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Studies of Arthurian Legend in Medieval Literature & History
Alcock, Leslie. Arthur’s Britain: History and Archaeology A.D. 367-634. London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 1971.
Allen, Judson Boyce. “The Medieval Unity of Malory’s Morte Darthur.” Mediaevalia 6 (1980): 279-309.
Allen, Mark. “The Image of Arthur and the Idea of King.” Arthurian Interpretations 2.2 (Spring 1988): 1-16.
Archibald, Elizabeth, and A.S.G. Edwards, eds. A Companion to Malory. Cambridge; Rochester: D.S. Brewer, 1996.
Ashe, Geoffrey. “A Certain Very Ancient Book.” Speculum 56 (1981): 301-23. [on Geoffrey of Monmouth]
Ashe, Geoffrey. The Discovery of King Arthur. New York: Anchor/Doubleday, 1985.
Ashe, Geoffrey. “The Origins of the Arthurian Legend.” Arthuriana 5.3 (Autumn 1995): 1-24.
Ashe, Geoffrey, ed. The Quest for Arthur’s Britain. New York: Praeger, 1968.
Atkinson, Stephen C.B. “‘Now I Se and Undirstonde’: The Grail Quest and the Education of Malory’s Reader.” In The Arthurian Tradition: Essays in Convergence. Mary Flowers Braswell and John Bugge, eds. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1988, pp. 90-108.
Batt, Catherine. “Malory and Rape.” Arthuriana 7.3 (Fall 1997): 78-99.
Batts, Michael. Gottfried von Strassburg. New York: Twayne, 1971.
Beal, Rebecca S. “Arthur as the Bearer of Civilization: The Alliterative Morte Arthure, ll. 901-19.” Arthuriana 5.4 (Winter 1995): 33-44.
Benson, Larry. Art and Tradition in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1965.
Benson, Larry. Malory’s Morte Darthur. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1976.
Benton, John Frederic. “Clio and Venus: An Historical View of Medieval Love” in The Meaning of Courtly Love. Ed. F.X. Newman. Albany: SUNY Press, 1968, 19-42.
Benton, John Frederic. “The Court of Champagne as a Literary Center.” Speculum 36 (1961): 551-591.
Bogdanov, Fanni. “An Interpretation of the Meaning and Purpose of the Vulgate Queste del Saint Graal in the Light of the Mystical Theology of St Bernard,” in The Changing Face of Arthurian Romance: Essays on Arthurian Prose Romances in Memory of Cedric E. Pickford. Alison Adams et al., eds. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1986 (Arthurian Studies, 16): 23-46.
Brewer, Elisabeth. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: Sources and Analogues. 2nd ed. Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK; Rochester, NY, USA: D.S. Brewer, 1992.
Bromwich, Rachel, A.O.H. Jarman, and Brynley F. Roberts, eds. The Arthur of the Welsh: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval Welsh Literature. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1991.
Bruce, James Douglas. The Evolution of Arthurian Romance from the Beginnings Down to the Year 1300. 2 vols. 2nd edition. Baltimore, Johns Hopkins Press, 1928.
Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn. “Le Chevalier de la Charette” in The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: A Symposium. Douglas Kelly, ed. Lexington, KY: French Forum Publishers, 1985, 132-181.
Bruckner, Matilda Tomaryn. “An Interpreter’s Dilemma: Why Are There So Many Interpretations of Chrétien’s Chevalier de la Charette?” Romance Philology 40 (1986-87): 159-180.
Bullough, Vern L. “Medieval Concepts of Adultery.” Arthuriana 7.4 (Winter 1997): 5-15.
Bumke, Joachim. Courtly Culture: Literature and Society in the High Middle Ages. Thomas Dunlap, trans. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1991.
Burns, E. Jane. Arthurian Fictions: Rereading the Vulgate Cycle. Columbus: Ohio State University Press, 1985.
Busby, Keith. Gauvain in Old French Literature. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1980.
Calin, William. “Defense and Illustration of Fin’ Amor: Some Polemical Comments on the Robertsonian Approach.” The Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Literature.
Ed. Nathaniel B. Smith and Joseph T. Snow. Athens, GA: U. of Georgia Press, 1980, 32-48.
