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Ethics in the Arthurian legend / edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes and Evelyn Meyer.

An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Elmes, Melissa Ridley (Editor ), Meyer, Evelyn, 1969- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Woodbridge : D.S. Brewer, 2023.
Colección:Arthurian studies.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • List of contributors
  • Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Arthurian ethics before the Pentecostal oath: in search of ethical origins in Culhwch and Olwen
  • 2. Too quickly or not quickly enough, too rash and too harshly: the Arthurian court's lack of ethics in Hartmann von Aue's Erec and Iwein and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival
  • 3. The ethics of Arthurian marriage: husband vs wife in Hartmann von Aue's Iwein
  • 4. Arthurian ethics and ethical reading in the Perlesvaus
  • 5. Translation praxis and the ethical value of chivalry in the Caligula Brut
  • 6. Imperial ambitions and the ethics of power: gender, race, and the Riddarasögur
  • 7. Lowland ethics in the Arthur of the Dutch
  • 8. Contesting royal power: the ethics of good lordship, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the March of Wales
  • 9. "As egir as any lyoun": the ethics of knight-horse relationships in Lybeaus Desconus
  • 10. Malory's ethical Dinadan: moderate masculinity in a crisis of hypermasculine chivalry
  • 11. Virtus, vertues, and gender: cultivating a chivalric habitus in Thomas Malory's Tale of Sir Gareth
  • 12. Kingly disguise and (im)perception in three fifteenth-century English romances
  • 13. "Adventure? What is that?" Arthurian ethics in/and the games we play
  • 14. The ethics of a new edition of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur - and more evidence for the superiority of the Winchester Manuscript
  • 15. The ethics of writing Guinevere in modern historical fiction
  • Afterword
  • Index.