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	King Arthur - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the late prose romances the love affair between Arthur's champion, Sir Lancelot, and the Queen, Guinevere, becomes the central reason for the collapse of the Arthurian realm.
		In the romances, Arthur is killed in his last battle, the Battle of Camlann, in which he fought against the forces of Mordred.
		Arthurian Resources Articles on (and bibliographic guides to) the early Arthurian tradition and the origins of the legend, utilising the latest scholarship.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Arthur (3365 words)

	Matter of Britain - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Arthurian legend or the Matter of Britain is a name given collectively to the legends that concern the Celtic and legendary history of the British Isles, especially those centered on King Arthur and the knights of the Round Table.
		Various Celtic deities have been identified with characters from Arthurian literature as well: Morgan le Fay was often thought to have originally been the Irish goddess Mórrígan.
		The Arthurian literary cycle is the best known part of the Matter of Britain.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Arthurian_cycle (886 words)

	§1. Early Welsh Tradition. XII. The Arthurian Legend. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The ...
		No student of Arthurian origins, however, can fail to be impressed by the strange disproportion between the abundance of Arthurian place-names in the British islands and the amount of early British literature, whether in English or in the insular Celtic tongues, dealing with the Arthurian legend.
		For, when all is told, Arthurian romance owed its immense popularity in the thirteenth century to its ideal and representative character, and to its superiority over the other stock romantic matters as a point de repère for every kind of literary excursion and adventure.
		Every nation embraced and adorned the popular romance of Arthur and the knights of the Round Table; their names were celebrated in Greece and Italy; and the voluminous tales of Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram were devoutly studied by the princes and nobles, who disregarded the genuine heroes and heroines of antiquity.”
	www.bartleby.com /211/1201.html (1023 words)

	Arthurian Romance (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Arthurian legend was important to the colony in Brittany.
		Arthurian legend came back home from France, because of Britons in exile over the centuries (or Bretons), with the Norman invasion of Saxon England, 1066.
		Like Charlemagne in the "Matter of France" romances, Arthur loses his warrior dignity and becomes a master of ceremony.
	www.wsu.edu /~delahoyd/medieval/arthurian.html (527 words)

	Timeless Myths: Arthurian Legends (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Arthurian Legends contain tales and knightly romances from Geoffrey of Monmouth to Sir Thomas Malory.
		The Age of Chivalry are collection of tales and romances found in the Arthurian Legends.
		Arthurian Legends is a division of Timeless Myths.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian (525 words)

	isp605pathfinder
		Medieval Romance is a literary genre, written between the twelfth and fifteenth centuries, containing elements of chivalry and courtly love.
		This pathfinder is designed as an introductory exploration of Medieval and Arthurian Romances, and will focus only on the French and English texts that are most commonly studied in medieval literature courses rather than the whole range of narrative possibilities that fall under the larger umbrella.
		A broad survey of the many branches and subgenres of romance from the 12th to the 16th century, including the evolution and adaptation and characteristics of lays, chronicles, epics, chansons de geste, allegory, and other prose and verse forms.
	www.albany.edu /~jd7111/isp605/pathfinder.html (3469 words)

	My Thesis
		It was a romance of huge proportions, and it meshed the early historical works with the later narratives of Wace and Layamon along with the rich chivalric romances of Chrtien de Troyes.
		In the romance, instead of the queen leaving the king for Mordred, the queen is attacked and the king must run to her rescue in true courtly love style.
		"Arthurian Heraldry." Avalon to Camelot, 1 (1984), 11-12.
	www.westnet.com /~levins/thesis.html (14271 words)

	Arthurian Romance Project
		Guinevere is frequently abducted in romance, sometimes by King Melwas of Somerset, sometimes by Mordred and sometimes by the marauding tribes from the north.
		It is told in the Mabinagian that Guinevere had a sister named Gwenhwyvach in french romance that she had an identical half-sister who, for a while, took her place, and in the German Diu Crohe that she had a brother named Gotesrin.
		During the thirteenth century, when the Grail was fully integrated with Arthurian legend in the group of prose, it was established that the Round Table, modeled on the Grail and with the empty place, was made by Merlin for Uther Pendragon, King Arthur’s father.
	www.auroraweb.com /homework/English9/arthur.htm (8407 words)

	Arthurian Romance - Book Information
		This witty and accessible book traces the history of Arthurian romance from medieval to modern times, explaining its enduring appeal.
		The European Flourishing of Arthurian Romance; Lancelot, Tristan, Parzival.
		The Arthurian Sleep and The Romantic Revival; Tennyson's Idylls of The King.
	www.blackwellpublishing.com /book.asp?ref=0631233202 (211 words)

