Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• RELLA KUSHELEVSKY
• ANNEGRET OEHME
• CAROLINE GRUENBAUM

Titel

MELEKH ARTUS AS A JEWISH ROMANCE: HORIZONS OF EXPECTATION AND GENRE CONFIGURATIONS

Ist Teil von

• Medieval and Early Modern Jewish Romance, 2023, p.107

Ort / Verlag

Arc Humanities Press

Erscheinungsjahr

2023

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• IN THE NEVER-COMPLETED romance Melekh Artus (“King Artus,” hereafter: MA) written in Hebrew and dated to 1279,¹ the anonymous translator begins with a preface to the text, a work that Steinschneider, the great nineteenth-century German-Jewish scholar and bibliographer, considered to be “the greatest curiosity of Hebrew Literature.”² The main story of MA consists of two illegitimate love affairs, both based on Arthurian sources: that of King Uther and Duchess Igerne, which results with Arthur’s birth, and that of Lancelot and Guinevere, which would bring about King Arthur’s death if the end of the romance existed.³ For Steinschneider, the preface of