Table of Contents

Chivalry, Cistercianism and the Lancelot-Grail Cycle - Richard Barber
The Making of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle - Elspeth Kennedy ***
A Question of Time: Romance and History - Richard Trachsler
The Lancelot-Grail Cycle and the Post-Vulgate Cycle - Fanni Bogdanow
Interlace and the Cyclic Imagination - Douglas Kelly
The Gateway into the Lancelot-Grail Cycle: L'Estoire del Saint Graal -
The Merlin and its Continuations - Annie Combes
The Book of Lancelot - Carol Dover
Varied Repetitions: Prose and Verse Charrette - Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner
La Queste del Saint Graal: from semblance to veraie semblance - Emmanuèle Baumgartner
The Sense of an Ending: 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 Stones
The Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England: Malory and his Predecessors - Helen Cooper
Lancelot in Italy - Donald L Hoffman
Lancelot in Germany - Hans-Hugo Steinhoff
The Spanish Lancelot-Grail Heritage - Michael Harney
Neither Sublime Nor Galant: The Portuguese Demanda do Santo Graal - Haquira Osakabe
The Lancelots of the Lowlands - Frank Brandsma
Manuscripts of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle in England and Wales: Some Books and their Owners - Roger Middleton
Selective Bibliography - Carol Dover

About the Author

DOUGLAS KELLY is Emeritus Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.

Reviews

A welcome addition to Cycle scholarship.
*FRENCH REVIEW*

Reliable, insightful...[as] an introduction to European literature's first major work of prose fiction, this is the place to start. Most of us serious about Arthuriana will want the book.
*ARTHURIANA*

A welcome collection of essays.
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