Arthurian Literature and Christianity
Subtitle: Notes from the Twentieth Century (Garland Reference Library of the Humanities)
Edition: 1 edition
Publisher: Routledge
Published: August 1, 1999
Language: eng
Format: Library binding
Number of pages: 225
ISBN-13: 9780815332626
Subjects: Literary studies: classical, early & medieval; Literary Criticism; Christianity; Oral And Folk Literature; Fiction; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Medieval; Literary Criticism & Collections / General; Christianity and literature; Fairy Tales, Folklore & Mythology; Arthurian romances; History and criticism
First sentence: In 1839 Lady Charlotte Guest began publishing English translations of a medieval Welsh cycle to which she gave the name the Mabinogion ('tales for children'), but which is now called the Mabinogi ('tales of a hero's coming of age').