Silvia Ranawake, The Emergence of German Arthurian Romance
Timothy McFarland, The Emergence of German Grail Romance
Marion Gibbs, Fragment and Expansion
Rosemary Wallbank, Three Post-Classical Authors
Matthias Meyer, Intertextuality in the Later Thirteenth Century
Mark Chinca, Tristan Narratives from the High to the Late Middle Ages
Volker Mertens, Appendix: Arthur in the Tristan Tradition
Volker Honemann, The Wigalois Narratives
Elizabeth A. Andersen, The Reception of Prose
Bernd Bastert, Late Medieval Summations
W. H. Jackson, Lorengel and the Spruch von den Tafelrundern
Bart Besamusca, The Medieval Dutch Arthurian Material
John L. Flood, Arthurian Romance and German Heroic Poetry
John E. Tailby, Arthurian Elements in Drama and Meisterlieder
Alfred Thomas, King Arthur and his Round Table in the Culture of Medieval Bohemia and in Medieval Czech Literature
James Rushing, The Medieval German Pictorial Evidence
W. H. Jackson, Arthurian Material and German Society in the Middle Ages
John L. Flood, Early Printed Editions of Arthurian Romances
Ulrich Müller and Werner Wunderlich, The Modern Reception of the Arthurian Legend
“ . . . the reader is presented with a vast scope of Arthuriana in the German and Dutch literature, along with the Czech (Bohemian) literature (Alfred Thomas), an area, mostly ignored by other scholars. The other pleasant feature proves to be the editors’ willingness to incorporate the representatives from the late Middle Ages, recognizing them as being as important as those from the high Middle Ages . . . the reader is well served with a volume of excellent articles written by outstanding German and British medievalists. The authors have successfully summarized our current knowledge and presented it in a highly readable and pleasant manner.” –Stvdi Medievali
“An exemplary contribution to an important series of survey volumes, this collection of nineteen essays with a substantial, genuinely synthesising introduction offers a magisterial overview of Arthurian literature . . . This rich and reliable synthesis will be an essential orientation and reference for student and scholarly readers.” –Forum for Modern Language Studies
“ . . . an excellent source for a thoroughgoing introduction to the field . . . The volume is excellently edited and handsomely produced, printed on glossy paper and with the most readable typeface. The editors and the University of Wales Press should be commended for an outstanding job.” –Journal of English and Germanic Philology
“The editors and contributors to this enterprise have produced a volume with wide appeal; it is essential for specialists in medieval German literature, but it provides a valuable introduction to the material for a much wider audience, including specialists in other areas of medieval literature. Specialists in French literature, for instance, will find fascinating the evidence for the reception of France romance. In addition to these specialised audiences, the collection will be extremely useful to amateurs, giving them solid information and good orientation in complex material” –Folklore
“The inclusive nature of this collection leads to a broader base and to new insights on the corpus of texts examined. The volume fulfils not only the goals of the series but also opens additional paths for future investigations in Arthurian studies.” –Monatshefte
“ . . . it is a great pleasure to find a work of outstanding scholarship so well presented: binding, paper, design, all meet the high standards of the past. In content, too, the work is comprehensive and readable, convincing us that we are enjoying the fruits of the latest conjectures and discoveries.” —www.gwales.com
W. H. Jackson is Senior Lecturer in German at the University of St Andrews. He is the author of Chivalry in Twelfth-Century Germany: the Works of Hartmann von Aue (1994). Silvia Ranawake is Professor of German at Queen Mary and Westfield College, University of London. Her most recent book is an edition of the work of Walther von der Vogelweide.
