Essays on the Lancelot of Yale 229

146 Pages·2000·75.051 MB·English

by  Elizabeth M. Willingham

ESSAYS ON THE LANCELOT OF YALE 229

ESSAYS ON
THE LANCELOT
OF YALE 229
ELIZABETH M. WILLINGHAM, Editor
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Dedication
We dedicate this book and its labors to our families and loved ones who have helped
each of us in so many mundane and extraordinary ways to fulfill our promises.
We pay particular homage to a beautiful woman,taken from her family and friends most
unexpectedly in 2001.Her gracious manner,wide erudition,subtle wit,and keen
intellect gave us all an embracing welcome,a warm home away from home,
and a high model of scholarship that inspired and challenged us.
With affection,
we dedicate this collection
to the memory of
Naomi Schor
October 10,1943 - December 2,2001
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Table of Contents
Acknowledgements IX
Elizabeth Moore Willingham
Editor’s Introduction 1
Lynn T.Ramey
Images of Rebellion:The Social and Political Context of the Images of Yale 229’s
La Mort le Roi Artus 7
Ronald E.Pepin
Walter Map and Yale MS 229 15
Nancy B.Black
Mapping Time and Space in the Arthurian Landscape of Yale 229 19
Joan E.McRae and William Nelles
Text and Context:The Production of Images in Yale MS 229 29
Virginie Greene
The Style of the Scribe:A Comparison between Yale 229 and Frappier's Manuscript,
Arsenal 3347 39
R.Howard Bloch
The Animals in the Margins of Yale 229 63
Stacey L.Hahn
The Enigmatic Contours of the Bed in Yale 229 69
Walter Blue
A Reflection on the Inexorable Working of Fate in Yale MS 229 89
Elizabeth Moore Willingham
The Gaze of the Beholder:Yale 229 and the Medieval World View 93
Works Cited 103
Contributors’Biographies 109
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Acknowledgements
The editor and essayists gratefully acknowledge their indebtedness to R.Howard Bloch and M.Alison
Stones,whose work on Yale 229 has brought it from obscurity into the realm of productive literary
criticism,text study,art history,and Arthurian and medieval scholarship.We are deeply appreciative of
the support of our colleagues and friends Nina Dulin Mallory,Kathy Krause,Joyce Coleman,and
Elisa Mader.We thank the staff and librarians of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library for
offering us their untiring expertise and accommodation in making the manuscript and other resources
of the Yale Libraries available to us.The Beinecke staff’s achievement in the new digitization of the
manuscript and their maintenance of the older digital pages of the catalogue have been indispensable
to our work.We also thank our universities,deans,and departments for release time and other forms
of support so generously given.To the National Endowment for the Humanities,our thanks for
bringing the Yale 229 editorial group together at Yale under the guidance of R.Howard Bloch.Their
continuing advice and support have been invaluable.Finally,we note with deep appreciation the vision,
patience,and guidance of our editor Johan Van der Beke.To Johan and to our friends at Brepols,
Editor Simon Forde,Production and Logistics Manager Jean Verstraete,and General Manager Paul De
Jongh,we are indebted for their dedication,expertise,and vigilance.
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