The Scots and medieval Arthurian legend:

First full-length exploration of the Arthurian legend in Scotland. Scotland's importance in Arthurian legend is undeniable: it was the traditional homeland of key figures such as Gawain; its landscape is still dotted with Arthurian associations, and many modern attempts to locate a historical A...

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Weitere Verfasser: Purdie, Rhiannon 1968- (HerausgeberIn), Royan, Nicola 1970- (HerausgeberIn)
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Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Cambridge D.S. Brewer 2005
Schriftenreihe:Arthurian studies
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Zusammenfassung:First full-length exploration of the Arthurian legend in Scotland. Scotland's importance in Arthurian legend is undeniable: it was the traditional homeland of key figures such as Gawain; its landscape is still dotted with Arthurian associations, and many modern attempts to locate a historical Arthur end up in Scotland. Nevertheless, Scotland's complex relationship with Arthurian legend has been surprisingly neglected, and this volume is the first to be dedicated to it. The essays cover the period between the appearance inca. 1136 of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae and the accession of James VI to the English throne as James I in 1603 - five centuries of precarious Scottish independence during which the relationship of theScots and the English, as refracted through Arthurian legend, is at its most turbulent and changeable. The approaches are both literary and historical, covering such topics as the direct responses of early Scottish historians to the challenges set by Geoffrey's work, Arthurian literature written in Scots, the circulation of other Arthurian material in Scotland, and the portrayal of Scotland and the Scots in English and French Arthurian texts
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Introduction : tartan Arthur? / Rhiannon Purdie and 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? / 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 / Rhiannon Purdie -- Of an uncouthe stede : the Scottish knight in Middle English Arthurian romances / Cory J. Rushton -- Dead butchers and fiend-like queens : literary and political history in The misfortunes of Arthur and Macbeth /Andrew King -- Reinventing Arthur : representations of the matter of Britain in medieval Scotland and Catalonia /Sergi Mainer
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ISBN:9781846154263
DOI:10.1017/9781846154263

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