The Legends of King Arthur

This anthology gathers medieval and later Arthurian narratives in translation, grouped around the king himself, the Tristan story, and the Grail. Typical sources include Geoffrey of Monmouth's founding history, accounts of Arthur's last campaign, Bedier's Tristan and Iseult, the High Book of the Grail, and Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival, with linking commentary that sets each extract in the growth of the legend. The volume is a reader rather than a single author's romance: it shows how different centuries treated Arthur's court, adulterous love, and the quest for the Grail without reducing them to one continuous novel.

Bound in dark green cloth blocked with a design. Dark green slipcase.