Where the Middle Ages Begin
Characters and Narrators as Interpreters of Fidelity Tests in Medieval Arthurian Fiction Besamusca, Bart Neophilologus (2010) Abstract This article discusses a number of fidelity-testing tales and episodes, focusing on the function of characters and narrators who provide interpretations of the outcome of the tests. The testing of a series of characters takes place during a social […]
Bounds of Imagination:Grail Questing and Chivalric Colonizing in Wolfram von Eschenbach’s Parzival Hasty, Will The Grail, the Quest and the World of Arthur, ed. Norris J. Lacy (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2008) Abstract The Arthurian and Grail narratives of the High Middle Ages, particularly by means of their adventures and quests, occupied a new territory in the imagination of […]
Envisioning Salvation: An Ecumenical Ekphrasis in Wirnt von Gravenberg’s Wigalois Brown, James H. Arthuriana 20.3 (2010) Abstract In his only known romance, Wigalois, Wirnt von Gravenberg uses ekphrasis as a vehicle for articulating religious tolerance as well as differences between medieval Christians and Muslims, and offers an alternative image to what easily could have been an […]
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