Dr. Goldstein
ENGL 4610
Fall 2003

Welcome to the Home Page for Arthurian Literature

(This page is primarily intended for students of ENGL 4610)

Course Materials

• Course Syllabus (lists textbooks, assignments, policies and procedures)

• Revised Schedule (complete schedule for last part of syllabus)

• Essay 1 (assignment)

• Essay 2 (assigned on 10/24/03)

• Group Presentations (assigned on 9/15)

• Additional Instructions for Handout (posted 10/13/03)

• Study Guide for Midterm Exam

• Study Guide for Final Exam

Web Resources

University students should always exercise critical judgment when conducting "research" on the web, especially for Arthurian matters, a topic which attracts an huge number of popular web sites (usually with .com domains) that have little or no value for serious scholarship.  The following sites, however, are generally trustworthy for academic audiences.

• Camelot Project at the University of Rochester

Arthurian Texts, Images, Bibliographies and Basic Information.

• Arthurian Resources (Thomas Greene, Exeter College, Oxford)

A good scholarly resource on early medieval materials.

• Arthur Complete (Home page of Arthuriana: The Journal of Arthurian Studies)

Includes link to online database of Arthuriana articles since vol. 5.3 (Fall 1995): some earlier years are available without subscription as either html or pdf files.

• A Page for Arthurnet (links for users of listserv Arthurnet).

Includes useful chart of the growth of Arthurian legend.

• The Charette Project (Princeton University)

Complex scholarly web resource on the Old French text of Chrétien's Lancelot; mostly too advanced for undergraduates, but contains excellent digital images of the original medieval manuscripts, including many color miniature illuminations.  Especially useful for students is the outline summary of episodes that appears at the end of the "Introduction to Chrétien's Romance."

• Periodical Historic Atlas of Europe

Useful historical maps.

• ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies

Highly useful general site for medieval studies.  Includes links to the IMS: Internet Medieval Sourcebook, an archive of translations of primary sources.  Items of particular interest to students of early Arthurian narrative are the relevant excerpts from "Nennius," History of the Britons (Historia Brittonum (8th cent.), containing the earliest narrative account of Arthur; and Gerald of Wales's account of the supposed discovery of King Arthur's tomb at Glastonbury Abbey in 1191.

• Outline of introductory lecture on the beginnings of medieval romance

From my course in Medieval Romance (EH 406) in Spring 2000; includes titles and approximate dates of the romans d'antiquité (romances of antiquity).

• Handout: The Generation after Chrétien

Outlines continuations of Perceval, works of Robert de Boron, and Vulgate cycle of prose romances.

• BBC News in Welsh (to hear what modern Welsh sounds like)

Page created: 08/18/03

Last updated: 08/06/04