Arthurian Literature XXVII

<b><i>Arthurian Literature</i> has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. Delivers some fascinating material across genres periods and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT</b><br><br>The influence and significance of the legend of Arthur are fully demonstrated by the subject matter and time-span of articles here. Topics range from early Celtic sources and analogues of Arthurian plots to popular interest in King Arthur in sixteenth-century London from the thirteenth-century French prose <i>Mort Artu</i> to Tennyson's <i>Idylls of the King</i>. It includes discussion of shapeshifters and loathly ladies attitudes to treason royal deaths and funerals in the fifteenth century and the nineteenth late medieval Scottish politics and early modern chivalry.<br><br> Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English University of Durhaml; Professor David F. Johnson teaches in the English Department Florida State University Tallahassee.<br><br> Contributors: Aisling Byrne Emma Campbell P.J.C. Field Kenneth Hodges Megan Leitch Andrew Lynch Sue Niebrzydowski Karen Robinson.