FAILURE IN ARTHURIAN ROMANCE

Medium Ævum ◽  
1991 ◽  
Vol 60 (1) ◽  
pp. 16
Author(s):  
KENNEDY
Keyword(s):  
Arthurian Romance

Hebraizing Arthurian Romance: The Originality of Melech Artus

Arthuriana ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 3-9 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paul R. Rovang
Keyword(s):  
Arthurian Romance

The Half-Way House of Fiction: 'Don Quixote' and Arthurian Romance

1986 ◽  
Vol 81 (3) ◽  
pp. 766
Author(s):  
Frank Pierce ◽  
Edwin Williamson
Keyword(s):  
Don Quixote ◽  
Arthurian Romance

The Dwarfs of Arthurian Romance and Celtic Tradition.

1961 ◽  
Vol 76 (1) ◽  
pp. 51
Author(s):  
Helaine Newstead ◽  
Vernon J. Harward
Keyword(s):  
Arthurian Romance

Voorbeeldige vorsten?

Queeste ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 7-41
Author(s):  
Jelmar Hugen
Keyword(s):  
Social Integration ◽  
Thirteenth Century ◽  
Social Order ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Arthurian Romance ◽  
Middle Dutch

Abstract This article examines the concept of kingship in the Middle Dutch Roman van Walewein, a thirteenth-century Arthurian romance from Flanders, by analyzing the roles of the six different kings in the work from different perspectives. The rulers are studied based on their depiction within the story in relation to historical views on kingship, their actions in relation to the narrative’s plot, and finally their role as king in relation to the narrative’s hero, Walewein. This analysis lays bare a pattern in which problematic aspects of kingship are connected to the different rulers, resulting in a lack of social order that needs to be restored by Walewein, whom in doing so proves his excellence and fitness to rule as a king himself. These problematic aspects include a lack of measure from the kings, the frustration of social integration at their courts, and finally their common use of the ‘don contraignant’ motif in a negative manner. In this light, I argue that the Roman van Walewein can be read as a type of ‘mirror for princes’.

Modern Language Scholarship: An Enquiry

PMLA ◽  
1923 ◽  
Vol 38 (S1) ◽  
pp. lxvi-lxxxiv
Author(s):  
William Albert Nitze
Keyword(s):  
Old French ◽  
Language Teacher ◽  
Arthurian Romance ◽  
Modern Language

In choosing this text from my favorite Old French poet, I have no designs on my audience. Be undisturbed; the Red Knight of Arthurian romance shall not obtrude his countenance here and it is indifferent to me—on this occasion—whether there are fairy-mistresses or not. Nor am I, as some of you might think, making the ambitious attempt of defending anew the Pierian Spring. Poetry today needs no defence, unless it be the défense d'imprimer, which applies to us all, poets and philologs alike, when our knowledge and inspiration lag, and the product is not worthy of the producer. My task is at once more prosaic and more definite. I propose merely to stand my ground, as a Modern Language teacher and scholar; to state, in my own way, what I think we are about, as one convinced of the value of our profession in itself and to others—despite the blight of misgivings and protests, from one quarter and another, which periodically threatens us with ruin. This, then, is the Spring which your Chairman—like so many Chairmen before him—would defend and, if possible, protect against contamination.

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