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The early thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle (or Vulgate Cycle) brings together the stories of Arthur with those of the Grail, a conjunction of materials that continues to fascinate the Western imagination today. Representing what is probably the earliest large-scale use of prose for fiction in the West, it also exemplifies the taste for big cyclic compositions that shaped much of European narrative fiction for three centuries. A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle is the first comprehensive volume devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle and its medieval legacy. The twenty essays in this volume, all by internationally known scholars, locate the work in its social, historical, literary, and manuscript contexts. In addition to addressing critical issues in the five texts that make up the Cycle, the contributors convey to modern readers the appeal that the text must have had for its medieval audiences, and the richness of composition that made it compelling. This volume will become standard reading for scholars, students, and more general readers interested in the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, medieval romance, Malory studies, and the Arthurian legends. Contributors: RICHARD BARBER, EMMANUELE BAUMGARTNER, FANNI BOGDANOW, FRANK BRANDSMA, MATILDA T. BRUCKNER, CAROL J. CHASE, ANNIE COMBES, HELEN COOPER, CAROL R. DOVER, MICHAEL HARNEY, DONALD L. HOFFMAN, DOUGLAS KELLY, ELSPETH KENNEDY, NORRIS J. LACY, ROGER MIDDLETON, HAQUIRA OSAKABE, HANS-HUGO STEINHOFF, ALISON STONES, RICHARD TRACHSLER. CAROL DOVER is associate professor of French and director of undergraduate studies, Georgetown University, Washington DC.

Grail --- Arthurian romances. --- Legends --- History and criticism. --- Lancelot --- Romances --- Lancelot (Prose cycle) --- Lancelot, --- Launcelot --- Launcelot, --- Lannzilet --- Lanzelet --- Ланселот --- Lanselot --- Lanselod --- Lawnslot --- Λάνσελοτ --- Lanzarote, --- Lanceloto --- Lantzelot, --- Lancillotto --- Lancillotto, --- Lancelotto --- Lancellotto --- לנסלוט, --- ランスロット --- Ransurotto --- Lancelote --- Lançarote --- Ланселот, --- Lanselot, --- Lancelot-Graal (Prose cycle) --- Cycle de Lancelot --- Cycle du Lancelot-Graal --- Lancelot-Grail cycle --- Lanzarote del Lago (Prose cycle) --- Vulgate cycle --- Pseudo-Map cycle --- Vulgate arthurienne (Prose cycle) --- Lancelot en prose (Cycle) --- Prose Lancelot (Cycle) --- Arthurian legends. --- French prose. --- Lancelot-Grail Cycle. --- Malory. --- literary context. --- medieval romance. --- Lancelot (Legendary character)

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Brepols’ multiple-volume series The Lancelot Prose of Yale 229 includes illustrated text editions of l’Agrauains, La Queste del Saint Graal, and La Mort le Roi Artu, along with a collection of essays based on the thirteenth-century manuscript, Yale 229, housed at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale University. An additional collection of essays, a guide to the decoration of the manuscript, and a searchable corpus text are projected for the series.

Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- Romans de la Table ronde --- 091 <73 NEW HAVEN> --- 091 =40 --- 840 "12" LANCELOT --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--NEW HAVEN --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frans --- Franse literatuur--?"12"--LANCELOT --- 840 "12" LANCELOT Franse literatuur--?"12"--LANCELOT --- 091 =40 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Frans --- 091 <73 NEW HAVEN> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--NEW HAVEN --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Flemish --- Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval --- Painting, Medieval --- Flemish illumination of books and manuscripts --- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. --- Lancelot (Prose cycle) --- Lancelot-Graal (Prose cycle) --- Cycle de Lancelot --- Cycle du Lancelot-Graal --- Lancelot-Grail cycle --- Lanzarote del Lago (Prose cycle) --- Vulgate cycle --- Pseudo-Map cycle --- Vulgate arthurienne (Prose cycle) --- Lancelot en prose (Cycle) --- Prose Lancelot (Cycle) --- Lancelot (Legendary character) --- Romances --- Manuscripts --- Arthurian romances --- History and criticism

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This is a study of four colossal medieval works - the Cycle de Guillaume d'Orange, the Vulgate Cycle, the Prose Tristan and the Roman de Renart - which are normally considered separately. By placing them side-by-side for analysis, Luke Sunderland is able to argue for an aesthetic of cyclicity that cuts across genre. He combines detailed readings of the narrative infrastructure of each cycle with attention to the shifts and transformations that come with successive acts of rewriting.
Old French Narrative Cycles focuses in particular on revisions and controversies around heroic figures, arguing that competition between alternative heroes within these texts makes them a discourse on heroism. Using a theoretical framework deriving from Lacanian psychoanalysis, the study reveals anxieties surrounding the hero's relationship to the "good": the hero oscillates between support for moral ideals and subversive assertions of freedom that can lead to evil and death. Ultimately, it is contended that the instability of the hero as conduit for morality produces textual confusion and generates the myriad differing versions of these vast and perplexing works.

LUKE SUNDERLAND is Lecturer in the School of Modern Languages and Cultures, University of Durham.

French fiction --- Romances --- Heroes in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Guillaume d'Orange (Chansons de geste) --- Lancelot (Prose cycle) --- Roman de Renart. --- Tristan de Léonois. --- Roman de Tristan en prose. --- French literature --- Chivalric romances --- Chivalry --- Courtly romances --- French romances --- Medieval romances --- Romances, French --- Romans courtois --- Literature, Medieval --- Roman en prose de Tristan --- Prose Tristan --- Tristan en prose --- Tristan (Prose romance) --- Tristan de Léonois --- Tristan cheualier de la Table ronde --- Tristan chevalier de la Table ronde --- Tristan filz du noble roy Meliadus de Leonois --- Tristan filz du puissant roy Meliadus de Leonnoys --- Tristan of Leonnoys --- Reinaert --- Lancelot-Graal (Prose cycle) --- Cycle de Lancelot --- Cycle du Lancelot-Graal --- Lancelot-Grail cycle --- Lanzarote del Lago (Prose cycle) --- Vulgate cycle --- Pseudo-Map cycle --- Vulgate arthurienne (Prose cycle) --- Lancelot en prose (Cycle) --- Prose Lancelot (Cycle) --- Guillaume (Chansons de geste) --- Cycle of Guillaume d'Orange --- Narbonnais (Chanson de geste) --- Girard de Viane (Chanson de geste) --- Guillaume (Chanson de geste) --- Geste de Garin de Monglane --- Heroes in literature --- History and criticism --- Ethics. --- France. --- Heroism. --- Medieval Cycles. --- Morality. --- Renart. --- Tristan.