to Recent Research

    Edited by Norris Lacy ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Arthurian Literature
    The focus of this book is medieval vernacular literature in Western Europe. Chapters are written by experts in the area and present the current scholarship at the time this book was originally published in 1996. Each chapter has a bibliography of important works in that area as well. This is a thorough and reliable guide to trends in research on medieval Arthuriana. ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • The New Arthurian Encyclopedia

    New edition

    First published in 1996. Now updated with a new information-packed 40-page Supplement covering the years 1990-1995, this unique Encyclopedia highlights the World of King Arthur from its origins in Dark Age Britain to the present day, when Arthurian novels, films, and music continue to appear around the world at an astonishing rate. The Supplement, which provides five full years of coverage not ... Read more

    $170.99 CAD

  • A Middle French Vowing Poem

    A Middle French Vowing Poem

    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1992, this text discusses Les Voeux du Heron, a short text, comprising only 442 lines that was popular in the late Middle Ages but is virtually unknown today. This book includes and English translation, as well as a reconstruction of Manuscript U, published in its entirety for the first time. ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • The Romance of Tristan

    Template Subtitle

    Edited by Norris J. Lacy ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    Published in 1989: A translation of Beroul's twelfth century Tristran from the Old French. Discussion of the author is included, but since nothing is known of him (or them) the biography is limited. His literary style and historical (or legendary) influence are well surveyed. ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

  • Perceval/Parzival

    A Casebook

    Edited by Arthur Groos, Norris J. Lacy ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    This volume in the Arthurian Characters and Themes series treats the fascinating character of Perceval, the naive and flawed but gifted youth who becomes the Grail hero in some texts and yet is eclipsed in others by Galahad. Also includes eight musical examples. ... Read more

    $102.99 CAD

  • Poetics of Love in the Middle Ages

    Texts and Contexts

    This volume examines the treatment and expression of love in medieval literature and art. These nineteen essays, contributed by recognized authorities on medieval romantic expression, consider a wide variety of texts from the following cultures: French, Arabic, Latin, Hispanic, Hebrew, Provencal, and German. Teachers and students of medieval literature will find in this well-researched book cogent ... Read more

    $87.99 CAD

  • Arthurian Women

    A Casebook

    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    Featuring three original and 14 classic essays, this volume examines literary representations of women in Arthuriana and how women artists have viewed them. The essays discuss the female characters in Arthurian legend, medieval and modern readers of the legend, modern critics and the modern women writers who have recast the Arthurian inheritance, and finally women visual artists who have used the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • King Arthur

    A Casebook

    Edited by Edward Donald Kennedy ...
    Series series Arthurian Characters and Themes
    Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD