The Arthur of the Iberians

Description

This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician); it follows the spread of Arthurian material overseas with the seaborne expansion of Spain and Portugal from Iberia into America and Asia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and, as well as examining the specifically Arthurian texts themselves, it traces the continued influence of the medieval Arthurian material and its impact on the society, literature and culture of the Golden Age and beyond, including its presence in Don Quixote, the influential Spanish Arthurian-inspired romance Amadís de Gaula, and in Spanish ballads. Such was its influence that we find an indigenous American woman called ‘Iseo’ (Iseult); and an Arthurian story appeared in an indigenous language of the Philippines, Tagalog, as late as the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

Introduction
I Arthurian Material in Iberia
Paloma Gracia
II The Surviving Peninsular Arthurian Witnesses: A Description and an Analysis
José Manuel Lucía Megías
III Arthurian Literature in Portugal
Santiago Gutiérrez García
IV The Matière de Bretagne in Galicia from the XIIth to the XVth Century
Pilar Lorenzo Gradín
V The Matière de Bretagne in the Corona de Aragón
Lourdes Soriano Robles
VI The Matter of Britain and Historical Reality
Carlos Alvar
VII The Post-Vulgate Cycle in the Iberian Peninsula
Paloma Gracia
VIII The Hispanic Versions of the Lancelot en prose: Lanzarote del Lago and Lançalot
Antonio Contreras
IX The Iberian Tristan Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
María Luzdivina Cuesta Torre
X Amadís de Gaula
Rafael Ramos
XI Arthur Goes Global: Arthurian Material in Hispanic and Portuguese America and Asia
David Hook
XII The Contemporary Return of the Matter of Britain to Iberian Letters (XIXth to XXth Centuries)
Juan Miguel Zarandona

Sujets

• Literary Criticism
• Spanish
• Spain
• Portuguese
• Spain (groupe)
• European
• Portugal

Informations

• Publié par: University of Wales Press
• Date de parution: 15 juin 2015
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781783162437
• Langue: English

