Purdie / Royan The Scots and Medieval Arthurian Legend

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-84615-426-3
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, Band 61, 170 Seiten

Reihe: Arthurian Studies

First full-length exploration of the Arthurian legend in Scotland.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Purdie, Rhiannon

Royan, Nicola

Weitere Mitwirkende

King, Andrew

Archibald, Elizabeth

Wood, Juliette

Royan, Nicola

Bawcutt, Priscilla

Mainer, Sergi

Summerfield, Thea

Hunt, Tony

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Mittelalterliche, neuzeitliche Archäologie (Europa)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: `Tartan Arthur?' [with Nicola Royan] -
Introduction: `Tartan Arthur?' [with Rhiannon Purdie] - Nicola Royan
Where does Britain end? The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Scotland and Wales - Juliette Wood
The Testimony of Writing: Pierre de Langtoft and the Appeals to History, 1291-1306 - Thea Summerfield
The Fine Art of Faint Praise in Older Scots Historiography - Nicola Royan
The Roman de Fergus Parody or Pastiche?/I> - Tony Hunt
Lancelot of the Laik: Sources, Genre and Reception - Elizabeth Archibald
Sir Lamwell in Scotland - Priscilla Bawcutt
The Search for Scottishness in Golagros and Gawane -
`Of an Uncouthe Stede': the Scottish Knight in Middle English Arthurian Romances -
Dead Butchers and Fiend-like Queens: Literary and Political History in The Misfortunes of Arthur and Macbeth - Andrew King
Reinventing Arthur: Reresentations of the Matter of Britain in Medieval Scotland and Catalonia - Sergi Mainer

Über Autor(innen)

Archibald Elizabeth:
ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society.Bawcutt Priscilla:
PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus