The Arthur of the Low Countries: The Arthurian Legend in Dutch and Flemish Literature
(Hardback)
Publishing Details
The Arthur of the Low Countries: The Arthurian Legend in Dutch and Flemish Literature
By (Author) Bart Besamusca
Edited by Frank Brandsma
University of Wales Press
University of Wales Press
26th April 2021
United Kingdom
Classifications
Professional and Scholarly
Non Fiction
History
839.31103309
Physical Properties
Hardback
256
Width 172mm, Height 244mm
Description
In the medieval Low Countries (nowadays Belgium and the Netherlands), Arthurian romance flourished in the 13th and 14th centuries. The Middle Dutch poets translated French material), but also created romances of their own. The Arthur of the Low Countries provides a state of the art overview of the Dutch Arthurian material and the research it has provoked. The region is a crossroads between the French and Germanic spheres of influence and the movement of texts and manuscripts (West to East) reflects that position, as chapters on the historical context, the French material and the Germanic Arthuriana of the Rhinelands reveal. Three chapters, on the translations of French verse texts, the translations of French prose texts, and on the indigenous romances, form the core of the book, enriched by chapters on the manuscripts, on Arthur in the chronicles and on the post-medieval Arthurian material.
Author Bio
Bart Besamusca is Professor of Middle Dutch Textual Culture from an International Perspective in the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies at Utrecht University. Frank Brandsma is Senior Lecturer in Comparative Literature (Middle Ages) in the Utrecht Centre for Medieval Studies at Utrecht University.
