The Broadview Anthology of Medieval Arthurian Literature

Kathy Cawsey is Associate Professor of English at Dalhousie University. Elizabeth Edwards is Professor of English at the University of King’s College, Halifax.

Readings listed in green are included on the anthology’s companion website.
1. Front matter

a. Acknowledgements & Thanks
b. List of figures
c. Abbreviations
d. Timeline

2. General Introduction

3. Texts

a. Welsh poetry

i. Early Welsh texts
ii. Priddeu Annwn


b. Early Latin texts
c. Culhwch and Olwen
d. Geoffrey of Monmouth

i. Deeds of the British

Book 8

Stonehenge and the Crowning of Uther Pendragon
Uther and Igerna
The Death of Uther


Book 9

The Crowning of Arthur
Arthur fights the Saxons
Arthur marries Guinevere
Peacetime passtimes
Emperor Lucius


Book 10

Arthur’s Dream
Giant of Mont St. Michel
Various battles with Rome
Mordred’s Betrayal


Book 11

Arthur and Mordred




ii. Vita Merlini


e. Wace – Brut

i. 8565-8822: Uther and Ygerne; conception, disguise, Merlin.
ii. 9587-9798: Arthur’s court and the Round Table
iii. 9905-10104: the Conquest of France and the defeat of Frollo.
iv. 10437-10954: Arthur’s coronation to the arrival of the Roman ambassadors
v. 11173-11188: Modret’s adulterous desire for the Queen.
vi. 11239-11606: Arthur’s dream and the Giant of Mont St Michel
vii. 13010-13298: Mordred, Guinevere, and the Death of Arthur


f. Chrétien de Troyes – The Knight of the Cart
g. Marie de France

i. Lanval
ii. Chevrefoil


h. Lai of Melion
i. Béroul – Tristan

i. The Ambiguous Oath
ii. King Arthur’s Court
iii. The Malpas


j. Layamon – Brut
k. Gunnlaugr Leifsson – Merlínússpá
l. Wolfram von Eschenbach – Parzival
m. Lancelot-Grail cycle

Lancelot

i. Lancelot’s arrival at court
ii. beginning of the love affair with Guinevere,
iii. Sir Galahalt the Haut Prince
iv. Galahalt’s suicide from grief.


Holy Grail

i. Galahad’s arrival at court
ii. beginning of the quest
iii. Bors’ quest
iv. end of the quest in Sarras.




n. Heldris of Cornwall – Roman de Silence

i. Nature vs. Nurture
ii. Merlin sections


o. Morien
p. Melech Artus
q. Alliterative Morte Arthure
r. Geoffrey Chaucer – “Wife of Bath’s Tale”
s. Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (parallel text)

i. Modern English
ii. Middle English


t. Stanzaic Morte Arthur
u. Thomas Chestre – Sir Launfal
v. Hans Rosenplüt – The Crown
w. Prose Merlin

i. Conception of Merlin
ii. Uther & Ygerne
iii. Merlin & Nimiane


x. The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
y. The Old Knight
z. Thomas Malory – Le Morte Darthur

1. Tale I

i. Uther & Igraine
ii. Sword in the Stone
iii. The Wedding & Round Table
iv. Pentecostal Oath
v. Merlin & Nenyve
vi. Arthur & Accolon
vii. Pelleas & Ettarde


2. Tale V

i. Palomides


3. Tale VI

i. Galahad’s arrival


4. Tale VII

i. Elaine of Ascolat
ii. Knight of the Cart
iii. The Tale of Sir Urry


5. Tale VIII

i. Rumours
ii. War with Lancelot
iii. Mordred
iv. Death of Arthur
vi. Death of Guinevere & Lancelot