	Term Paper on Arthurian Romance
		Arthurian Romance Arthurian romance has been changed over and over again throughout the years in order to keep up with the “audience of the moment.” Throughout history Arthurian romance was and still is being used in many different forms.
		The Celtic’s Arthurian romance was much different from that of the French.
		Arthurian romance will always being changed to meet the expectations, taste, and interest of its “audience of the moment.”
	www.swiftpapers.com /essay/Arthurian_Romance-34714.html (184 words)

	Medieval and Arthurian Resources: A Bibliography
		The Tale of Balain, from the Romance of the Grail, a 13th Century French Prose Romance.
		Ditmas, E. Tristan and Iseult in Cornwall: The Twelfth-century Romance by Beroul Re-told from the Norman French.
		The Gonzaga of Mantua and Pisanello's Arthurian Frescoes.
	www.library.wwu.edu /ref/subjguides/humanities/medieval/medarth.htm (4835 words)

	ENGL 2100
		The main purpose of the romance was to exemplify chivalry.
		Though all of the elements of Keen's definition are manifested in the the medieval romance, courtoisie, is, in relation to the romance, the most intriguing.
		Most Arthurian romances feature a young squire who must prove his worth at fighting or his love for lady; or a disenfranchised or unnamed knight who must fight to win recognition, or to regain his kingdom or the good graces of his lady.
	www.llp.armstrong.edu /5800/arthno.html (1319 words)

	History of FRENCH LITERATURE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		The Franks, as a Germanic tribe, enjoy a powerful epic tradition (from Beowulf to the Nibelungenlied) in which heroism is the stock-in-trade of fierce warriors beset by often monstrous dangers.
		Even more significant, he is the first to adapt courtly love (developed by the troubadours in their lyrics) to the more sustained pleasures of narrative and adventure.
		The Arthurian legends, transplanted from Wales to France in the 12th century, return amplified to Britain 300 years later.
	www.historyworld.net /wrldhis/PlainTextHistories.asp?historyid=ac81 (1813 words)

	The Arthurian Bookshop
		Arthurian legend is the substantial (and endlessly fascinating) prose tale Culhwch ac Olwen, which may, in its present form, date from as early as the 10th-century and is certainly the oldest Arthurian tale in existence.
		It is, like 'Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages' which it was designed to partially replace, a collaborative work, bringing together scholarly articles on every conceivable aspect of the 'Arthur of the Welsh' from some of the leading authorities in the world on these topics.
		The Arthurian sections are short but sweet, with parallels drawn between the Arthurian legend in Wales and that of Fionn in Ireland.
	www.arthuriana.co.uk /shop/arthurshop.htm (3302 words)

	abouttexts.html (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Roger Sherman Loomis is regarded as one of the most prolific and important scholars ever to deal with the Arthurian legend, and he is known principally as the foremost proponent of theories concerning the influence of Celtic legend and literature on Arthurian lore.
		Although certainly somewhat dated, Studies is nonetheless an excellent resource simply due to the amount of data on fairy mythology and Arthurian lore that Paton has compiled, cross-referenced, and analyzed, especially for those interested in Morgan le Fay in all of her myriad appeareances within the lore.
		By construing Arthurian legend somewhat loosely, so as to allow the term to also include other material more or less closely associated with Arthur and his court, it is possible to use Welsh literature as a lens by which to illuminate the Arthurian legend.
	www.louisville.edu /~sebyer01/abouttexts.html (1246 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Books, Subjects, Poetry, Drama & Criticism, History & Criticism, ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		These seven romances have been chosen not only for their literary importance but also for the light they shed on other important Middle English...
		In this selection of plays by the editor, the reader is taken into the romantic world of the gallant knights of the round table and their courageous and chivalrous deeds, fair maidens, castles steeped in history, the quest for the holy grail, and tragic love for Guinevere.
		Composed by an unknown author in early thirteenth-century France, The Quest of the Holy Grail is a fusion of Arthurian legend and Christian symbolism, reinterpreting ancient Celtic myth as a profound spiritual fable.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/tg/browse/-/275087 (976 words)

	Bibliography of Arthurian Literatures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		Joseph of Arimathea: A Romance of the Grail
		The Romance of Perceval in Prose: a translation of the 'E' manuscript of the Didot Perceval.
		The romance Erec has the same title that of it French counterpart, while Iwein is the German version of Yvain or the Knight of the Lion.
	www.timelessmyths.com /arthurian/lib-arthur.html (2564 words)

	Arthurian Romance I: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Study Questions)
		Arthurian Romance I: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
		Note how Middle English alliterative verse resembled and differed from its Old English models (NA 19) and be able to identify the parts of the Middle English alliterative line as well as the bob and wheel in the opening lines of the poem, NA 157-8.
		At the end of the poem, the Green Knight declares that Gawain is the best of all Arthurian knights; this opinion is shared by the Arthurian court but not by Gawain.
	cla.calpoly.edu /~dschwart/engl512/sggk.html (971 words)

