The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

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This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician); it follows the spread of Arthurian material overseas with the seaborne expansion of Spain and Portugal from Iberia into America and Asia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and, as well as examining the specifically Arthurian texts themselves, it traces the continued influence of the medieval Arthurian material and its impact on the society, literature and culture of the Golden Age and beyond, including its presence in Don Quixote, the influential Spanish Arthurian-inspired romance Amadis de Gaula, and in Spanish ballads. Such was its influence that we find an indigenous American woman called 'Iseo' (Iseult); and an Arthurian story appeared in an indigenous language of the Philippines, Tagalog, as late as the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Preface Ad Putter List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introduction I. Arthurian Material in Iberia / Paloma Gracia II. The Surviving Peninsular Arthurian Witnesses: A Description and an Analysis / José Manuel Lucía Megías III. Arthurian Literature in Portugal / Santiago Gutiérrez García IV. The 'Matière de Bretagne' in Galicia from the XIIth to the XVth Century / Pilar Lorenzo Gradín V. The 'Matière de Bretagne' in the Corona de Aragón / Lourdes Soriano Robles VI. The Matter of Britain in Spanish Society and Literature from Cluny to Cervantes / Carlos Alvar VII. The 'Post-Vulgate' Cycle in the Iberian Peninsula / Paloma Gracia VIII. The Hispanic Versions of the 'Lancelot en prose': 'Lanzarote del Lago' and 'Lançalot' / Antonio Contreras IX. The Iberian 'Tristan' Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance / María Luzdivina Cuesta Torre X. 'Amadís de Gaula' / Rafael Ramos XI. Arthur Goes Global: Arthurian Material in Hispanic and Portuguese America and Asia / David Hook XII. The Contemporary Return of the Matter of Britain to Iberian Letters (XIXth to XXIst Centuries) / Juan Miguel Zarandona Bibliography