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{"title":"Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life by Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm (review)","authors":"Marie Schilling Grogan","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924601","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924601","url":null,"abstract":"<span><span>In lieu of</span> an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:</span>\u0000<p> <span>Reviewed by:</span> <ul> <li><!-- html_title --> <em>Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life</em> by Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm <!-- /html_title --></li> <li> Marie Schilling Grogan </li> </ul> <small>dillian adler</small> and <small>paul strohm</small>, <em>Alle Thyng Hath Tyme: Time and Medieval Life</em>. Medieval Lives Series. London: Reaktion Books, 2023. Pp. 247. <small>isbn</small>: 978–1789146790. £16.95. <p>In this handsome volume from Reaktion Books’ Medieval Lives series, Gillian Adler and Paul Strohm limn the ways that medieval people experience, measure, and theorize time, arguing for ‘the subtlety and complexity of medieval time’ (p. 103) as a byproduct of the age’s rich array of temporalities. Expertly ranging from the cloister to the civic square, from Benedict’s <em>Rule</em> to Arthurian romance, incorporating forty-nine color plates and quotations from a wide range of literary sources, this volume provides an overview of its subject that is intended to be accessible to a general readership but also offers much to engage medievalists and philosophers of time.</p> <p>The book begins in ‘Varieties of Time,’ Chapter One, by examining the ‘colliding systems’ of time under which medieval people lived, especially the seasonal and the liturgical. Certainly, rural laborers experienced their days and year according to the diurnal movement of the sun and the annual cycle of changing seasons, but Adler and Strohm argue that agricultural rhythms were also shaped by the temporality of monastic life. The authors mine works of imagination such as <em>Pearl</em> and <em>Piers Plowman</em> for evidence that the world beyond the cloister adopted the language of the liturgical hours and calendar; and, indeed, for everyone, the pealing of church bells at regular hours was the ‘sound of time’ (p. 44).</p> <p>Chapter Two, ‘Measuring Time,’ explores medieval efforts to gauge the passage of time with a variety of ingenious devices—candles, sundials, water clocks— culminating in the invention of mechanical clocks that would revolutionize the human experience of time, especially as large tower clocks in cathedrals regulated commerce and other secular social activities in the public square. But the authors also emphasize that, while many have imagined the late medieval advent of the mechanical clock as a modernizing moment, it is in fact the natural development of the long monastic history of time measurement. Chapter Three, ‘Time and the Planets,’ looks to the heavens to explore medieval understandings of how astral and planetary positions affected human life. Paying particular attention to the popularity—at least in courtly circles—of astrolabes and miscellanies devoted to astrology and time measurement, Adler and Strohm demonstrate a widespread belief that the order of the cosmos both reflected and influenced earthly experience. Of course, Chauce","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"52 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589772","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'The forme to the fynisment foldes ful selden' (l.499): A Comparison of David Lowery's Screenplay and His 2021 Film Adaptation The Green Knight","authors":"Dennis Tredy","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924597","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924597","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>This study closely compares David Lowery’s film <i>The Green Knight</i> to his 2018 screenplay, detailing the many changes he made during two months of filming in 2019 and in post-production. These include changes due to location choices and budget, those regarding Lowery’s use of literary and cinematic subtexts, those made to his main characters (both male and female), and structural modifications distorting the linearity of the storyline. The analysis reveals Lowery’s organic filmmaking techniques, his changing priorities and how one’s vision at the outset of such an endeavor does indeed seldom match its final form.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"2016 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589760","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Environmental Realism in the Arthurian Forest of Adventure","authors":"Michael W. Twomey","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924598","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924598","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>Considering the trees and marginal areas of forests known ecologically as ecotones enables an appreciation of environmental realism as a purposeful literary strategy in the Forest of Adventure of Arthurian romances.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"164 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589875","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Wife of Bath: A Biography by Marion Turner (review)","authors":"Kathleen Forni","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924607","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924607","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Wife of Bath: A Biography&lt;/em&gt; by Marion Turner &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Kathleen Forni &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;small&gt;marion turner&lt;/small&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Wife of Bath: A Biography&lt;/em&gt;. Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2023. Pp. x, 320. 14 color illustrations. &lt;small&gt;isbn&lt;/small&gt;: 9780691206011. $29.95. &lt;p&gt;Highly readable, affordable ($20.97 for the ebook), with color illustrations and a striking green and pink cover featuring a design of the Ellesmere Wife of Bath, Turner’s book is a model for public-facing humanities. Princeton University Press has done its share to promote the book, which immediately created buzz, featured on National Public Radio and warmly reviewed by the &lt;em&gt;Guardian&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;New York Times&lt;/em&gt;, &lt;em&gt;New Yorker&lt;/em&gt;, and the &lt;em&gt;Times Literary Supplement&lt;/em&gt; (to name only a few print venues) within weeks of its release. And the title itself is catchy, given that it’s a biography of a fictional character. Indeed, the book casts a wide net, and is intended for both Chaucerians and an educated audience with an interest in the Middle Ages and literary history. Chaucerians will recognize the enormous amount of research and scholarship that informs Turner’s details about Chaucer’s historical and social milieu, and less specialized readers will appreciate the story-driven narratives that control those details.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;I had an undergraduate who said that he would ‘kill himself’ if he were married to the Wife of Bath, and Turner is adept at describing the power and, for some, the appeal of this fictional character. Although citing literary antecedents such as La Vielle in the &lt;em&gt;Romance of the Rose&lt;/em&gt;, Turner makes a compelling case for the originality of Chaucer’s characterization of an ‘ordinary,’ female, middle-class, self-conscious, first-person narrator, tracing the interest in subjectivity and interiority partly to the tradition of confession (dating to the Fourth Lateran Council in 1215). Neither a real medieval woman nor a mosaic of misogynistic textual stereotypes, the Wife of Bath (Alison) nonetheless has characteristics that audiences in the fourteenth century would have recognized. The first part of book situates Alison within the social and historical context of northern medieval Europe in which the Black Death had afforded economic opportunities (working in service, victualling, brewing, textiles, and clothes production) that allowed women a new degree of social mobility. Turner compares &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 107]&lt;/strong&gt; the Wife of Bath to real women who worked, remarried (among others, Chaucer’s mother, cousin, and granddaughter), went on pilgrimage, and wrote (Margery Kempe, Heloise, Christine de Pisan, Julian of Norwich). Turner makes the case that the Wife of Bath would not have been considered unrealistic or absurd in terms of her experience, nor in","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"214 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"'Bi þat watz Gryngolet grayth and gurde with a sadel': Characterizing Gringolet in Old French and Middle English Romances","authors":"Marisa Mills","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924596","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924596","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Abstract:</p><p>While the development and changes of Gawain’s character is of considerable interest to Arthurian scholars, Gringolet—the famous mount associated with him—receives comparatively less attention. Scholars should consider Gringolet a character himself and moreover, attend to the fact that his characterization changes through different romances, much like Gawain’s own.</p></p>","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations by Annegret Oehme (review)","authors":"Jonathan Seelye Martin","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924605","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations&lt;/em&gt; by Annegret Oehme &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Jonathan Seelye Martin &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;small&gt;annegret oehme&lt;/small&gt;, &lt;em&gt;The Knight without Boundaries: Yiddish and German Arthurian Wigalois Adaptations&lt;/em&gt;. Explorations in Medieval Culture Vol. 17. Leiden, Boston: Brill, 2022. Pp. viii, 189. &lt;small&gt;isbn&lt;/small&gt;: 978–90–04–42547–7. $149. &lt;p&gt;Annegret Oehme’s &lt;em&gt;The Knight without Boundaries&lt;/em&gt; is an exploration of an understudied and unique Yiddish-German Arthurian adaptation tradition that begins with Wirnt van Grafenberg’s Middle High German fair-unknown romance &lt;em&gt;Wigalois&lt;/em&gt; (c. 1210/20) and continues all the way to the present day in the form of a 2011 comic book. What makes this tradition so fascinating and unique is its adaptation into Yiddish as &lt;em&gt;Viduvilt&lt;/em&gt; (sixteenth century), a wildly successful text in its own right, which spawned further adaptations, including, via a 1699 Yiddish textbook, adaptations from Yiddish into German. Oehme’s monograph sets out to study this tradition through the lens of adaptation studies, a theoretical framework until now mostly applied to film but which Oehme convincingly shows is also highly useful for understanding the medieval process of artistic creation and inspiration. An important aspect of this theory is that it does not valorize the ‘original,’ either as an ideal from which all subsequent works depart or as a starting point for recipients. Instead, all works within the tradition inform the audience’s reception of the others, and a recipient might first enter the tradition through a chronologically later work. Oehme is particularly insistent that &lt;em&gt;Wigalois&lt;/em&gt;-&lt;em&gt;Viduvilt&lt;/em&gt; represent a single transcultural adaptation tradition rather than separate Yiddish-Jewish and German traditions. Instead, the &lt;em&gt;Wigalois-Viduvilt&lt;/em&gt; tradition shows Jewish interest in and engagement with the literature of the majority culture and, far more rare, German gentile interest in Jewish stories and literature, a fact which Oehme connects to the inherent adaptability of both the German &lt;em&gt;Wigalois&lt;/em&gt; and the Yiddish &lt;em&gt;Viduvilt&lt;/em&gt;.