num_pages: 284
description: The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle ) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries.A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work in its social, historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts that make up the Cycle , the contributors convey to modern readers the appeal that the text must have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling. This volume will become standard reading for scholars, students, and more general readers interested in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle , medieval romance, Malory studies, and the Arthurian legends. RICHARD BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA, MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES,HELEN COOPER, CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE, HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER is associate professor of French and director of undergraduate studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.Table of ContentsChivalry, Cistercianism and the Lancelot-Grail Cycle - Richard BarberThe Making of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle - Elspeth Kennedy ***A Question of Romance and History - Richard TrachslerThe Lancelot-Grail Cycle and the Post-Vulgate Cycle - Fanni BogdanowInterlace and the Cyclic Imagination - Douglas KellyThe Gateway into the Lancelot-Grail L'Estoire del Saint Graal -The Merlin and its Continuations - Annie CombesThe Book of Lancelot - Carol DoverVaried Prose and Verse Charrette - Matilda Tomaryn BrucknerLa Queste del Saint Graal : from semblance to veraie semblance - Emmanuèle BaumgartnerThe Sense of an La Mort le roi Artu - Norris J. Lacy'Mise en page' in the French Lancelot-Grail : The First Hundred and Fifty Years of the Illustrative Tradition - Alison StonesThe Lancelot-Grail Cycle in Malory and his Predecessors - Helen CooperLancelot in Italy - Donald L HoffmanLancelot in Germany - Hans-Hugo SteinhoffThe Spanish Lancelot-Grail Heritage - Michael HarneyNeither Sublime Nor The Portuguese Demanda do Santo Graal - Haquira OsakabeThe Lancelots of the Lowlands - Frank BrandsmaManuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Some Books and their Owners - Roger MiddletonSelective Bibliography - Carol Dover
language: English
title: A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
publisher: BOYE6