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Publisher
Vintage Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"Featuring stories by a bestselling, cross-genre assortment of some of the most exciting writers working today, an anthology of gender-bent, queered, race-bent, and inclusive retellings from the vast lore surrounding King Arthur, Camelot, and the Knights of the Round Table. The stories are so iconic that just a name, a word, conjures romance and betrayal, chivalry and magic. These are legends so embedded in our culture that they feel real; that as...
Series
Garland reference library of the humanities volume 585
Publisher
Garland Pub
Pub. Date
1986.
Language
English
Series
Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie volume Band 363
Publisher
De Gruyter
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
Français
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
First appearing around 1400, The Alliterative Morte Arthur, or The Death of King Arthur, is one of the most widely beloved and spectacularly alliterative poems ever penned in Middle English. Now, from the internationally acclaimed translator of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, comes this magisterial new presentation of the Arthurian tale, rendered in unflinching and gory detail.
Publisher
Films for the Humanities & Sciences
Pub. Date
[1993]
Language
English
Description
Examines the blend of history, mythology, and religion that contributes to the development of the Arthurian legend. Discusses the principal tales and their meanings, with particular attention to the search for the Holy Grail.
Language
English
Description
A collection of three medieval English poems, translated by Tolkien for the modern-day reader and containing romance, tragedy, love, sex and honour. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Pearl are two poems by an unknown author written in about 1400. Sir Gawain is a romance, a fairy-tale for adults, full of life and colour; but it is also much more than this, being at the same time a powerful moral tale which examines religious and social values. Pearl...
