Friedrich Wolfzettel

Cora Dietl

Christoph Schanze

Matthias Däumer

Brigitte Burrichter

Sixty-five years after the founding of the International Arthurian Society, Arthurian researchers are examining how they can contribute to modern cultural and literary studies. Using the example of several European Arthurian epics, the articles in this volume explore key questions from diverse fields, including gender studies, spirituality research, literary sociology, violence research, narratology, and media cultural science.

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The court of King Arthur, the center of the Arthurian romances that were so popular in the Middle Ages, is illuminated anew in this book from an interdisciplinary perspective as an institution which is fictionally staged, stabilized and problematized. The book explores the forces, figures and positions that constitute or endanger the court as a picture of society in miniature or as a literary experiment. Finally, the contributions critically question the ideality of the court of King Arthur and investigate the function and reception of the court even in contexts remote from courts. "

Matthias Däumer

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