CML Videoseminar. Nicola Morato, "Arthurian prose romances and medieval text culture: time, space, networks"

Nicola Morato (University of Liège) will be speaking on "Arthurian prose romances and medieval text culture: time, space, networks."

Abstract

The first phase of Arthurian cyclification happened in the first half of the 13th century, in a time span of at most three decades. What do we know about it? Many of the principal questions of geochronology remain unresolved. For instance, four of the five WH questions – who, when, where, and why – can only be partially answered. Drawing on the complementary approaches and results of two recent projects, Medieval Francophone Literary Culture Outside France(2011-2014) and Gruppo Guiron (2009-2019), we will present some of the main issues relating to the formation and circulation of Old French Arthurian prose narratives across Western Europe and the Mediterranean in the 13th-15th century, from the point of view of material, textual and documentary evidence.

Image: Paris, BnF n.a.f. 5243, f. 67r.