Arthurian Literature - Course Bibliography 2015-16 (Autumn Term)
General
J. Stevens, Medieval Romance, 1973
Roger Middleton, (ed.) Arthurian Romance, (Nottingham, 1991)
E.D. Kennedy (ed.) King Arthur: A Casebook, 1996
W.R.J. Barron, English Medieval Romance, 1987
N.J. Lacy (ed.), The Arthurian Handbook, 1988
N.J. Lacy, The New Arthurian Encyclopedia, 1991
R.S. Loomis (ed.), Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, 1959
R.S. Loomis, The Development of Arthurian Romance, 1970
S. Knight, Arthurian Literature and Society, 1983
D.D.R. Owen, Arthurian Romance
R. Morris, The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature, 1982
Friedrich Wolfzettel, (ed.) Arthurian Romance and Gender: Conference Proceedings (Amsterdam, 1995)
Thelma Fenster (ed.) Arthurian Women: a casebook (Garland, 1996)
K. Varty (ed.) An Arthurian Tapestry, 1981
M. Wynne-Davies, Women and Arthurian Literature: Seizing the Sword, 1996
P.V. Davis & A.J. Kennedy (ed.), Rewards and Punishments in the Arthurian Romances, 1987
Alison Adams (ed.) The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance (Brewer, 1986)
V. Guerin, The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy, 1995
Norris J. Lacy ed. A History of Arthurian Scholarship (Brewer, 2006)
Beate Schmolke-Hasselman, The Evolution of Arthurian Romance (CUP, 2006)
Lori Walters ed. Launcelot and Guinevere: A Casebook (Routledge, 2002)
Alan Lupack, The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend (OUP, 2005)
Philip C. Boardman & D.P. Nastali eds. The Arthurian Annals: The Tradition in English from 1250-2000 2 vols
(OUP, 2004)
M. Victoria Guerin, The Fall of Kings and Princes: Structure and Destruction in Arthurian Tragedy (Stanford
Univ. Press, 1995)
W.R.J. Barron (ed.) The Arthur of the English: the Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature
(Univ. of Wales Press, 2001)
Christopher Baswell & William Sharpe (eds.) The Passing of Arthur (Garland, 1988)
M.B. Shichtman & J.P. Carley (eds.), Culture and the King. The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend,
1994
Richard Barber, King Arthur in Legend and History (London, 1973)
Richard Barber, The Knight and Chivalry (Longmans, 1970)
Richard Barber & Juliet Barker, Tournaments: jousts, chivalry and pageants in the Middle Ages (Boydell, 1989)
Geoffrey of Monmouth
J.S.P. Tatlock, The legendary history of Britain: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s ‘Historia regum Britanniae’ and its
early vernacular versions, 1950
R.H. Fletcher, The Arthurian Material in the Chronicles, 1966
M.J. Curley, Geoffrey of Monmouth, 1994
T. Turville-Petre, England the Nation: Language, Literature and National Identity, 1290-1340, 1996
C. Brooke, ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth as a Historian’ in C.N.L. Brooke (ed), Church and Government in the
Middle Ages (CUP, 1976)
R.M. Loomis, ‘Arthur in Geoffrey of Monmouth’ in J.J. Wilhelm & L.Z. Gross (ed.) The Romance of Arthur,
1984, 57-86.
J.J. Wilhelm, ‘Arthur in the Chronicles’, in above, 5-12.
R. Bromwich, J.O.H. Jarman & B.F. Roberts (eds.), The Arthur of the Welsh: the Arthurian Tradition in Medieval
Welsh Literature, 1991
M.R. Warren, ‘Making Contact: Postcolonial Perspectives through Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum
Britannie’, Arthuriana 8.4 (1998)