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;True to her deemphasis on the original, Oehme’s first chapter uses an eighteenth-century adaptation, Ferdinand Roth’s German fairy tale &lt;em&gt;Ammenmährchen&lt;/em&gt;, to expand on her integration of adaptation studies into medievalist frameworks such as ‘retelling’ &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 104]&lt;/strong&gt; (&lt;em&gt;Wiedererzählen&lt;/em&gt;). Her overview successfully shows the usefulness of this approach to discussion of medieval adaptation processes. In the next chapter, Oehme discusses &lt;em&gt;Wigalois&lt;/em&gt; and demonstrates how it represents a generic experiment combining elements of the matters of Britain, France, and Rome. The various irritations caus","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"49 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589769","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts: From the Welsh Chronicle of the Six Ages of the World by Elis Gruffydd (review)","authors":"Peter H. Goodrich","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924604","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924604","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts: From the Welsh Chronicle of the Six Ages of the World&lt;/em&gt; by Elis Gruffydd &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Peter H. Goodrich &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;small&gt;elis gruffydd&lt;/small&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts: From the Welsh Chronicle of the Six Ages of the World&lt;/em&gt;. Introduction by Jerry Hunter. Translated by Patrick K. Ford. Oakland: University of California Press, 2023. Pp. 158. &lt;small&gt;isbn&lt;/small&gt;: 978–0–520–39025-6. $18.95. &lt;p&gt;Among the most important (and lengthiest) works in the Welsh language is the universal history written by a professional soldier who spent most of his life in &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 102]&lt;/strong&gt; Calais. As a trusted servant of Sir Robert Wingfield during Henry VIII’s reign, Elis Gruffydd nevertheless retained his fondness for his native tongue and homeland in north Wales. Although not a bard or university educated, he was distinctively literate, finding time among his duties to pen four works, the most important of which is the &lt;em&gt;Chronicl Cwech Oes y Byd&lt;/em&gt; of over 2400 pages, completed in 1552 and excerpted in this new translation by Patrick K. Ford. For those who can read Welsh, it is available online from the National Library of Wales in two manuscripts: NLW MS 5276D and NLW MS 3045D.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Professor Jerry Hunter’s knowledgeable introduction provides a fine insight into Gruffydd’s life and work, providing not only the biographical facts but the flavor of what it meant to be a sixteenth-century Welshman of the lesser gentry. Professor Ford’s translation originated in a graduate reading group that was cut short by COVID-19. It is a canny selection of highlights that will be of special interest to Arthurians and those interested in British folklore. Like Ford’s earlier translations, such as the &lt;em&gt;The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales&lt;/em&gt; (1977), which I assigned several times as a course text, this slender new volume is both clear and direct in style, while remaining faithful to the flow and even quirks of Gruffydd’s composition. Many Arthurians and Celticists have long wished for such a book.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Gruffydd spent untold hours using ‘a dizzying combination of sources [some no longer extant] in a variety of languages’ (p. 2), adding personal comments and recollections. As Ford notes, the &lt;em&gt;Chronicle&lt;/em&gt; was inscribed in Gruffydd’s spare time— sometimes hastily—and presents the reader with difficulties beyond just length, such as non-normalized spelling, scarce punctuation, haphazard capitalization, and vagaries in pronoun reference. Both Hunter and Ford are to be commended for their scholarly stubbornness in persisting with the study of the author’s entire &lt;em&gt;oeuvre&lt;/em&gt; and making at least this small portion of it available to modern English readers.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The translated texts are divided into three s","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"7 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589770","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"News from the North American Branch","authors":"","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924600","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; News from the North American Branch &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;p&gt;Website of the IAS-NAB: http://www.international-arthurian-society-nab.org/.