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Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT Guest Editors: Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer This special issue focuses on space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections between quest space and individual spirituality in the Vulgate Queste and Malory's Morte Darthur; penitence in Hartmann's Iwein and Gregorius; parallels in sacred spaces in the Matter of Britain and medieval Ireland; political prophecy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Awntyrs off Arthure A; syntagmatic and paradigmatic spaces in Chretien's Perceval; spatial significance in Wigalois and Prosa Lancelot; the political meaning of the tomb of King Lot and the rebel kings in Malory's Morte Darthur; and sexual spaces in twelfth-century French romance.

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Its tight thematic focus - sacred space and place in Arthurian romance - allows a deeper exploration of the different facets of these texts' sacred spaces ... Such a focus makes this book an essential contribution to the growing body of scholarship on Arthurian spaces and places. -- Mary Bateman * Archiv *

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MEGAN G. LEITCH is the Professor and Chair of Medieval English Literature and Culture at the University of Groningen. K. S. WHETTER is Professor of English at Acadia University, Nova Scotia.

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