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Positive Emotions in Arthurian Romance: Introduction

Positive Emotions in Arthurian Romance: Introduction JIAS 2016; 4(1): 53­57 Andrew Lynch* DOI 10.1515/jias-2016-0004 The five short essays in this collection had their beginning in a thematic session on `Positive Arthurian Emotions' at the XXIVth Congress of the International Arthurian Society, held at the University of Bucharest, July 2014. In their more developed forms, some of the papers were subsequently submitted to JIAS. Thanks are due to the expert readers who assessed these contributions, and to the authors for their thorough rewriting and revision before publication. Together with the recent appearance of work originating at the Bristol IAS Congress in 2011,1 the research stemming from Bucharest shows the important input that scholars in Arthurian studies are making to a fast-growing international field ­ the history of emotions. It could be argued that Arthurianism has always been about emotions, both political and personal. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia and its successors like Wace's Roman de Brut and La3amon's Brut are deeply emotional works whose arc of history has Arthur as its keystone, and which actively involve readers in joy at the king's achievements followed by sorrow for his fall. Arthur models emotional behaviour for his followers through spectacular embodiments of feeling ­ anger in battle, pride http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of the International Arthurian Society de Gruyter

Positive Emotions in Arthurian Romance: Introduction

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JIAS 2016; 4(1): 53­57 Andrew Lynch* DOI 10.1515/jias-2016-0004 The five short essays in this collection had their beginning in a thematic session on `Positive Arthurian Emotions' at the XXIVth Congress of the International Arthurian Society, held at the University of Bucharest, July 2014. In their more developed forms, some of the papers were subsequently submitted to JIAS. Thanks are due to the expert readers who assessed these contributions, and to the authors for their thorough rewriting and revision before publication. Together with the recent appearance of work originating at the Bristol IAS Congress in 2011,1 the research stemming from Bucharest shows the important input that scholars in Arthurian studies are making to a fast-growing international field ­ the history of emotions. It could be argued that Arthurianism has always been about emotions, both political and personal. Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia and its successors like Wace's Roman de Brut and La3amon's Brut are deeply emotional works whose arc of history has Arthur as its keystone, and which actively involve readers in joy at the king's achievements followed by sorrow for his fall. Arthur models emotional behaviour for his followers through spectacular embodiments of feeling ­ anger in battle, pride

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Journal of the International Arthurian Society – de Gruyter

Published: Oct 1, 2016

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