Více než 4 miliony titulů v angličtině i dalších jazycích! Objevte svůj nový příběh ještě dnes!

Zjistit stav objednávky

Kontaktujte nás

Perceforest Reader

Selected Episodes from Perceforest: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain

Autor: Nigel Bryant

Jazyk:

Vazba: Brožovaná

Vydavatel: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Dostupnost: Skladem u dodavatele

Odesíláme za 9-15 dnů

598 Kč

Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romance...

Informace o knize

Autor

Nigel Bryant

Jazyk

Angličtina

Vazba

Kniha - Brožovaná

Vydáno

2012

Stránek

128

EAN

9781843842903

ISBN

1843842904

Enbook ID

04455500

Vydavatel

Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Hmotnost

150

Rozměry

210 x 131 x 7

Kompletní popis

Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as "an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry" and "a mine of folkloric motifs". Its contents are drawn not only from earlier Arthurian material, but also from romances about Alexander the Great, from Roman histories and from medieval travel writing - not to mention oral tradition, including as it does the first and unexpurgated version of the story of the Sleeping Beauty. Out of this, the author creates a remarkable prehistory of King Arthur's Britain, describing how Alexander the Great gives the island to Perceforest, who has to purge the island of magic-wielding knights descended from Darnant the Enchanter, despite their supernatural powers. Perceforest then founds the knightly order of the "Franc Palais", an ideal of chivalric civilisation which prefigures the Round Table of Arthur and indeed that of Edward III; but that civilisation is, as the author shows, all too fragile. The action all takes place in a pagan world of many gods, but the temple of the Sovereign God, discovered by Perceforest, prefigures the Christian world and the coming of the Grail and Arthur. Nigel Bryant has recently adapted this immense romance into English; even in his version, which gives a complete account of the whole work but links extensive sections of full translation with compressed accounts of other passages, it runs to nearly half a million words. A Perceforest Reader is an ideal introduction to the remarkable world portrayed in this late flowering of the Arthurian imagination.

Nejčastěji hledané

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Nejčastěji hledané

Categories

Authors

Publishers

Produkty

Produkty

Perceforest Reader

Selected Episodes from Perceforest: The Prehistory of Arthur's Britain

Informace o knize

Kompletní popis

Mohlo by vás zajímat

Zákaznicí kteří koupili tuto knihu koupili také