Cannon, Christopher. “Malory’s Crime: Chivalric Identity and the Evil Will.” In Medieval Literature and Historical Inquiry: Essays in Honor of Derek Pearsall. Ed. David Aers. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2000, pp. 159-83.
Cherewatuk, Karen. “The Saint’s Life of Sir Launcelot: Hagiography and the Conclusion of Malory’s Morte Darthur.” Arthuriana 5.1 (Spring 1995): 62-78.
Cross, T.P. and W.A. Nitze. Lancelot and Guinevere: A Study on the Origins of Courtly Love. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1930.
Curtis, Renée L. “The Perception of the Chivalric Ideal in Chrétien de Troyes’s Yvain.” Arthurian Interpretations 3.2 (Spring 1989): 1-22.
Curtis, Renée L. “Physical and Mental Cruelty in the Lais of Marie de France.” Arthuriana 6.1 (Spring 1996): 22-35.
Dean, Christopher. Arthur of England: English Attitudes to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1987.
Dillon, Bert. A Malory Handbook. Boston: G. K. Hall, 1978.
Donahue, Dennis P. “The Darkly Chronicled King: An Interpretation of the Negative Side of Arthur in Lawman’s Brut and Geoffrey’s Historia.” Arthuriana 8.4 (Winter 1998): 135-147.
Dumville, David. “Sub-Roman Britain: History and Legend.” History 62 (1977): 173-191.
Eckhardt, Caroline D. “Prophecy and Nostalgia: Arthurian Symbolism at the Close of the English Middle Ages.” In The Arthurian Tradition: Essays in Convergence. Mary Flowers Braswell and John Bugge, eds. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1988, pp. 109-126.
Entwhistle, W.J. Arthurian Legend in the Literatures of the Spanish Peninsula. London: Dent, 1925.
Everett, Dorothy. “Layamon and the Earliest Middle English Alliterative Verse.” In Essays on Middle English Literature. Patricia Kean, ed. Oxford: Clarendon, 1955, pp. 23-45.
Farrell, Thomas J. “Life and Art, Chivalry and Geometry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Arthurian Interpretations 2.2 (Spring 1988): 17-33.
Fehrenbacher, Richard. “The Domestication of Merlin in Malory’s Morte Darthur.’ Quondam et Futurus 3.4 (Winter 1993): 1-16.
Ferrante, Joan M. The Conflict of Love and Honor: The Medieval Tristan Legend in France, Germany, and Italy. The Hague: Mouton, 1973.
Field, Peter J.C. “Caxton’s Roman War.” Arthuriana 5.2 (Summer 1995): 31-73.
Field, Peter J.C. The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory. Arthurian Studies #29. Cambridge: DS Brewer, 1993.
Field, Peter J. C. “Malory and the French Prose Lancelot.” Bulletin of the John Rylands University Library of Manchester. 75 (1) Spring 1993: 79-102.
Field, Peter J. C. Malory: Texts and Sources. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1998.
Field, Peter J.C. “Malory and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell.” Archiv fur das studium der neuren sprachen und literaturen 219 (1982): 374-381.
Field, Peter J.C. Romance and Chronicle: A Study of Malory’s Prose Style. Bloomington, Indiana: University of Indiana Press, 1971.
Flood, John L. “Arthurian Romance and German Heroic Poetry.” The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature. W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake, eds. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2000. 231-41.
Frappier, Jean. Chrétien de Troyes: The Man and His Work. Raymond J. Cormier, trans. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1982 (originally published in 1957).
Fries, Maureen. “The Arthurian Moment: History and Geoffrey’s Historia regum Britanniae.” Arthuriana 8.4 (Winter 1998): 88-99.
Fries, Maureen. “Boethian Themes and Tragic Structure in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae.” In The Arthurian Tradition: Essays in Convergence. Mary Flowers Braswell and John Bugge, eds. Tuscaloosa and London: University of Alabama Press, 1988, pp. 29-42.
Fries, Maureen. “From the Lady to the Tramp: The Decline of Morgan le Fay in Medieval Romance.” Arthuriana 4.1 (Spring 1994): 1-18.
