Arthurian Literature XXXVI

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.

• General Editors' PrefaceList of ContributorsIntroduction: Sacred Space and Place in Arthurian Romance, Sarah Bowden and Susanne Friede1. The Church and the Otherworld: Sacred Spaces in the Matière de Bretagne and Medieval IrelandJohn Carey2. Sacred Spaces: the Syntagmatic and Paradigmatic construction of Narrated Space in Chrétien's Conte du GraalSusanne Friede3. Perceiving the Way: Sacred Spaces and Imaginary Pilgrimage in the Vulgate Cycle Queste del Saint Graal and Thomas Malory's 'Tale of the Sankgreal'Martha Claire Baldon4. Affirming Absence and Embracing Nothing: on the Paradoxical Place of Heterosexual Sex in Medieval French Verse RomanceCharlie Samuelson5. Spaces of Remorse: Penitential Allusions in IweinSarah Bowden6. The Spatial Narratives of Salvation and Damnation in Wigalois and the Prose LancelotAndreas Hammer7. 'Fantoum and Fayryȝe': Visions of the End of Arthurian BritainVictoria Flood8. The Tomb of the Kings: Imperial Space in Arthur's CamelotCory James Rushton

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.