Ethics in the Arthurian Legend

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Edited by Melissa Ridley Elmes, Lindenwood University, Missouri, Evelyn Meyer, St Louis University, Missouri

Publisher:: Boydell & Brewer
Online publication date:: January 2024
Print publication year:: 2023
Online ISBN:: 9781805430605
DOI:: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781805430605

Subjects:: Literature, European and World Literature: General Interest
Series:: Arthurian Studies

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An interdisciplinary and trans-historical investigation of the representation of ethics in Arthurian Literature.

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Contributors
pp vii-x

Foreword
pp xi-xvii

Acknowledgments
pp xviii-xx

Introduction
pp 1-7

1 - Arthurian Ethics before the Pentecostal Oath: In Search of Ethical Origins in Culhwch and Olwen
pp 8-34

2 - Too Quickly or Not Quickly Enough, Too Rash and Too Harshly: The Arthurian Court’s Lack of Ethics in Hartmann von Aue’s Erec and Iwein and Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival
pp 35-64

3 - The Ethics of Arthurian Marriage: Husband vs Wife in Hartmann von Aue’s Iwein
pp 65-84

4 - Arthurian Ethics and Ethical Reading in the Perlesvaus
pp 85-108

5 - Translation Praxis and the Ethical Value of Chivalry in the Caligula Brut
pp 109-130

6 - Imperial Ambitions and the Ethics of Power: Gender, Race, and the Riddarasögur
pp 131-150

7 - Lowland Ethics in the Arthur of the Dutch
pp 151-172

8 - Contesting Royal Power: The Ethics of Good Lordship, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, and the March of Wales
pp 173-197

9 - “As egir as any lyoun”: The Ethics of Knight-Horse Relationships in Lybeaus Desconus
pp 198-218

10 - Malory’s Ethical Dinadan: Moderate Masculinity in a Crisis of Hypermasculine Chivalry
pp 219-244

11 - Virtus, Vertues, and Gender: Cultivating a Chivalric Habitus in Thomas Malory’s Tale of Sir Gareth
pp 245-270

12 - Kingly Disguise and (Im)Perception in Three Fifteenth- Century English Romances
pp 271-295

13 - “Adventure? What is That?” Arthurian Ethics in/and the Games We Play
pp 296-324

14 - The Ethics of a New Edition of Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur – and More Evidence for the Superiority of the Winchester Manuscript
pp 325-356

15 - The Ethics of Writing Guinevere in Modern Historical Fiction
pp 357-386

Afterword
pp 387-390

Index
pp 391-400

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