The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet: Studies on Arthurian and Other TraditionsBloomsbury Publishing PLC, 2023 M01 9 - 164 páginas The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet: Studies on Arthurian and Other Traditions delves into the origins of Arthur and reveals the author of the famous Gawain Manuscript. Its first part contains evidence for the Arthur of film and legend as a real person, a Celtic commander (not a king) who fought battles in North Britain during the terrible volcanic winter of 536-7, before dying a hero's death in a conflict on Hadrian's Wall. Its second part moves on to Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian poem on magic, near-death, and near-seduction. Its author has always been unknown, but Dr. Breeze uses arguments of the US scholar Ann W. Astell to date the text to 1387 and name the poet as Sir John Stanley (d. 1414), a Cheshire and Lancashire grandee. He can now be recognized as an artist of genius, comparable to Chaucer himself. What is said in this book on John Stanley and his circle thus allows the greatest advance in Arthurian Studies since 1934, when Walter Oakeshott discovered the Winchester Malory amongst manuscripts of an English school library. |
Contenido
Arthur Dux Bellorum and Welsh Penteulu Chief | 17 |
Was Sir John Stanley d 1414 the Gawain Poet? Chapter Four 1387 Year of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight 41 67 | 41 |
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight Predates Pearl | 81 |
Italy Pearl St Erkenwald and the Stanleys | 99 |
PlaceNames and Politics in The Awntyrs | 117 |
Bibliography | 137 |
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