Happy New Year

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Happy New Year!

• Exam Help, what should I study?!
• Medieval texts (content, background)
• Geoffrey, Chretien, Vulgate Cycle, Malory, etc.
• Lecture material
• Developments, dates, terms
• Hand-outs
• Passages, overviews, background
• Reports on the website
• Content presentations and texts

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Jogging your memory!

• Chronological survey, development growth and
  change (e.g. characters)
• Oldest material scraps, mixture of factfiction,
  traces of oral tradition (Culhwch, Bretons)
• HRB Latin, pseudo-chronicle, sources, first
  biography (incl. Merlijn), propaganda
• Vernacular Wace (RT, Espoir Breton), Layamon
• Chronicle ? Romance (fiction!) Chrétien de
  Troyes ? Lancelot ? Graal

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• Graal and Merlin ? Robert de Boron
• Lancelot and Graal ? Lancelot en prose
• Vulgaat cycle prose true double esprit
• Translations and variants (Middle Dutch
  Lancelotcompilatie, Middle English Stanzaic and
  Alliterative)
• Interchanging chronicle-romance
• Keystone Malory basis for Nachleben

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Sir Thomas Malory,Le Morte Darthur (1470/1485)

• Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revell, born around
  1416, died 1471
• War of the Roses Lancaster-York
• Knight-prisoner criminal? Long list of misdeeds
  may be politically motivated
• Writer in prison collection of Arthurian tales,
  based on Frenssche bookes (Lancelot en prose
  and Tristan en prose)
• In 1485 printed by William Caxton, also
  Winchester manuscript (1470) with 8 Tales instead
  of 21 books with small chapters ? Works (ed.
  Vinaver)
• Caxton misread title final tale as title whole
  Malory gives full biography (but undoes
  interlace).

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Nachleben

• Caxtons edition is popular, yet appreciation
  Arthurian stories diminishes in 15th-16th century
• 19th century (Romantic Period) revival Middle
  Ages ? new editions of Malory shortly after 1800,
  parallel to ideological interest British
  king/queen (Westminsterpalace, Victorians,
  position monarchy needs support)
• Example frescoes in The Queens Robing room
• Gawain and women ? mercy
• Arthur and Lancelot ? generosity
• Example wood-engravings in the House of
  Parliament
• Arthur and Avalon
• Arthur and Excalibur

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Nachleben

• Alfred, Lord Tennyson - The Lady of Shalott (ME
  bron Mort Artu) ? Loreena McKennit (hand-out)
• Idylls of the King, and other texts like Morriss
  Defence of Guenevere
• Pre-Raphaelite Movement a.o. Dante Gabriel
  Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, William Holman
  Hunt, John Everett Millais, Aubrey Beardsley
• Launcelots Vision of the Sanc Grael Oxford
  murals ? art in public space windows above the
  sink
• Themes
• Arthur in boat to Avalon ? photo Julia Margaret
• Cameron
• Lady of Shalott, Elaine of Astolat

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• William Holman Hunt
• The Lady of Shallot

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• Aubrey Beardsley Merlin
• (189394, for an edition of Le Morte Darthur,
  Malory)

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• Oxford Union Murals
• The Lady of the Lake gives Excalibur to Arthur

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• Julia Margaret Cameron

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Nachleben

• Nachleben continues after 19th century
  examples Galahad as symbol for unknown soldier,
  Grail metaphor, Round Table, Avalon
• Many novels, often with new perspectives
  (Morgaine, Guinevere, Merlin, minor characters)
• Music Rick Wakeman, Kayak. McKennit
• Games
• Movies Friday, 10-12!
• (Monty Python, First Knight, The Fisher King,
  Excalibur, etc.)

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