Reviews for Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook

The average rating for Lancelot and Guinevere: A Casebook based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2014-09-26 00:00:00 Jesse Empey A Casebook with over a dozen essays looking at the depiction of two of the most famous characters in the King Arthur mythos. The Introduction (by Lori J. Walters) is a very impressive view of the development of poets' and critics' views of the characters from medieval to modern times. The opening essay, "The Presentation of The Character of Lancelot: Chretien to Malory", is absolutely brilliant, and well-worth the trouble of finding the book at a library. Many of the other essays, unfortunately, require specialist knowledge of particular tales from medieval romance to find meaningful. The obligatory modern emphases in scholarship, including film adaptation and feminist criticism, are included.

Review # 2 was written on 2014-11-10 00:00:00 Andrea Helmandollar "Everyone knows" the story of Jews in the Middle Ages: moneylending, pogroms, blood libel, exile. Einbinder's study of Jewish martyr chronicles and songs challenges the conception you didn't know you had that medieval Jews were defined solely by persecution. She draws out an amazing amount of details about everyday life, how Jews coped practically and theologically with Christian oppression--and, not incidentally, allows Jewish literature itself to stand as proof of just how vibrant these communities really were.