J. Gillingham, ‘The Context and Purposes of Geoffrey of Monouth’s History of the Kings of Britain’, in M.
Chibnall ed. Anglo-Norman Studies 13, Proceedings of the Battle Conference 1990 (1991)
J. Crick, ‘Geoffrey of Monmouth, prophecy and history’, Journal of Medieval History, 18 (1992)
M. Curley, ‘The History of the Kings of Britain: Arthur and his Successors’, in M.J. Curley, Geoffrey of
Monmouth (1994)
T. Turville-Petre, ‘The Story of England’, in Turville-Petre, England the Nation (1996)
F.T. Neuendorf, ‘Negotiating Feminist and Historicist Concerns: Guenevere in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia
regum Brittaniae’, in Quondam et Futurus, vol. 3, no. 2 (1993)
A.L. Furtado, ‘From Alexander of Macedonia to Arthur of Britain’, Arthuriana, 5 (1995)
M. Fries, ‘The Arthurian Moment: History and Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britannie’, Arthuriana,
8 (1998)
L. Johnson, ‘Etymologies, Genealogies and Nationalities (Again)’, in S. Forde, L. Johnson & A.V. Murray (eds.),
Concepts of National Identity in the Middle Ages, 1995
B.N. Sargent-Barr, ‘Dux Bellorum / Rex Militum / Roi Faineant. The transformations of Arthur in the 12th
Century’, in E.D. Kennedy (ed.) King Arthur. A Casebook, 1996.
F. Bogdanow, ‘The Evolution of the Theme of the Fall of Arthur’s Kingdom’, in Kennedy, King Arthur, 1996.
J.J. Wilhelm, ‘Arthur in the Latin Chronicles’, in J.J. Wilhelm & J.Z. Gross (eds.) The Romance of Arthur, 1984.
Siân Echard, ed., The Arthur of Medieval Latin literature: the Development and Dissemination of the
Arthurian Legend in Medieval Latin, 2011
Michael A. Faletra, Wales and the Medieval colonial imagination: the matters of Britain in the twelfth
century, 2014 [available online]
Victoria Flood, ‘Arthur’s Return from Avalon: Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Development of the
Legend’, Arthuriana 25.2 (2015) [available online]
Chretien de Troyes
N.J. Lacy, The Craft of Chretien de Troyes, 1980
R.S. Loomis, Arthurian Tradition and Chretien de Troyes, 1949
Donald Maddox, The Arthurian Romances of Chretien de Troyes: once and future fictions (CUP, 1991) [available
online]
P. Haidu, Aesthetic Distance in Chretien de Troyes, 1968
L.T. Topsfield, Chretien de Troyes: a study of the Arthurian romances, 1981
T. Hunt, Chretien de Troyes: Yvain (critical guides), 1986
P.S. Noble, Love and Marriage in Chretien de Troyes, 1982
Douglas Kelly (ed.) The Romances of Chretien de Troyes: a symposium, 1985
R.H. Cline, Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart, 1990
P.J.C. Field, ‘Malory and Chretien de Troyes’, Reading Medieval Studies, 1991
Douglas Kelly, The Art of Medieval French Romance, 1992
T. Artin, The Allegory of Adventure. Reading Chretien’s Erec and Yvain (London, 1974)
R.L. Krueger, ‘Love, Honour and the Exchange of Women in Yvain’, in T. Fenster (ed.) Arthurian Women (1996)
(see above)
R.L. Krueger, ‘Desire, Meaning and the Female Reader: the Problem in Chretien’s Charrete’, in Christopher
Baswell & William Sharpe (eds.) The Passing of Arthur (Garland, 1988)
