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The Continuations of Guiron le Courtois : A Recent Edition in the Light of Current Research

The Continuations of Guiron le Courtois : A Recent Edition in the Light of Current Research JIAS 2016; 4(1): 157­171 Book Review * DOI 10.1515/jias-2016-0012 `Guiron le Courtois'. Roman arthurien en prose du XIIIe siècle, ed. by Venceslas Bubenicek (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. viii+1278, 6 ill. b/n (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 363) £253. The labour of publishing modern scholarly editions of the Old French Arthurian prose romances has continued steadily in the last ten years, bringing a handful of additional significant works to the comprehensive surveys by P. Ménard (2005) and by T. Hunt (2006).1 While many are second, third, or later generation editions, some provide the first modern scholarly edition of the texts that otherwise could only be read directly in manuscripts or early modern editions. Two of the most remarkable achievements are the edition of the so-called first version of the Prose Tristan completed in 2007 by a team directed by Ménard and that of Perceforest, begun by J. Taylor in 1979 and carried forward from 1987 by G. Roussineau, who completed it in 2015 with the publication of the sixth volume.2 This availability of the texts prompted a new wave of literary studies, which had the healthy effect of reducing if not completely filling the long-lasting http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the International Arthurian Society de Gruyter

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JIAS 2016; 4(1): 157­171 Book Review * DOI 10.1515/jias-2016-0012 `Guiron le Courtois'. Roman arthurien en prose du XIIIe siècle, ed. by Venceslas Bubenicek (Berlin and Boston: De Gruyter, 2015), pp. viii+1278, 6 ill. b/n (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 363) £253. The labour of publishing modern scholarly editions of the Old French Arthurian prose romances has continued steadily in the last ten years, bringing a handful of additional significant works to the comprehensive surveys by P. Ménard (2005) and by T. Hunt (2006).1 While many are second, third, or later generation editions, some provide the first modern scholarly edition of the texts that otherwise could only be read directly in manuscripts or early modern editions. Two of the most remarkable achievements are the edition of the so-called first version of the Prose Tristan completed in 2007 by a team directed by Ménard and that of Perceforest, begun by J. Taylor in 1979 and carried forward from 1987 by G. Roussineau, who completed it in 2015 with the publication of the sixth volume.2 This availability of the texts prompted a new wave of literary studies, which had the healthy effect of reducing if not completely filling the long-lasting

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Published: Oct 1, 2016

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