A Perceforest Reader
Selected Episodes from Perceforest: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain
Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry and a mine of folkloric motifs. Its contents are drawn not only from earlier Arthurian material, but also from romances about Alexander the Great, from Roman histories and from medieval travel writing - not to mention oral tradition, including as it does the first and unexpurgated version of the story of the Sleeping Beauty. Out of this, the autho…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-78204-151-1
- EAN: 9781782041511
- Produktnummer: 14987361
- Verlag: Boydell & Brewer
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 128 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 269 KB
- Auflage: 1. Auflage
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