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Approaches to Arthurian Studies: from Tradition to Innovation

Approaches to Arthurian Studies: from Tradition to Innovation ‘The history of the book is a way of thinking about how people have given material form to knowledge and stories. Knowledge and stories are intangible; it is their material forms that make them accessible across the barriers created by time and space.’Leslie Howsam, “The Study of Book History”, in The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) p. 1.The Arthurian legends are perhaps the ultimate example of a set of stories that have proliferated over such varied territories (temporal, geographic and linguistic) that it is now difficult to achieve even a partial overview of the whole constellation of texts and media they have inspired. Book and publishing histories can provide a path to explore the ways in which pieces of this puzzle fit into not only a vast body of literature and scholarship, but also the culture(s) they inhabited and influenced in their turn. Examining the materiality of different texts, and thus attempting to understand not only how those texts came to be written, but also how they were acted upon by the different agencies contained within the communications circuit (e.g. editors, printers, publishers, booksellers as well as their projected, potential and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the International Arthurian Society de Gruyter

Approaches to Arthurian Studies: from Tradition to Innovation

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‘The history of the book is a way of thinking about how people have given material form to knowledge and stories. Knowledge and stories are intangible; it is their material forms that make them accessible across the barriers created by time and space.’Leslie Howsam, “The Study of Book History”, in The Cambridge Companion to the History of the Book (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2015) p. 1.The Arthurian legends are perhaps the ultimate example of a set of stories that have proliferated over such varied territories (temporal, geographic and linguistic) that it is now difficult to achieve even a partial overview of the whole constellation of texts and media they have inspired. Book and publishing histories can provide a path to explore the ways in which pieces of this puzzle fit into not only a vast body of literature and scholarship, but also the culture(s) they inhabited and influenced in their turn. Examining the materiality of different texts, and thus attempting to understand not only how those texts came to be written, but also how they were acted upon by the different agencies contained within the communications circuit (e.g. editors, printers, publishers, booksellers as well as their projected, potential and

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Journal of the International Arthurian Society – de Gruyter

Published: Dec 1, 2017

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