The Arthur of the Iberians
The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds
9781783162413
Distributed for University of Wales Press
The Arthur of the Iberians
The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds
Though we think of King Arthur as archetypically British, the spread of the Arthurian legends was international, extending, among other places, to the Iberian Peninsula, where they had a deep influence and inspired such literary works as the chivalric romances parodied by Cervantes in Don Quixote. Iberia was also the conduit through which these legends travelled to the Americas. The Arthur of the Iberians explores not only medieval and Renaissance texts, but also modern Arthurian fiction, the global spread of the legends in the Spanish and Portuguese worlds, and the social impacts of Arthur and the Round Table through adoption of names and imitation of the practices narrated in the legends.
576 pages | 7 x 9 1/2 | © 2015
Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
Literature and Literary Criticism: British and Irish Literature

Reviews
Table of Contents
Preface
Ad Putter
List of Contributions
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. Arthurian Material in Iberia
Paloma Gracia
2. The Surviving Peninsular Arthurian Witnesses: A Description and an Analysis
José Manuel Lucia Megias
3. Arthurian Literature in Portugal
Santiago Gutiérrez Garcia
4. The Matiére de Bratagne in Galicia from the XIIth to the XVth Century
Pilar Lorenzo Gradin
5. The Matiére de Bratagne in the Corona de Aragón
Lourdes Soriano Robles
6. The Matter of Britain in Spanish Society and Literature form Cluny to Cervantes
Carlos Alvar
7. The Post-Vulgate Cycle in the Iberian Peninsula
Paloma Gracia
8. The Hispanic Versions of the Lancelot en Prose: Lanzarote del Lago and Lancalot
Antonio Contreras
9. The Iberian Tristan Texts from the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Maria Luzdivina Cuesta Torre
10. Amadis de Gaula
Rafael Ramos
11. Arthur Goes Global: Arthurian Material in Hispanic and Portugese America and Asia
David Hook
12. The Contemporary Return of the Matter of Britain to Iberian Letters (XIXth to XXIst Centuries)
Juan Miguel Zarandona
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
Index
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