Bonnie Wheeler 
Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field 

Studies range over the whole field of Arthurian literature, in Europe and North America, with special focus on Malory and Morte Darthur.


Peter Field, Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor, is a distinguished Arthurian scholar (and vice-president of the International Arthurian Society) whose work has focused particularly on Malory’s
Morte Darthur. This special interest is reflected by the contributors to this volume, but a wide variety of other Arthurian and associated material is also covered in the twenty-seven studies. The chapters range over the whole field of Arthurian vernacular texts and include new studies of early French and German texts as well as an analysis of the impact of Arthurian materials on Galician-Portuguese poetry. Many provide new insights into Malory’s text and sources, and these culminate in reflections on Malory’s impact on one later American reader, Mark Twain. Collectively the chapters on Malory substantiate a the claim that Malory is a keen and critical reader of his source texts, and thathe is a powerful stylist.


Contributors BRIAN ALLEN, ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD, FANNI BOGDANOW, DEREK S. BREWER, GEOFFREY BROMILEY, HELEN COOPER, JANET M, COWEN, ROSALIND FIELD, LINDA GOWANS, DOUGLAS GRAY, PHILLIPA HARDMAN, AMELIA HUTCHINSON, EDWARD D. KENNEDY, ELSPETH M. KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, MARGARET LOCHERBIE-CAMERON, ROGER MIDDLETON, DAVID MILLS, MALDWYN MILLS, YUJI NAKAO, SHUNICHI NOGUCHI, RALPH NORRIS, AD PUTTER, RALUCA RADULESCU, FRANCOISE LE SAUX, JANE TAYLOR, NEIL E. THOMAS, KEVIN S. WHETTER, ANDREA WILLIAMS.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Foreword – Bonnie Wheeler

Professor Peter Field, An Appreciation – Margaret Locherbie-Cameron

The Grail Romances and the Old Law – Fanni Bogdanow

What did Robert de Boron really write? – Linda Gowans

On Capitalization in some Early Manuscripts of Wace’s Roman de Brut – Roger Middleton

Tristan Rossignol: the development of a text – Geoffrey Bromiley

What’s in a Name? Arthurian Name-Dropping in the
Roman de Waldef – Rosalind Field

The Enigma of the Prose
Yvain – Norris J. Lacy

Dreams and Visions in the
Perslesvaus – Andrea Williams

La Reine-Fée in the
Roman de Perceforest: Rewriting, Rethinking – Jane H. M. Taylor

The Relationship between Text and Image in Three Manuscripts of the
Estoire del Saint Graal (Lancelot Grail Cycle) – Elspeth M Kennedy ***

Wigalois and
Parcival: Father and Son Roles in the German Romance of Gawain’s Son – Neil E. Thomas

Reading between the Lines: a Vision of the Arthurian World reflected in Galician-Portuguese Poetry – Amelia Hutchinson

The Lost Beginning of the Jeaste of Syr Gawayne and the Collation of Bodlean Library MS Douce – Maldwyn Mills

Enide’s see-through Dress – Roger Middleton

A Note on the Percy Folio Grene Knight – Douglas Gray

‚False Friends‘ in the Works of the Gawain-Poet – Ad Putter

Place-Names in the The Awntyrs Off Arthure: corruption, conjecture, coincidence – Brian Allen

Lancelot as lover in the English tradition before Malory – Elizabeth Archibald

Malory and Middle English Verse Romance: The Case of Sir Tristram – Phillipa Hardman

Sir Thomas Malory’s (French) Romance and (English) Chronicle – Edward Donald Kennedy

Romantic Self-Fashioning; Three Case Studies – David Mills

Are Further Emendations Necessary? A Note on the Definite and Indefinite Articles in the Winchester Malory – Yuji Nakao

Lucius’s Exhortation in Winchester and Caxton – Ad Putter

The Historicity of Combat in Le Morte Darthur – Kevin S Whetter

Personal Weapons in Malory’s Le Morte Darthur – Derek S Brewer

’now i take uppon me the adventures to seke of holy thynges‘: Lancelot and the Crisis of Arthurian Knighthood – Raluca Radulescu

Malory’s Language of Love – Helen Cooper

P.J.C. Field’s Worshipful Revision of Malory: Making Virtue of Necessity – Shunichi Noguchi

`Old Sir Thomas Malory’s Enchanting Book‘: A Connecticut Yankee Reads Le Morte Darthur – Janet M. Cowen

Über den Autor

Dr Raluca Radulescu is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Literature, Bangor University