Fulton, Helen. “A Woman’s Place: Guinevere in the Welsh and French Romances.” Quondam et Futurus 3.2 (Summer 1993): 1-25.
Furtado, Antonio. “From Alexander of Macedonia to Arthur of Britain.” Arthuriana 5.3 (Autumn 1995): 70-86.
Gardner, Edmund G. Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. London: Dent, 1930.
Glowka, Arthur Wayne. “Malory’s Sense of Humor.” Arthurian Interpretations 1.1 (Fall 1986): 39-46.
Goodman, Jennifer R. Malory and Caxton’s Prose Romances of 1485. New York: Garland, 1987.
Hoffman, Donald. “The Ogre and the Virgin: Varieties of Sexual Experience in Malory’s Morte Darthur.” AInt 1.1 (Fall 1986): 19-25.
Howard, Donald, and C.K. Zacher, eds. Critical Studies of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1968.
Howlett, D. R. “The Literary Context of Geoffrey of Monmouth: An Essay on the Fabrication of Sources.” Arthuriana 5.3 (Autumn 1995): 25-69.
Jackson, W. H. “The Arthurian Material and German Society in the Middle Ages.” The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature. W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake, eds. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2000. 280-92.
Jackson, W.T.H. The Anatomy of Love: The Tristan of Gottfried von Strassburg. New York: Columbia University Press, 1971.
Jung, E., and M-L Von Franz. The Grail Legend. Boston: Sigo, 1986.
Keen, Maurice. Chivalry. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 1984.
Kellogg, Judith L. “Economic and Social Tensions Reflected in the Romances of Chrétien de Troyes.” Romance Philology XXXIX (Aug. 1985): 1-21.
Kelly, Douglas. The Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: A Symposium. Lexington: French Forum, 1985.
Kelly, Douglas. Sens and Conjointure in the “Chevalier de la Charette”. The Hague and Paris: Mouton and Co., 1966.
Kennedy, Beverly. “Adultery in Malory’s Le Morte d’Arthur.” Arthuriana 7.4 (Winter 1997): 63-91.
Kennedy, Beverly. Knighthood in the Morte d’Arthur. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1992.
Kennedy, Beverly. “Notions of Adventure in Malory’s Morte Darthur.” Arthurian Interpretations 3.2 (Spring 1989): 38-59.
Kennedy, Elspeth. Lancelot and the Grail: A Study of the Prose Lancelot. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986.
Kibler, William W., ed. The Lancelot-Grail Cycle: Text and Transformations. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1994.
Knepper, Wendy. “Theme and Thesis in Le Chevalier de la Charrete.” Arthuriana 6.2 (Summer 1996): 54-68.
Knight, Stephen. Arthurian Literature and Society. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983. [treats both medieval and modern versions–see below]
Lacy, Norris J. The Craft of Chrétien de Troyes: An Essay on Narrative Art. Leiden: Brill, 1980.
Lacy, Norris J., Douglas Kelly, and Keith Busby, eds. The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes. 2 vols. Amsterdam: Rodopi, 1987-88.
Lagorio, Valerie M., and Mildred Leake Day, eds. King Arthur Through the Ages. 2 vols. New York: Garland, 1990. [treats both medieval and modern versions–see below]
Lambert, Mark. Malory: Style and Vision in Le Morte Darthur. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1975.
Littleton, Scott, and Linda Malcor. From Scythia to Camelot: A Radical Reassessment of the Legends of King Arthur, the Knights of the Round Table, and the Holy Grail. New York: Garland, 1994.
Loomis, Roger Sherman, ed. Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959; 2nd edition, 1961.
Loomis, Roger Sherman. The Development of Arthurian Romance. New York: Harper and Row, 1963.
Lumiansky, R.M. Malory’s Originality. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1963.
McCarthy, Terence. An Introduction to Malory. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1991.
MacDonald, Aileen A. The Figure of Merlin in the Thirteenth Century French Romance. New York: Edwin Mellen Press, 1990.
McDonald, William C. “Wolfram’s Grail.” Arthuriana 8.1 (Spring 1998): 22-34.