P. McCracken, ‘The Body Politic and the Queen’s Adulterous Body in French Romance’, in L. Lomperis & S.
Stanbury, Feminist Approaches to the Body in Medieval Literature, 1993
Norris J. Lacy & J. T. Grimbert eds. A Companion to Chretien de Troyes (Brewer, 2005)
M.H. Jones & R. Wisbey (eds.) Chretien de Troyes and the German Middle Ages (Brewer, 1993)
E.Jane Burns & Roberta L. Krueger (eds.) Courtly Ideology and Woman’s Place in Medieval French Literature
(1985)
Albrecht Classen (ed), Discourses on Love, Marriage and Transgression in Medieval and Early Modern
Literature (Arizona, 2004)
Michael A. Faletra, Wales and the Medieval colonial imagination: the matters of Britain in the twelfth
century, 2014 [available online]
Zrinka Stahuljak, Virginie Greene, Sarah Kay, Sharon Kinoshita, Peggy McCracken, Thinking
Through Chrétien de Troyes, 2013 [available online]
Marie de France, Lanval, and Sir Thomas Chestre, Sir Launfal
Intro. to The Lais of Marie de France, trans. G. S. Burgess & K. Busby (Penguin)
P. Clifford, Marie de France, Lais, Critical Guide, 1982
E.J. Mickel, Marie de France, 1974
E.Jane Burns & Roberta L. Krueger (eds.) Courtly Ideology and Woman’s Place in Medieval French Literature
(1985)
D.Chamberlain, ‘Marie de France’s Arthurian Lais: Subtle and Political’, in M.B. Shichtman & J.P. Carley (eds.),
Culture and the King. The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend, 1994
E. Hoepffner, ‘The Breton Lais’, in R.S. Loomis (ed) Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, 1959
Intro. in A.J. Bliss (ed) Thomas Chestre, Sir Launfal, 1960
A.C. Spearing, ‘The Lanval Story’, in The Medieval Poet as Voyeur: Looking and Listening in Medieval Love
Narratives (1993), ch.5 [available online]
B.K. Martin, ‘Sir Launfal and the Folktale’, Medium Aevum, 35 (1966), 199-210
C.J. Nappholz, ‘Launfal’s Largesse’, English Language Notes, 25.3 (1988), 4-9
W.R.J. Barron (ed.) The Arthur of the English, 1999, pp.130-35
James T. Stewart, ‘Thomas Chestre’s Sir Launfal and the Knight in Need’, Arthuriana 25.2 (2015) [online]
Katherine McLoone, ‘Strange Bedfellows: Politics, Miscegenation, and Translatio in Two Lays of Lanval’,
Arthuriana 21.4 (2011) [online]
Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan
M. Chinca, Tristan, 1997
N. Thomas, Tristan in the Underworld, (Edwin Mellen)
C.S. Jaeger, Medieval Humanism in Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan and Isolde
A. Stevens & R. Wisbey eds. Gottfried von Strassburg and the Medieval Tristan Legend, Brewer, 1990
W.T.H. Jackson, The Anatomy of Love – The Tristan of Gottfired von Strassburg, 1971
Joan T. Grimbert ed. Tristan and Isolde: A Casebook (Routledge, 2002)
Will Hasty ed. A Companion to Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan (Camden House, 2002)
A.M. Rusmussen, ‘Es ist ir garet von mir’ Queen Isolde and Princess Isolde in Tristan and Isolde’, in Fenster,
Arthurian Women, 1996 (also, see above)
J.R. DiLeo, ‘The Divine Structure of Gottfried von Strassburg’s Tristan: God, Transcendence and Coincidentia
oppositorum’, Tristania, 16 (1995)
P. Meister, ‘Wounds and Healing in Gottfried’s Tristan’, Tristania, 13 (1987-8)
J.A. Schultz, ‘Clothing and Disclosing: Clothes, Class and Gender in Gottfried’s Tristan’, Tristania, 17 (1996)
A.Closs, ‘The Love Potion as a Poetic Symbol in Gottfried’s Tristan’, in Stevens & Wisby, GvS and MTL (1990)
(also, see above)
M. Wynn, ‘Gottfried’s Heroine, in Stevens & Wisby, GvS and MTL (1990) (see above).
M. Batts, ‘The role of King Marke in Gottfried’s Tristan – and elsewhere’, in Stevens & Wisbey, CVS & MTL,
(1990)
T. Kerth, ‘Marke’s Royal Decline’, in Stevens & Wisbey, GVS & MTL, (1990)
P.W. Tax, ‘Wounds and Healings: Aspects of Salvation and Tragic Love in Gottfried’s Tristan’, in Stevens &
Wisbey, GVS & MTL (1990)
M. Borwn & C.S. Jaeger, ‘Pageantry and Court Aesthetic in Tristan: the Procession of the Hunters’, in Stevens &
Wisbey, GVS & MTL (1990).
Middle English Gawain Romances
Raymond H. Thompson & Keith Busby eds. Gawain: A Casebook (Routledge, 2005)
W.R.J. Barron, The Arthur of the English (2001), ch.6.
Roger Loomis, Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, pp. 480-520.
