Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General Editors’ Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance
- 1 The Church and the Otherworld: Sacred Spaces in the Matière de Bretagne and Medieval Ireland
- 2 Sacred Spaces: the Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Construction of Narrated Space in Chrétien’s Conte du Graal
- 3 Perceiving the Way: Sacred Spaces and Imaginary Pilgrimage in the Vulgate Cycle Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory’s ‘Tale of the Sankgreal’
- 4 Affirming Absence and Embracing Nothing: on the Paradoxical Place of Heterosexual Sex in Medieval French Verse Romance
- 5 Spaces of Remorse: Penitential Allusions in Iwein
- 6 The Spatial Narratives of Salvation and Damnation in Wigalois and the Prose Lancelot
- 7 ‘Fantoum and Fayryȝe’: Visions of the End of Arthurian Britain
- 8 The Tomb of the Kings: Imperial Space in Arthur’s Camelot
- Contents of Previous Volumes: Details of Earlier Titles are Available from the Publishers
General Editors’ Preface
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- General Editors’ Preface
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance
- 1 The Church and the Otherworld: Sacred Spaces in the Matière de Bretagne and Medieval Ireland
- 2 Sacred Spaces: the Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic Construction of Narrated Space in Chrétien’s Conte du Graal
- 3 Perceiving the Way: Sacred Spaces and Imaginary Pilgrimage in the Vulgate Cycle Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory’s ‘Tale of the Sankgreal’
- 4 Affirming Absence and Embracing Nothing: on the Paradoxical Place of Heterosexual Sex in Medieval French Verse Romance
- 5 Spaces of Remorse: Penitential Allusions in Iwein
- 6 The Spatial Narratives of Salvation and Damnation in Wigalois and the Prose Lancelot
- 7 ‘Fantoum and Fayryȝe’: Visions of the End of Arthurian Britain
- 8 The Tomb of the Kings: Imperial Space in Arthur’s Camelot
- Contents of Previous Volumes: Details of Earlier Titles are Available from the Publishers
Summary
The years 2020–2021 mark a significant change at Arthurian Literature: after a decade under the editorial00201aegis of Elizabeth Archibald and David F. Johnson, the journal is changing editors. This, the 36th volume, is the first to appear under the editorship of Megan G. Leitch, Cardiff University, and K. S. Whetter, Acadia University, Nova Scotia. The new editors gratefully acknowledge the accomplishments of our predecessors, and especially our immediate predecessors, Professors Archibald and Johnson, and look forward to working with our contributors to maintain the journal's high standards.
This volume also constitutes one of the journal's special thematic issues, in this case on the theme of space and place in Arthurian literature, a topic proposed by Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer; accordingly, two of these guest editors also co-authored the Introduction to the volume's contents. Our thanks to the guest editors and their contributors for bringing this thematic issue to the journal.
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- Arthurian Literature XXXVISacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance, pp. vii - viiiPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2021