Maddox, Donald. The Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: Once and Future Fictions. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.
Mahoney, Dhira B. “Hermits in Malory’s Morte Darthur: The Fiction and the Reality.” Arthurian Interpretations 2.1 (Fall 1987): 1-26.
Mandel, Jerome. “Elements in the Charrette World: The Father-Son Relationship.” Modern Philology 62 (1964): 97-104.
Mandel, Jerome. “Proper Behavior in Chretien’s Charrette: The Host-Guest Relationship.” The French Review 48 (1975): 683-89.
Mathewson, Jeanne T. “Sir Gawain and the Medieval School of Comedy.” Arthurian Interpretations 15.2 (Spring 1984): 42-52.
McFarland, Timothy. “The Emergence of the German Grail Romance: Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival.” The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature. W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake, eds. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2000. 54-68.
Meister, Peter. “Arthurian Literature as a Distorted Model of Christianity.” Quondam et Futurus 1.2 (Summer 1991): 32-43.
Merrill, Malory and the Cultural Crisis of the Late Middle Ages. (1987)
Mickel, Emanuel J., Jr. Marie de France. New York: Twayne, 1974.
Moorman, Charles. Unity of Malory’s Morte Darthur (1965)
Morris, Rosemary. The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature. Cambridge: D.S. D.S. Brewer, 1982.
Murphy, G. Ronald. Gemstone of Paradise: The Holy Grail in Wolfram’s Parzival. Oxford; New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Murray, K. Sarah-Jane. From Plato to Lancelot: A Preface to Chr‚tien de Troyes. Series: Medieval Studies. Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 2008.
Nickel, Helmut. “Why Was the Green Knight Green?” Arthurian Interpretations 2.2 (Spring 1988): 58-64.
Noble, Peter S. Love and Marriage in Chrétien de Troyes. Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1982.
Owen, D.D.R., ed. Arthurian Romance: Seven Essays. New York: Barnes and Noble, 1971.
Parins, Marylyn. Sir Thomas Malory, the Critical Heritage. London; New York: Routledge, 1995.
Peters, Edward. The Shadow King: Rex Inutilis in Medieval Law and Literature. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1970.
Phillips, Graham, and Martin Keatman. King Arthur: The True Story. London: Century Random House, 1992.
Pickens, Rupert, ed. The Sower and His Seed: Essays on Chrétien de Troyes. Lexington: French Forum, 1983.
Pigott, Stuart. “The Sources of Geoffrey of Monmouth.” Antiquity 15 (1941).
Poag, James F. Wolfram von Eschenbach. New York: Twayne, 1972.
Pochoda, Elizabeth. Arthurian Propaganda: Le Morte Darthur as an Historical Ideal of Life. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1971.
Poggioli, Renato. “Paolo and Francesca,” PMLA, LXXII, 3 (June 1957). rptd. in Dante: 20th Century Views, ed. John Freccero. {deals with the relationship of the Arthurian tale to the suffering couple in Inferno.}
Ranawake, Silvia. “The Emergence of German Arthurian Romance: Hartmann von Aue and Ulrich von Zatzikhoven.” The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval German and Dutch Literature. W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake, eds. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2000. 38-53.
Ricciardi, Marc. “‘Se What I Shall Do as for My Trew Parte’: Fellowship and Fortitude in Malory’s ‘Noble Tale of King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius.'” Arthuriana 11 (2) Summer 2001: 20-31.
Riddy, Felicity. Sir Thomas Malory. Leiden and New York: Brill, 1987.
Rider, Jeff. “The Perpetual Enigma of Chétien’s Grail Episode.” Arthuriana 8.1 (Spring 1998): 6-21.
Ringel, Faye J. “Pluto’s Kitchen: The Initiation of Sir Gareth.” Arthurian Interpretations 1.2 (Spring 1987): 29-38.
Robertson, D.W., Jr. “The Concept of Courtly Love as an Impediment to the Understanding of Medieval Texts.” In The Meaning of Courtly Love. F.X. Newman, ed. Albany: SUNY Press, 1968, pp. 1-18.