Colleen Donnelly, ‘Aristocratic Veneer and the Substance of Verbal Bonds in The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and
Dame Ragnell and Gamelyn’, Studies in Philology 94.3 (1997)
Sheryl L. Forste-Grupp, ‘A Woman Circumvents the Laws of Primogeniture in The Weddynge of Sir Gawen and
Dame Ragnell’, Studies in Philology 99.2 (2002)
Rebecca A. Davis, ‘More Evidence for Intertextuality and Humorous Intent in The Weddynge of Syr Gawen and
Dame Ragnel’, The Chaucer Review 35.4 (2001)
Karen Hunter Trimnell, ‘“And Shold Have Been Oderwyse Understond”: The Disenchanting of Sir Gromer
Somer Joure’, Medium Ævum 71.2 (2002)
Sandy Feinstein, ‘Longevity and the Loathly Ladies in Three Medieval Romances’, Arthuriana 21.3 (2011)
Sean Pollack, ‘Border States: Parody, Sovereignty, and Hybrid Identity in The Carl of Carlisle’, Arthuriana 19.2
(2009)
Leah Haught, ‘Ghostly Mothers and Fated Fathers: Gender and Genre in The Awntyrs off Arthure’, Arthuriana
20.1 (2010)
Brett Roscoe, ‘Reading the Diptych: The Awntyrs off Arthure, Medium, and Memory’, Arthuriana 24.1 (2014)
Andrew R. Walkling, ‘The Problem of ‘Rondolesette Halle’ in The Awntyrs off Arthure’, Studies in Philology
100.2 (2003)
Rosamund Allen, ‘Place-Names in The Awntyrs Off Arthure: Corruption, Conjecture, Coincidence’, in Bonnie
Wheeler, ed. Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field (2004) [online]
The Grail Legend
P. Matarasso, The Redemption of Chivalry: A Study of the Queste del Saint Graal, 1979
F.W. Locke, The Quest for the Holy Grail: a literary study of a 13th century French Romance, 1960
R.S. Loomis, The Grail: from Celtic Myth to Christian Symbol, 1963
C. Morse, The Pattern of Judgement in the Queste and Cleanness, 1978
Emma Jung & M-L. von Franz, The Grail Legend, (tr. Andrea Dykes), 1971
W.W. Kibler (ed.), The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and transformations, 1994
Carol Dover ed. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Brewer, 2003)
Norris J. Lacy, E. Jane Burns, Carol Chase, Lancelot-Grail: The Old French Arthurian Vulgate and Post-Vulgate
in Translation (Garland, 1992), 4 vols.
Norris J. Lacy ed. The Lancelot-Grail Reader: selections from the Medieval French Arthurian cycle (Garland,
2000)
D.D.R. Owen, The Evolution of the Grail Legend, 1968
R. Cavendish, King Arthur and the Grail: The Arthurian Legends and their Meanings, 1980
D.B. Mahoney (ed.) The Grail. A Casebook (2000)
E.Jung & M-L Von Franz, ‘The Central Symbol of the Legend. The Grail as Vessel’, in Mahoney, The Grail
(2000)
J.P. Traxler, ‘Dying to get to Sarras. Perceval’s Sister and the Grail Quest’, in Mahoney, The Grail (2000)
L.N. De Looze, ‘A Story of Interpretations. The Queste del Saint Graal as Metaliterature’, in Mahoney, The Grail
(2000)
M.R. Wright, ‘Designing the End of History in the Arming of Galahad’, Arthuriana 5 (1995)
E.J. Burns, ‘Devilish Ways: Sexing the Subject in the Queste del Saint Graal’, Arthuriana 8 (1998)
R. Rossignal, ‘The Holiest Vessel: Maternal Aspects of the Grail’, Arthuriana 5 (1995)
K.M. Talarico, ‘Romancing the Grail. Fiction and Theology in the Queste del Saint Graal’, in P. Meister (ed.)
Arthurian Literature and Christianity (1999)
M.B. Shichtman, ‘Politicizing the Ineffable. The Queste del Saint Graal and Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal’, in
M.B. Shichtman & J.P. Carley (eds.) Culture and the King. The Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend
(1994)
Bonnie Wheeler, ed. Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field (2004) [online]
Joseph Goering, The Virgin and the Grail: Origins of a Legend (2005)
Ben Ramm, A Discourse for the Holy Grail in Old French Romance (2012) [online]
Lisa Cooper, ‘Bed, Boat, and Beyond: Fictional Furnishing in La Queste del Saint Graal’, Arthuriana 15.3 (2005)