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Legends of Charlemagne
The Floating Press 2012; US$ 3.99Travel back in time with this collection of fables and legends set in medieval France. Famed folklorist Thomas Bulfinch brings together a carefully curated compendium of stories that are sure to delight. A bevy of damsels in distress and courageous knights populate these pages in tales that veer from action-adventure to romance and back again. more...
In Between
Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2011; US$ 64.69Hauptbeschreibung Thanks to the recent »return to religion«, the holy has become a relevant issue in public debate, as is suggested by concepts such as »re-sacralization« and »re-enchantment«. Holy war and religiously motivated terrorist attacks, the fascination in popular culture for subjects such as the Holy Grail (as in Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code),... more...
'Melusine' und 'Fortunatus'
De Gruyter 1993; US$ 126.00"Melusine" und "Fortunatus" : verrätselter und verweigerter Sinn more...
Erzählstrukturen der Artusliteratur
De Gruyter 1999; US$ 126.00The apparently vague and certainly hackneyed term 'structure' has become a terminally ubiquitous 'hardly perennial' in the research on Arthurian romance in verse and prose. Unlike orally derived epic poetry, early Arthurian romance already evolved an identity as an individually under-written, authorial, consciously fictional, and - in tendency at least... more...
Das Wunderbare in der arthurischen Literatur
De Gruyter 2003; US$ 133.00Miraculous phenomena as an integral feature of Arthurian literature have always been a central focus of research, notably in approaches centering on the history of motifs and sources, and those with a structural bent. But with the new concern for issues posed by the history of mentality, problems of acculturation and functionalization have moved to... more...
Arthurian Literature XXV
Boydell & Brewer 2008; US$ 90.00The most recent research in matters Arthurian, by leading scholars in the field. more...
The Legend of the Grail
Boydell & Brewer Group Ltd 2013; US$ 14.57The Grail legends have been appropriated by novelists as diverse as Umberto Eco and Dan Brown yet very few have read for themselves the original stories from which they came. All the mystery and drama of the Arthurian world are embodied in the extraordinary tales of Perceval, Gawain, Lancelot and Galahad in pursuit of the Holy Grail. The original... more...
The Arthur of the North
University of Wales Press 2011; US$ 85.00The book introduces the reader to the stories about King Arthur and his knights and the lovers Tristan and Isolt that flourished in the Scandinavian countriesin Denmark, Iceland, Norway, and Swedenin the Middle Ages and in early modern times. The versions of the Arthurian legend that were popular in the North were translations of mostly... more...
A Companion to Arthurian Literature
Wiley 2009; US$ 228.95This Companion offers a chronological sweep of the canon of Arthurian literature - from its earliest beginnings to the contemporary manifestations of Arthur found in film and electronic media. Part of the popular series, Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture, this expansive volume enables a fundamental understanding of Arthurian literature... more...
The Grail Chronicles
The History Press 2011; US$ 14.57This is the story of a plain silver chalice from the first century AD that now rests in the heart of England. From its momentous beginnings as the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper, and as the vessel used to catch His blood at the Crucifixion, to its unrecognised discovery in the late nineteenth century, the chalice has passed through the hands... more...