Robertson, D.W., Jr. “Some Medieval Terminology with Special Reference to Chrétien de Troyes.” Studies in Philology 48 (1951): 669-92.
Robertson, D.W., Jr. “The Subject of the De Amore of Andreas Capellanus.” Modern Philology 50 (1953): 145-161.
Rossignol, Rosalyn. “The Holiest Vessel: Maternal Aspects of the Grail.” Arthuriana 5.1 (Spring 1995): 52-61.
Sacker, Hugh D. An Introduction to Wolfram’s Parzival. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1963.
Saunders, Corinne J. The Forest of Medieval Romance: Avernus, Broceliande, Arden. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1993.
Shichtman, Martin B., and James Carley, eds. Culture and the King: the Social Implications of the Arthurian Legend. Albany, NY: SUNY Press, 1994.
Shirt, David J. “Chrétien’s Charette and Its Critics, 1964-74.” Modern Language Review 73 (1978): 38-50.
Shirt, David J. “How Much of the Lion Can We Put Before the Cart?” French Studies 31 (1977): 1-17.
Shirt, David J. “Le Chevalier de la Charette: A World Upside Down?” Modern Language Review 76 (1981): 811-822.
Sklar, Elizabeth S. “Adventure and the Spiritual Semantics of Malory’s Tale of the Sankgreal.” Arthurian Interpretations 2.2 (Spring 1988): 34-46.
Sleeth, Charles R. “Gawain’s Judgment Day.” Arthuriana 4.2 (Summer 1994): 175-83.
Spearing, Anthony C. The Gawain-Poet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
Spearing, Anthony C. “Public and Private Spaces in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight.” Arthuriana 4.2 (Summer 1994): 138-45.
Stanley, E.G. “Layamon’s Antiquarian Sentiments.” Medium AEvum 38 (1969): 23-37.
Sterling-Hellenbrand, Alexandra. “Women on the Edge in Parzival: A Study of the ‘Grail Women.'” Quondam et Futurus 3.2 (Summer 1993): 56-68.
Stone, Gregory L. “Chrétien de Troyes and Cultural Materialism.” Arthuriana 6.2 (Summer 1996): 69-87.
Sturges, Robert S. “Chrétien de Troyes in English Translation: A Guide to the Issues.” Arthuriana 4.3 (Fall 1994): 205-23.
Surles, Robert L. “Mark of Cornwall: Noble, Ignoble, Ignored.” Arthurian Interpretations 3.2 (Spring 1989): 60-75.
Takamiva, Toshiyuki and Derek Brewer, eds. Aspects of Malory. Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1981.
Thomas, Alfred. “King Arthur and His Round Table in the Culture of Medieval Bohemia and in Medieval Czech Literature.” The Arthur of the Germans: The Arthurian Legend in
Medieval German and Dutch Literature. W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake, eds. Cardiff, Wales: University of Wales Press, 2000. 249-56.
Thompson, Raymond H. “Morgause of Orkney, Queen of Air and Darkness.” Quondam et Futurus 3.1 (Spring 1993): 1-13.
Topsfield, L.T. Chrétien de Troyes: A Study of the Arthurian Romances. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981.
Vinaver, Eugene. Form and Meaning in Medieval Romance. Leeds: Maney, 1966.
Vinaver, Eugene. “Landmarks in Arthurian Literature.” The Expansion and Transformations of Courtly Literature. Ed. Nathaniel B. Smith and Joseph T. Snow. Athens, GA: U. of Georgia Press, 1980, 17-31.
Vinaver, Eugene. The Rise of Romance. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1971.
Wheeler, Bonnie, ed. Arthurian Studies in Honour of P.J.C. Field. Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, 2004.
Wheeler, Bonnie, Robert L. Kindrik, and Michael Salda, eds. The Malory Debate: Essays on the Texts of Le Morte Darthur. Cambridge, England: Derek Brewer, 2000.
Withrington, John. “‘He Telleth The Number of the Stars; He Calleth Them All by Their Names’: The Lesser Knights of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur.” Quondam et Futurus 3.4 (Winter 1993): 17-27.
Zimmer, H. The King and the Corpse. Princeton: Bollingen, 1956.
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