Arthurian Literature is established as a leading publication for research articles of monograph length on subjects of perennial interest to Arthurians. This title serves as an Index to the first ten volumes, representing the years 1980-1990. It is useful for Arthurians and other scholars with an interest in medieval and later literature.
Contributors are: Graham Anderson, David Blamires, Ruth Bottigheimer, Derek Brewer, Mary Brockington, Anna Chaudhri, Hilda Ellis Davidson, Robin Gwyndaf, Bengt Holbek, David Hunt, Reimund Kvideland, Patricia Lysaght, Neil Philip, James Riordan, Pat Schaefer, Tom Shippey, and Joyce Thomas.
With an Introduction, Interpretive Essay and BibliographyTHE LETTERS OF PERCHTA AND ANEZKA offer an illuminating insight into how two aristocratic women in fifteenth-century Bohemia saw themselves and their lives. The central topic of this collection is Perchta's expression, in letters to her father, of her deep unhappiness at his choice of husband for her, in which her expectations of respect and companionship in marriage clearly emerge. This...
Told here as a unified, coherent narrative, the Grail legend reasserts its relevance as one of the great works of imaginative literature of the middle ages. Nigel Bryant's previous Arthurian books include "The High Book of the Grail (Perlesvaus)", "Chretien de Troyes' Perceval and its Continuations", and "Robert de Boron's Merlin and the Grail".
Margaret of Oingt was born around 1240 into a noble family in the French Beaujolais region, and became prioress of the Carthusian charterhouse of Poletains, visionary and mystic, her writings are intelligent and humorous. Includedhere are the Page of Meditations, on sin and salvation, the Mirror, a vision of Christ, the Life of the Virgin Saint Beatrice of Ornacieux, an exemplary text, and letters and stories, including comments on her problem...
