The Arthur of the Low Countries: The Arthurian Legend in Dutch and Flemish Literature (Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages) - Hardcover

Besamusca

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1786836823 ISBN 13: 9781786836823

Publisher: University of Wales Press, 2021

Synopsis

In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence, and the movement of texts and manuscripts (west to east) reflects its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands. Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval Arthurian material..

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About the Author

Bart Besamusca is Professor of Middle Dutch Textual Culture from an International Perspective in the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies at Utrecht University. Frank Brandsma is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature (Middle Ages) in the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies at Utrecht University.

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Wales Press
• Publication date: 2021
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1786836823
• ISBN 13: 9781786836823
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Besamusca, Bart, Brandsma, Frank