A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (Arthurian Studies) by Carol Dover
By Carol Dover
The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings jointly the tales of Arthur with these of the Grail, a conjunction of fabrics that maintains to fascinate the Western mind's eye this present day. Representing what's most likely the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction within the West, it additionally exemplifies the flavor for large cyclic compositions that formed a lot of eu narrative fiction for 3 centuries.A significant other to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the 1st finished quantity committed completely to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays during this quantity, all by means of across the world identified students, find the paintings in its social, historic, literary, and manuscript contexts. as well as addressing serious matters within the 5 texts that make up the Cycle, the participants show to trendy readers the attraction that the textual content should have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling. This quantity becomes typical examining for students, scholars, and extra normal readers drawn to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, medieval romance, Malory reports, and the Arthurian legends.Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA, MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES, HELEN COOPER, CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE, HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER is affiliate professor of French and director of undergraduate stories, Georgetown collage, Washington DC.
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169–80. ’ In particular the stories of Utherpendragon, the account of Arthur’s youth, the Saxon and Roman wars, and the treason of Mordred have all been told by ‘historians’ such as Geoffrey of Monmouth and Wace. There is no doubt that the Lancelot-Grail draws on this historiographic model, at least in part, but it does so in order to create something entirely new. Ostensibly historical, yet overtly merveilleux, the Lancelot-Grail Cycle shifts from story to history and combines the two modes of narration as well as the two kinds of source material.
On this journey, Galehot sees his castles crumble and has strange dreams and visions. Arthur’s clerks are sent for and interpret what he has seen as foretelling his death within three years because of his love for Lancelot; they make no reference to a Grail quest to come. These events preparing the way for Galehot’s death are combined with a short version of the False Guinevere episode in which the queen is accused of being an impostor and is defended against this charge by Lancelot. This version of the romance brings the story to an end with Lancelot’s decision to return to Arthur’s court, and with Galehot’s death as the result of a false rumour of his friend’s death.
1–2 (Orleans, 1995–99). See the useful list of over sixty manuscripts in Jung, Légende de Troie, pp. 340–52. Daniel Poirion, ‘Romans en vers et romans en prose,’ in Grundriss der romanischen Literaturen des Mittelalters, IV, 1, Le roman jusqu’à la fin du XIIIe siècle (Heidelberg, 1978), p. 79 [74–81]. Erich Köhler, ‘Zur Entstehung des altfranzösischen Prosaromans,’ Wissenschaftliche Zeitschrift der Friedrich- Schiller-Universität Jena 5 (1955–56); rpt. in E. Köhler, Trobadorlyrik und höfischer Roman: Aufsätze zur französischen und provenzalischen Literatur des Mittelalters (Berlin, 1962), pp.