	Comics and Arthurian Romance
		What's more, romances were not real books: real books were written in Latin, for learned men to study, while romances were written in the everyday "romance" languages, for mere entertainment.
		One of the reasons why some stories do not survive in their original form is not that they were unpopular, but the opposite: the stories were so popular that versions felt to be old-fashioned were updated, re-worked to suit a modern taste.
		Nonetheless, the Matter of Britain (as the Arthurian material, in its broadest sense, is known) does function in much the same way as the established "universe" of the comics companies.
	www.shadowgallery.co.uk /home5.html (2549 words)

	Mystical-WWW - The Arthurian A 2 Z listing M
		In Arthurian legend this character is known as the 'King of Cornwall', England, husband of 'Lady Belle Isoult' (See Isolt), son of 'Elyzabeth' according to 'Malory', or 'Blanscheflur' in the work of 'Gottfried von Strassburg'.
		The romances of the medieval period the French 'Vulgate Cycle' became a major influence on all later developments of the story, some of which solicit the help of 'Taliesin' (See Taliesin) and also 'Galahad' (See Galahad) to secure the Queen's release.
		As the Fata Morgana character in the Arthurian romances she is also referred to as the 'fairy Morgana' or 'fata morgana', and in this form is associated with visions.
	www.mystical-www.co.uk /arthuriana2z/m.htm (6496 words)

	The Evolution of Arthurian Romance - Cambridge University Press
		Updated with a new foreword and a supplementary bibliography, this study serves as a contribution to both reception history, examining the medieval response to Chrétien's poetry, and genre history, suveying the evolution of Arthurian verse romance in French.
		Beate Schmolke-Hasselmann's study was first published in German in 1985, but her radical argument that we need urgently to redraw the lines on the literary and linguistic map of medieval Britain and France is only now being made available in English.
		Arthurian literature in French and its significance for England; Bibliography; Index.
	www.cambridge.org /catalogue/catalogue.asp?isbn=052141153X (217 words)

	King Arthur Bibliography
		Arthur of Albion, an Introduction to the Arthurian Literature and Legends of England.
		Jarman, A. "The Merlin Legend and the Welsh Tradition of Prophecy." The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature.
		Roberts, Brynley F. "Geoffrey of Monmouth, Historia Regum Britanniae, and Brut Y Brenhinedd." The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature.
	mason.gmu.edu /~rutledge/arthurbibl.html (1876 words)

	Informal Bibliography of Arthurian Literature and Art
		Arthurian Legend and Literature: An Annotated Bibliography, I: The Middle Ages.
		Entwhistle, W.J. Arthurian Legend in the Literatures of the Spanish Peninsula.
		Camelot Regained: The Arthurian Revival and Tennyson, 1800-1849.
	academics.vmi.edu /english/arth-bib.html (2090 words)

	Curt Leviant, King Artus: A Hebrew Arthurian Romance of 1279
		The rest of the slim volume is a commentary on the origins and contents of the text, plus a detailed bibliography of sources in several languages.
		The Hebrew Romance is itself a translation into Hebrew of part of a lost Italian version of an Old French manuscript of tales of King Arthur.
		Though Leviant does not himself use the word, it is obvious that The Hebrew Romance is a form of "localization." This term, made popular in the software field, means the whole set of linguistic and cultural changes made to a text, a piece of software or whatever to adapt it to a target audience.
	www.greenmanreview.com /book/book_leviant_kingartus.html (594 words)

	DAWNFLIGHT Awards & Reviews
		Arthurian Association of Australia Newsletter: Dawnflight, "Kim Headlee's first novel is such an accomplished piece of storytelling magic and lovely characterisation.
		Note: Kim helped the Arthurian Association of Australia decide upon a date for their annual Camelot Day, November 14, the feast-day of the Celtic Saint Dyfrig (or Dubric), whom some scholars, including Kim, believe was a prototype for the Merlin legends.
		Romancing the Celtic Soul: "Although it will appeal to those who love a good romance, Dawnflight harkens back to the traditional historicals from authors such as Barbara Erskine, Sharon Kay Penman and Dorothy Dunnett.
	home.usaa.net /~kimheadlee/dawnflight/reviews.htm (2385 words)

	EN 349 Arthurian Literature
		The purpose of this course is to acquaint the student with the facts behind the legend of King Arthur, with the main features and characters of Arthurian romance, and with the development of the legend through history.
		Understand the historical and cultural contexts in which the Arthurian stories were first composed.
		The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature.
	www.moval.edu /Faculty/adderleym/Arthur/syllabus.htm (1190 words)

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