HKA-001676Literary Tradition
The Beheading Game as a Medieval Romance Motif
The Beheading Game as a Medieval Romance Motif in the historical record and folklore.
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HKA-001673Literary Tradition
The Green Chapel in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
The Green Chapel in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in British folklore and historical tradition.
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The Green Knight’s Challenge at Arthur’s Court
The Green Knight's Challenge at Arthur's Court in British folklore and historical tradition.
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A Gest of Robyn Hode in Early Print
An early printed Robin Hood narrative and what it reveals about the transmission of the outlaw legend.
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Robin Hood and the Sheriff of Nottingham
The Sheriff of Nottingham as Robin Hood's opponent in the developing English ballad tradition.
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The Robin Hood Garland and Early Ballad Tradition
How Robin Hood ballads circulated in printed garlands, and why the texts are literary evidence rather than a biography.
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The Victorian Miniature Winged Fairy
The familiar image of a tiny fairy with wings became especially prominent in nineteenth-century British painting, illustrated books and theatre. The visual form proved enduring in children’s publishing. Earlier British fairy narratives vary considerably…
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Richard Doyle and Victorian Fairy Illustration
Richard Doyle was among the nineteenth-century British illustrators whose elaborate fairy imagery helped establish the pictorial language of small supernatural figures, flowers, woods and playful miniature worlds. Victorian fairy illustration belongs to a later…
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Malory’s Le Morte Darthur and the English Arthur
Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur, composed in the fifteenth century and printed by William Caxton in 1485, gathered a wide range of Arthurian material into one of the tradition’s most influential English forms.…
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The Round Table Enters Arthurian Tradition
The Round Table became part of Arthurian tradition through twelfth-century literary development. Wace’s Roman de Brut, written in Anglo-Norman French, helped popularise the image of a circular table around which Arthur’s great knights could…
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Arthur and Camlann in the Annales Cambriae
The medieval Welsh chronicle known as the Annales Cambriae associates Arthur with Mount Badon and with Camlann, where Arthur and Medraut are said to have fallen. These notices belong to an important early layer…
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Arthur as Battle Leader in the Historia Brittonum
The Historia Brittonum, generally associated with the early ninth century, presents Arthur as a martial leader rather than the fully developed king of later romance. It assigns him a sequence of victories and connects…
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