Beschreibung:
This book provides a comprehensive and informed survey of Arthurian literature in Dutch, aimed at readers who want to learn about the Arthurian tradition as it took shape in a language and culture with which they are not yet familiar.
In the medieval Low Countries (modern-day Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material (like Chrétien’s Conte du Graal and the Prose Lancelot), but also created romances of their own, like Walewein. This book provides a current overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research that it has provoked. Geographically, the region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence, and the movement of texts and manuscripts (west to east) reflects its position, as revealed by chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands. Three chapters on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances form the core of the book, augmented by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles, and on the post-medieval Arthurian material..
PrefaceAcknowledgementsThe ContributorsAbbreviationsGuidelines for the ReaderIntroduction - Bart Besamusca and Frank Brandsma1 The Cultural and Historical Context of the Low Countries -Bram Caers and Mike Kestemont2 French Arthurian Literature in the Low Countries - Keith Busby and Martine Meuwese3 The Manuscripts - Bart Besamusca4 King Arthur in the Historiography of the Low Countries - Thea Summerfield5 Translations and Adaptations of French Verse Romances: Tristant, Wrake van Ragisel, Ferguut, Perchevael, Torec - Marjolein Hogenbirk and David F. Johnson6 Indigenous Arthurian Romances: Walewein, Moriaen, Ridder metter mouwen, Walewein ende Keye, Lanceloet en het hert met de witte voet - Simon Smith and Roel Zemel7 Translations and Adaptations of French Prose Romances, Including the Lancelot Compilation - Frank Brandsma8 Arthurian Literature of the Rhineland - Jürgen Wolf9 The Arthurian Legacy - Geert van IerselGeneral BibliographyIndex of ManuscriptsGeneral Index