Medieval Arthurian Epic and Romance

William W. Kibler is the Superior Oil-Linward Shivers Centennial Professor of Medieval Studies (emeritus) at the University of Texas. He is the author or editor of numerous works on medieval French literature and language, including, as translator, the romances of Chrétien de Troyes. He lives in Austin, Texas. R. Barton Palmer is the Calhoun Lemon Professor of Literature at Clemson University. He has published numerous works on the English, French, and Latin literature of the later Middle Ages, and is the translator, with William Kibler and others, of several anthologies of medieval texts. He lives in Atlanta, Georgia.

• Table of ContentsPrefacePart I: Arthurian EpicGeoffrey of Monmouth. Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain): A Selection (Translated by Douglas McFarland)Wace. Roman de Brut (The Romance of Brutus): A Selection (Translated by R. Barton Palmer)Lawman. Brut: A Selection (Translated by R. Barton Palmer)Part II: Arthurian RomanceArthur in Early Wales/Culhwch and Owen (Translated by Craig Davis)Chrétien de Troyes. Perceval (The Story of the Grail) (Translated by William W. Kibler)Perlesvaus (Le Haut Livre du Graal): Selections (Translated by William W. Kibler)La Queste del Saint Graal (The Quest of the Holy Grail): Selections (Translated by R. Barton Palmer)La Mule sans Frein (The Girl with the Mule) (Translated by William W. Kibler) Selected BibliographyAbout the ContributorsIndex

“a most welcome addition to the repertoire of Arthurian texts in translation”—Speculum.