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;small&gt;nab officers december 15, 2021–2024 (for full addresses, see: http://www.international-arthuriansociety-nab.org/ contact)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;President&lt;/em&gt;: Joseph M. Sullivan (University of Oklahoma)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Immediate Past President&lt;/em&gt;: David F. Johnson (Florida State University)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Vice President&lt;/em&gt;: Siân Echard (The University of British Columbia)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Secretary–Treasurer&lt;/em&gt;: Jonathan S. Martin (Illinois State University)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Bibliographer&lt;/em&gt;: Ann Howey (Brock University)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Early Career Member&lt;/em&gt;: Margaret Sheble (Independent Scholar)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Graduate Student Member&lt;/em&gt;: Tirumular (Drew) Narayanan (University of Wisconsin, Madison)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arthuriana Editor&lt;/em&gt;: Dorsey Armstrong (Purdue University)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;small&gt;advisory committee&lt;/small&gt;:&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Canadian Representative:&lt;/em&gt; Cory Rushton (St. Francis Xavier University)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Celtic&lt;/em&gt;: Melissa Ridley Elmes (Lindenwood University)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;English&lt;/em&gt;: Molly Martin (University of Indianapolis)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Germanic&lt;/em&gt;: Susanne Hafner (Fordham University)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Post–Medieval&lt;/em&gt;: Usha Vishnuvajjala (SUNY, New Paltz)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Romance Languages&lt;/em&gt;: Kathy Krause (University of Missouri, Kansas City)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;small&gt;past issues of&lt;/small&gt; &lt;em&gt;&lt;small&gt;arthuriana:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;For back issues of &lt;em&gt;Arthuriana&lt;/em&gt;, contact editor Dorsey Armstrong (camelot@purdue.edu) &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 79]&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;h2&gt;&lt;small&gt;ias-nab events, 59&lt;/small&gt;&lt;sup&gt;&lt;small&gt;th&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/sup&gt; &lt;small&gt;international congress on medieval studies (may 9–11, 2024)&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/h2&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;prior to the start of the icms:&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Virtual IAS-NAB Executive and Advisory Committee Meeting&lt;/em&gt;: Saturday, May 4, 2024, 11–12 EDT on Zoom; (Only members of the EAC need or indeed may attend.)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;small&gt;meetings during the icms&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Arthuriana Editorial Board Meeting&lt;/em&gt;: Wednesday, May 8, 2024, 5-6 p.m. EDT, in-person and via Zoom; location Student Center 2207.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;IAS-NAB Business Meeting&lt;/em&gt;: Friday, May 10, 2024, 12–1 p.m. EST, in-person in Student Center 3203 (Open to all members and to all who wish to become members)&lt;/p&gt; &lt;ol&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;1. Adoption of Agenda&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;2. A Note about Awards&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;3. Minutes of 2023 business meetings [as emailed out prior to ICMS and printed in &lt;em&gt;Arthuriana&lt;/em&gt;, 34.1]&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;4. President’s Report&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;5. Recognition of this year’s ICMS speakers from the branch&lt;/p&gt; &lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; &lt;p&gt;6. Secretary","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"17 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages: Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature by Joseph Taylor (review)","authors":"Ann M. Martinez","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924606","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924606","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages: Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature&lt;/em&gt; by Joseph Taylor &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Ann M. Martinez &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;small&gt;joseph taylor&lt;/small&gt;, &lt;em&gt;Writing the North of England in the Middle Ages: Regionalism and Nationalism in Medieval English Literature&lt;/em&gt;. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Pp. xiii, 254. &lt;small&gt;isbn&lt;/small&gt;: 978–1–009–18211–9. $99. &lt;p&gt;The author begins by posing questions of English nationhood and regional identity, with a primary focus on the Middle Ages. From physical to ideological boundaries, he delves into the effects of geographical distance, religious, political, and linguistic divides, stating that ‘In medieval England, the North is not simply “other”; rather, the &lt;strong&gt;[End Page 105]&lt;/strong&gt; broad region comprises a liminal space, both within and without a national frame’ (p. 4). Taylor sets up the North-South divide primarily through the lens of literature, examining relevant authors and texts: beginning with William of Malmesbury and Bede, then on to Chaucer, &lt;em&gt;A Gest of Robyn Hode&lt;/em&gt;, and the Towneley plays. Due to the nature of the book’s focus, the North-South divide and the literature are historically contextualized.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Taylor starts with an overview of the North-South tensions. He then poses seemingly simple questions requiring complicated answers: ‘What is Nation?’ (p. 8) and ‘Where &lt;em&gt;is&lt;/em&gt; the North?’ (p. 13). He constructs a historical scaffold built on conquest, attempted decimation, and constant rebellion, outlining events, battles, and major political players. The first literary examination involves William of Malmesbury and Bede. Taylor reminds readers that a ‘desire to put forward a uniform English identity’ (p. 35) is missing from Bede’s work, as scholars have noted, while his love of Northumbria pervades his writings. Taylor argues that, although William admired Bede, in William’s &lt;em&gt;Gesta Pontificum Anglorum&lt;/em&gt; he omits and overwrites material related to the North found in Bede’s &lt;em&gt;Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum,&lt;/em&gt; showcasing his ‘marked derision of the North’ (p. 36). Taylor notes that for William, Northumbrians are ‘brutal, barbarous of speech, and unwilling to be ruled’ (p. 52), characteristics that make it difficult for William to present a unified nation in his writing.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The author next explores how the divide manifested in medieval English universities. He delves into physical altercations and ideological differences of the ‘so-called university “nations”’ (p. 63), grouping students by region modeled on French practices. Southerners’ stereotypes of Northerners, and vice versa, led to hostilities in Oxford and Cambridge, including deadly altercations, culminating (but not evaporating) with the Stanford Schism, until King E","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"103 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589868","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Courtly Pastimes ed. by Gloria Allaire and Julie Human (review)","authors":"Tara Foster","doi":"10.1353/art.2024.a924602","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/art.2024.a924602","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;span&gt;&lt;span&gt;In lieu of&lt;/span&gt; an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:&lt;/span&gt;\u0000&lt;p&gt; &lt;span&gt;Reviewed by:&lt;/span&gt; &lt;ul&gt; &lt;li&gt;&lt;!-- html_title --&gt; &lt;em&gt;Courtly Pastimes&lt;/em&gt; ed. by Gloria Allaire and Julie Human &lt;!-- /html_title --&gt;&lt;/li&gt; &lt;li&gt; Tara Foster &lt;/li&gt; &lt;/ul&gt; &lt;small&gt;gloria allaire&lt;/small&gt; and &lt;small&gt;julie human&lt;/small&gt;, eds., &lt;em&gt;Courtly Pastimes&lt;/em&gt;. Routledge Medieval Casebooks. New York: Routledge, 2023. Pp. xii, 243. &lt;small&gt;isbn&lt;/small&gt;: 978–1–032–30790–9. $160. &lt;p&gt;&lt;em&gt;Courtly Pastimes&lt;/em&gt;, the most recent entry in the Routledge Medieval Casebooks series, includes sixteen essays that were originally presented at the 2016 Congress of the International Courtly Literature Society hosted by the University of Kentucky in Lexington. The contributors consider a broad scope of ‘activities that furnished occasions for private amusements for the elite as well as their public displays’ (p. 2) between the twelfth and early sixteenth centuries across western Europe.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;The essays are arranged chronologically, and the first four focus primarily on twelfth-century French texts. Laurence Mathey-Maille’s study of Wace’s &lt;em&gt;Roman de Brut&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Roman de Rou&lt;/em&gt; enumerates the various pastimes enjoyed by the ruling classes in Britain (dubbed Brittany in the essay; the people are termed Bretons rather than Britons) and Normandy, noting that they mirror those of Wace’s contemporary audience. In narrating interludes of courtly recreation, Wace ‘initiates many motifs that would be developed in later literary texts, especially courtly romances’ (p. 22). Jeanne A. Nightingale reads one of those romances, Chrétien de Troyes’ &lt;em&gt;Erec et Enide&lt;/em&gt;, against Bernard de Clairvaux’s sermons on the Song of Songs in the next essay. Nightingale proposes a new reading of Chrétien’s work by drawing convincing parallels between the journey of the spiritual bride and bridegroom as presented by Bernard and the transformational &lt;em&gt;aventure&lt;/em&gt; of the romance couple. Janina P. Traxler examines the portrayal of the adulterous lovers in Beroul’s &lt;em&gt;Tristan&lt;/em&gt; and Chrétien’s &lt;em&gt;Cligés&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Charrete&lt;/em&gt;, in which ‘the narrative voice encourages audience sympathy for the lovers via wordplay and dramatic irony’ (p. 45), elements that are largely omitted in the thirteenth-century prose romances of Tristan and Lancelot. In ‘&lt;em&gt;Equitan&lt;/em&gt; as Courtly Diversion or Carnivalesque Subversion?’, Monica L. Wright draws our attention to &lt;em&gt;Equitan&lt;/em&gt;’s shift in register from &lt;em&gt;lai&lt;/em&gt; to &lt;em&gt;fabliau&lt;/em&gt; and posits that this shift has its roots in the carnival tradition of transgression and inversion of social order; Wright identifies traces of carnivalesque subversion in the Mardi Gras celebrations of modern rural Louisiana.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Moving to German traditions, Christopher R. Clason studies the interplay between nature and culture in Gottfried von Strassburg’s &lt;em&gt;Tristan&lt;/em&gt;, arguing that ‘one can define the “ecology” of the work as both courtly space","PeriodicalId":43123,"journal":{"name":"Arthuriana","volume":"42 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.1,"publicationDate":"2024-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140589802","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}