Lancelot-Grail: 5 Volumes (Routledge Revivals): The Old French Vulgate & Post-Vulgate Cycles in Translation (Routledge Revivals: Lancelot-Grail) 1st Edition

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The Arthurian episodic romance, which includes the love story of Lancelot and Guinevere and the Quest for the Grail are enduringly popular tales, but ones with a very complex history. These five volumes collect together and offer translations of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle (also known as the Vulgate Cycle) and the later Post-Vulgate Cycle.

The influence of these Cycles is almost incalculable; they have been translated or adapted into a number of languages and have been the source or basis for many writers, including Sir Thomas Malory, though they also act as great works in their own right.

For ease of use, each volume is divided into numbered and titled sections or chapters, summaries of all romances, keyed to chapter divisions, are included in the final volume (V) and notes give information about textual and cultural matters and offer a key to internal cross references.

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Norris J. Lacy is an American scholar focusing on French medieval literature. He is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of French and Medieval Studies at the Pennsylvania State University. He is a leading expert on the Arthurian legend and has written and edited numerous books, papers, and articles on the topic.

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Series: Routledge Revivals: Lancelot-Grail
Hardcover: 1888 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (April 20, 2010)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 041587727X
ISBN-13: 978-0415877275
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just what my son wanted

December 4, 2012

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This was a present for my son who is a writer and researcher who is developing an atlas of Arthurian legends. He is finding it very helpful, though he says the translation is sometimes based on a single meaning of a phrase that can be interpreted in several ways.

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Necessary and enjoyable, but inaccessible

December 28, 2010

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Having read and studied extensively about 70% of all Arthurian sources printed in English today, I was waiting expectantly for this book series to finally be published, hoping to finally gain some insight into some of the back stories of the lesser characters in Malory. I bought it for myself, as a guilty pleasure, and have not regretted the purchase, I just don't know when I'm going to have the will power or time to tackle it in the near future. I whizzed through the bottom 600 pages of Malory in about 2 weeks, and knocked out de Troyes, von Eschenbach (c.f. Death in Venice), Geoffrey, Nennius, The Mabinogeon, Gawain and the Green Knight, etc., and all the modern classics in the following month, while working full-time. But I can honestly say I've only had the heart to read the first 4 pages of the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, leaving probably 4,000 more to be read. It is dreary, slow-moving stuff, treading much of the same ground as Malory but doing so in as pedantic a manner as possible. Each story is dragged out unnecessarily to include seemingly frame-by-frame descriptions of heavenly creatures and dogmas, over and over again (I leafed through the rest of the volumes and they don't get much better). Wisely, Malory cut through all this dross and produced a flawed, but eminently readable 'studio cut' as it were of these tomes. Read Malory instead, and if you are so inclined to venture into the Doldrums of the Vulgate Cycle, do so at your own financial and psychological peril. j/k. I am glad I purchased them and will read them one day, perhaps after I get my Masters in Arthurian Studies, from Cambridge lol.

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