IMC 2023: Sessions
Session 537: Literary Entanglements: Arthurian Motifs and Characters in the Iberian Peninsula
Tuesday 4 July 2023, 09.00-10.30
| Organiser: | Rafaela Silva, Universidade Portucalense Infante D. Henrique (UPT) / Faculdade de Letras, Universidade do Porto |
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| Moderator/Chair: | Ana Sofia Laranjinha, Department of Humanities, Universidade Aberta / Instituto de Filosofia, Universidade do Porto |
| Paper 537-a | The Queen and Her Knights: Social Entanglements in Iberian Arthurian Literature (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Mentalities |
| Paper 537-b | Galaaz: rédempteur de la chevalerie ou allégorie d'un disciple du Christ (Language: Français) Index terms: Biblical Studies, Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - French or Occitan, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese |
| Paper 537-c | What Remains after Avalon?: Arthurian Interfigurality in 16th-Century Portuguese Prose Fiction (Language: English) Index terms: Language and Literature - Comparative, Language and Literature - Spanish or Portuguese, Mentalities |
| Abstract | Adopting a comparative approach, this session explores some ideological representations conveyed in two different phases of the reception of Arthurian Prose romance in the Iberian Peninsula: the early translation of the romance cycle into Iberian languages during the 13th-14th Century and the transformation of some Arthurian characters in the 16th Century. In the first paper, Eduarda Rabaçal discusses the social behavioral patterns which entangle Guinevere and chivalry in Arthurian literature. Having chosen as sources the Castilian Lançarote de Lago and the Portuguese Demanda do Santo Graal, the author explores the relationship between the queen and the knights who served her as a way to legitimate her royal position as well as to prove chivalry's supremacy. In the second paper, Rafaela Silva focuses on biblical ideology and intertextuality used to highlight the redemptive characterization of Galahad in the French and Iberian versions of the romance that end the 'Lancelot-Graal' cycle. Comparing the Demanda do Santo Graal and the Queste del Saint Graal, the author seeks to underline the purpose and effect of biblical modeling on the profile and quest of the Arthurian hero. In the final paper, Pedro Monteiro considers Arthur's and Sagramor's characters' adaptation into a 16th Century Portuguese chivalric romance (Memorial da Segunda Távola Redonda), aiming to emphasize the ideological transformations of chivalry representations in the early modern period. What remains from the medieval texts? What changed? And why did it change? |