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THE ARTHUR OF THE IBERIANS
ARTHURIAN LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
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THE ARTHUR OF THE IBERIANS
THE ARTHURIAN LEGEND IN THE SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE WORLDS
edited by
David Hook
UNIVERSITY OF WALES PRESS 2015
© The Vinaver Trust, 2015
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The right of the Contributors to be identified separately as authors of this work has been asserted by them in accordance with sections 77, 78 and 79 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.
PUBLISHED IN COOPERATION WITH
THE VINAVER TRUST
The Vinaver Trust was established by the British Branch of the International Arthurian Society to commemorate a greatly respected colleague and a distinguished scholar
Eugène Vinaver
the editor of Malory’s Morte Darthur . The Trust aims to advance study of Arthurian literature in all languages by planning and encouraging research projects in the field, and by aiding publication of the resultant studies.
ARTHURIAN LITERATURE IN THE MIDDLE AGES
Series Editor
Ad Putter I The Arthur of the Welsh , Edited by Rachel Bromwich, A. O. H. Jarman and Brynley F. Roberts (University of Wales Press, 1991) II The Arthur of the English , Edited by W. R. J. Barron (University of Wales Press, 1999) III The Arthur of the Germans , Edited by W. H. Jackson and S. A. Ranawake (University of Wales Press, 2000) IV The Arthur of the French , Edited by Glyn S. Burgess and Karen Pratt (University of Wales Press, 2006) V The Arthur of the North , Edited by Marianne E. Kalinke (University of Wales Press, 2011) VI The Arthur of Medieval Latin Literature , Edited by Siân Echard (University of Wales Press, 2011) VII The Arthur of the Italians , Edited by Gloria Allaire and F. Regina Psaki (University of Wales Press, 2014) VIII The Arthur of the Iberians , edited by David Hook (University of Wales Press, 2015)
CONTENTS Preface Ad Putter List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction I Arthurian Material in Iberia Paloma Gracia II The Surviving Peninsular Arthurian Witnesses: A Description and an Analysis José Manuel Lucía Megías III Arthurian Literature in Portugal Santiago Gutiérrez García IV The Matière de Bretagne in Galicia from the XIIth to the XVth Century Pilar Lorenzo Gradín V The Matière de Bretagne in the Corona de Aragón Lourdes Soriano Robles VI The Matter of Britain in Spanish Society and Literature from Cluny to Cervantes Carlos Alvar VII The Post-Vulgate Cycle in the Iberian Peninsula Paloma Gracia VIII The Hispanic Versions of the Lancelot en prose : Lanzarote del Lago and Lançalot Antonio Contreras IX The Iberian Tristan Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance María Luzdivina Cuesta Torre X Amadís de Gaula Rafael Ramos XI Arthur Goes Global: Arthurian Material in Hispanic and Portuguese America and Asia David Hook XII The Contemporary Return of the Matter of Britain to Iberian Letters (XIXth to XXIst Centuries) Juan Miguel Zarandona Bibliography
PREFACE
This book forms part of the ongoing series Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages. The purpose of the series is to provide a comprehensive and reliable survey of Arthurian writings in all their cultural and generic variety. For many years, the single-volume Arthur in the Middle Ages: A Collaborative History (ed. R. S. Loomis, Oxford, 1959) served the needs of students and scholars of Arthurian literature admirably, but it has now been overtaken by advances in scholarship and by changes in critical perspectives and methodologies. The Vinaver Trust recognized the need for a fresh and up-to-date survey, and decided that several volumes were required to do justice to the distinctive contributions made to Arthurian literature by the various cultures of medieval Europe.
The series is mainly aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students and at scholars working in the fields covered by each of the volumes. The series has, however, also been designed to be accessible to general readers and to students and scholars from different fields who want to learn what forms Arthurian narratives took in languages and literatures that they may not know, and how those narratives influenced the cultures that they do know. Within these parameters the editors have had control over the shape and content of their individual volumes.
Ad Putter, University of Bristol (General Editor)
THE CONTRIBUTORS
Carlos Alvar (Université de Genève)
Antonio Contreras (Institut d’Estudis Medievals, Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona)
María Luzdivina Cuesta Torre (Departamento de Filología Hispánica y Clásica, and Instituto de Estudios Medievales, Universidad de León)
Paloma Gracia (Universidad de Granada)
Santiago Gutiérrez García (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
David Hook (University of Oxford)
Pilar Lorenzo Gradín (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela)
José Manuel Lucía Megías (Universidad Complutense de Madrid)
Rafael Ramos (Universitat de Girona)
Lourdes Soriano Robles (Institut de Recerca en Cultures Medievals, Universitat de Barcelona)
Juan Miguel Zarandona (Universidad de Valladolid)
ABBREVIATIONS ABA Anais das Bibliotecas e Arquivos ACCP Arquivos do Centro Cultural Português ADMYTE Archivo Digital de Manuscritos y Textos Españoles AEM Anuario de Estudios Medievales AES Asociación Española de Semiótica AHLM Asociación Hispánica de Literatura Medieval AHN Archivo Histórico Nacional, Madrid ALMA Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages ANTT Arquivo Nacional da Torre do Tombo AR Archivum Romanicum ASEAN Association of South-East Asian Nations BBC Butlletí de la Biblioteca de Catalunya BBIAS Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society BETA Bibliografía española de textos antiguos BF Boletim de Filologia (Lisbon unless stated to be Rio de Janeiro) BGL Boletín Galego de Literatura BHi Bulletin Hispanique BHS Bulletin of Hispanic Studies BITAGAP Bibliografía de textos antigos galegos e portugueses BITECA Bibliografia de textos antics catalans, valencians i balears BNE Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid BNF Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris BNM see BNE BOOCT Bibliography of Old Catalan Texts BOOST Bibliography of Old Spanish Texts BRABLB Boletín de la Real Academia de Buenas Letras de Barcelona (Butlletí de la Reial Acadèmia de Bones Lletres de Barcelona ) BRAE Boletín de la Real Academia Española BSCC Boletín de la Sociedad Castellonense de Cultura CCM Cahiers de Civilisation Médiévale CEC Centro de Estudios Cervantinos CEHM Cahiers d’Études Hispaniques Médiévales CLHM Cahiers de Linguistique Hispanique Médiévale CuN Cultura Neolatina CSIC Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas EL Estudos Linguísticos FCE Fondo de Cultura Económica HR Hispanic Review HRJ Hispanic Research Journal JHP Journal of Hispanic Philology JHR Journal of Hispanic Research KRQ Kentucky Romance Quarterly LC La corónica LPGP Brea López, Mercedes (ed.), 1996. Lírica profana galego-portuguesa MPh Modern Philology MR Marche Romane NBAE Nueva Biblioteca de Autores Españoles NLW National Library of Wales/Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru, Aberystwyth NRFH Nueva revista de filología hispánica ÖNB Österreichisches Nationalbibliothek, Vienna PMHRS Papers of the Medieval Hispanic Research Seminar PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association of America PPU Promociones y Publicaciones Universitarias PUF Presses Universitaires de France RAE Real Academia Española RBC Research Bibliographies & Checklists RFE Revista de Filología Española RFLLL Revista da Faculdade de Letras, Línguas e Literaturas RFR Revista de Filología Románica RGF Revista Galega de Filoloxía RH Revue Hispanique RL Revista Lusitana RLC Revue de Littérature Comparée RLM Revista de Literatura Medieval RLP Revista de Língua Portuguesa Ro Romania RPh Romance Philology RPM Revista de Poética Medieval RR Romanic Review SATF Société des Anciens Textes Français SBPS Santa Barbara Portuguese Studies SEMYR Sociedad de Estudios Medievales y Renacentistas SMV Studi Mediolatini e Volgari UAM Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Mexico City UNAM Universidad Autónoma, Madrid UNCSRLL University of North Carolina Studies in Romance Languages and Literature UNED Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia UWP University of Wales Press VR Vox Romanica ZFSL Zeitschrift für Französische Sprache und Literatur ZrP Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie
INTRODUCTION
David Hook
To edit a large-scale collaborative survey of the current state of knowledge of the presence of the Arthurian legends in Iberia is to be reminded forcefully not only of the problems associated with the definition of those terms, but also of the provisional nature of much of that knowledge, and of the rapidity of its continuing development in several important respects. To deal with these matters in turn: firstly, by ‘Iberian’ is meant simply the languages and cultures of the Iberian Peninsula in which manifestations of Arthurian themes are known, that is to say, the medieval Romance languages and dialects of Iberia and the polities and territories associated with them, their later overseas territorial acquisitions around the Atlantic, the Indian Ocean and the Pacific, and post-medieval Arthuriana in Iberoromance languages and in modern Basque. The question of what constitutes ‘Arthuriana’ is, of course, open