CONGRESS CANCELED Beyond Guenevere and Morgan: Other Arthurian Queens
Description
Some of the most renowned characters in the Arthurian legend are the various queens who inspire knights to go off on adventures in pursuit of honor or love; other queens are sinister and malicious, challenging the knightly chivalric ethos and those who are its primary exemplars. Throughout the tradition of Arthurian literature, we find queens as complex and nuanced characters who can alternately—and even simultaneously—strong, independent, supportive, submissive, transgressional, contradictory, revolutionary, inspirational, and more. While Guenevere and Morgan le Fay are the two queens most often engaged in scholarly/critical analysis, this session seeks papers on lesser-studied/discussed Arthurian queens. We solicit papers that explore aspects of the “lesser Arthurian queens” from any particular Arthurian literary tradition (French, English, German, Iberian, Celtic, and beyond), any time period (from the medieval to the modern), and any genre. Dorsey Armstrong
CONGRESS CANCELED Beyond Guenevere and Morgan: Other Arthurian Queens
Sangren 1740
Some of the most renowned characters in the Arthurian legend are the various queens who inspire knights to go off on adventures in pursuit of honor or love; other queens are sinister and malicious, challenging the knightly chivalric ethos and those who are its primary exemplars. Throughout the tradition of Arthurian literature, we find queens as complex and nuanced characters who can alternately—and even simultaneously—strong, independent, supportive, submissive, transgressional, contradictory, revolutionary, inspirational, and more. While Guenevere and Morgan le Fay are the two queens most often engaged in scholarly/critical analysis, this session seeks papers on lesser-studied/discussed Arthurian queens. We solicit papers that explore aspects of the “lesser Arthurian queens” from any particular Arthurian literary tradition (French, English, German, Iberian, Celtic, and beyond), any time period (from the medieval to the modern), and any genre. Dorsey Armstrong