Arthurian Literature XVII: Originality and Tradition in the Middle Dutch Roman Van Walewein

This new volume of Arthurian Literature, the first under its new editor Keith Busby, is devoted to the 'Roman van Walewein' (The Romance of Walewein Gawain]) by Penninc and Pieter Vostaert, an undisputed gem of Middle Dutch literature which has recently become accessible to an English-speaking audience through translation. Essentially a fairy-tale written into Arthurian romance, it presents a Gawain quite different to the man found in the English...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0859915468
• ISBN13: 9780859915465
• Release Date: September 1999
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.6" x 9.5"