Ethics in the Arthurian Legend (Arthurian Studies, 91) 9781843846871, 9781805430605, 9781805430612, 184384687X
An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature. From i
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English Pages 420 [421] Year 2023
Table of contents :
Front Cover
Contents
Contributors
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Arthurian Ethics before the Pentecostal Oath: In Search of Ethical Origins in Culhwch and Olwen
2. Too Quickly or Not Quickly Enough, Too Rash and Too Harshly: The Arthurian Court’s Lack of Ethic
3. The Ethics of Arthurian Marriage: Husband vs Wife in Hartmann von Aue’s Iwein
4. Arthurian Ethics and Ethical Reading in the Perlesvaus
5. Translation Praxis and the Ethical Value of Chivalry in the Caligula Brut
6. Imperial Ambitions and the Ethics of Power: Gender, Race, and the Riddarasögur
7. Lowland Ethics in the Arthur of the Dutch
8. Contesting Royal Power: The Ethics of Good Lordship, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the M
9. “As egir as any lyoun”: The Ethics of Knight-Horse Relationships in Lybeaus Desconus
10. Malory’s Ethical Dinadan: Moderate Masculinity in a Crisis of Hypermasculine Chivalry
11. Virtus, Vertues, and Gender: Cultivating a Chivalric Habitus in Thomas Malory’s Tale of Sir Gar
12. Kingly Disguise and (Im)Perception in Three Fifteenth-Century English Romances
13. “Adventure? What is That?” Arthurian Ethics in/and the Games We Play
14. The Ethics of a New Edition of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur - and More Evidence for the
15. The Ethics of Writing Guinevere in Modern Historical Fiction
Afterword
Index
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