Sir Perceval of Gales

Titre:	Sir Perceval of Gales; Sir Perceval of Galles; Sir Percevale of Galles; Syr Perecyvelle of Gales; Sir Percyvell; Sir Percevell of Galles
Date:	Première moitié du XIV^e siècle
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	Vers
Contenu:	Récit des aventures de Perceval dont la source exacte est inconnue.
Incipit:	Here begynnes the Romance of Sir Percyvell of Galles. Lef, lythes to me two wordes or thre, of one that was faire and fre and felle in his fighte…
Explicit:	… Now Jhesu Criste, hevens Kyng, als He es Lorde of all thyng, grante us all His blyssyng! Amen, for charyté! Quod Robert Thornton Explicit Sir Percevell de Gales. Here endys the Romance of Sir Percevell of Gales, Cosyn to King Arthoure.

Manuscrits

Lincoln, Cathedral Library, 91 (A. I. 17), f. 161r-176r [⇛ Description]
« Thornton manuscript ».

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Thornton Romances. The Early English Metrical Romances of Perceval, Isumbras, Eglamour, and Degrevant. Selected from manuscripts at Lincoln and Cambridge. Edited by James Orchard Halliwell, Nichols and Son for the Camden Society, 1844, lvi + 312 p. [GB] [IA]
Syr Perecyvelle of Gales. Overseen by F. S. Ellis, after the edition edited by J. O. Halliwell from the Thornton MS. in the Library of Lincoln Cathedral, London, Morris, 1895.
Sir Perceval of Gales, herausgegeben von J. Campion und F. Holthausen. Mit einer Tafel, Heidelberg, Winter; New York, Stechert (Alt- und mittelenglische Texte, 5), 1913, xv + 144 p. [GB] [HT] [IA]
Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Russell and Russell, 1964, 2 t. (ici t. 2, p. 531-603) [IA: t. 1-2]
Édition antérieure:
- Middle English Metrical Romances, edited by Walter Hoyt French and Charles Brockway Hale, New York, Prentice-Hall, 1930, 2 t. [IA: t. 1-2]
The Thornton Manuscript (Lincoln Cathedral MS. 91), edited by Derek S. Brewer and A. E. B. Owen, London, The Scolar Press, 1977.
Ywain and Gawain; Sir Percyvell of Gales; The Anturs of Arther, edited with an introduction and commentary by Maldwyn Mills; consultant editor for this volume, Malcolm Andrew, London, Dent; Rutland, Tuttle (Everyman's Library), 1992, xxxviii + 210 p.
Sir Perceval of Galles and Ywain and Gawain, edited by Mary Flowers Braswell, Kalamazoo, Medieval Institute Publications (TEAMS Middle English Texts Series), 1995, vii + 212 p. [lib.rochester.edu]
Liste complète: Database of Middle English Romance

Traductions modernes

Études

Baron, F. Xavier, « Mother and son in Sir Perceval of Galles », Papers in English Language and Literature, 8, 1972, p. 3-14.
Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Brown, Arthur, « The Grail and the English Sir Perceval », Modern Philology, 16, 1918-1919, p. 553-568; 17, 1919-1920, p. 361-382; 18, 1920-1921, p. 201-228, 661-673; 22, 1924-1925, p. 79–98, 113-132.
Busby, Keith, « Sir Perceval of Galles, Le Conte du Graal, and La Continuation-Gauvain: the methods of an English adaptor », Études anglaises, 31:2, 1978, p. 198-202. [Cairn]
Busby, Keith, « Chrétien de Troyes English'd », Neophilologus, 71:4, 1987, p. 596-613. DOI: 10.1007/bf00636813
Eckhardt, Caroline D., « Arthurian comedy: the simpleton-hero in Sir Perceval of Galles », The Chaucer Review, 8, 1974, p. 204-220.
Finsterbusch, Franz, Der Versbau der mittelenglischen Dichtungen "Sir Perceval of Gales" und "Sir Degrevant", Wien et Leipzig, Braumüller (Wiener Beiträge zur englischen Philologie, 49), 1918, xi + 181 p. [HT] [IA]
Fowler, David C., « The Conte du Graal and Sir Perceval of Galles », Bulletin bibliographique de la Société internationale arthurienne = The Bibliographical Bulletin of the International Arthurian Society, 12, 1975, p. 5-20.
Fowler, David C., « Le Conte du Graal and Sir Perceval of Galles », Comparative Literature Studies, 12:1, 1975, p. 5-20. [jstor.org]
Golther, W., « Chrestiens Conte del graal in seinem Verhältniss zum wälschen Peredur und znm englischen Sir Perceval », Sitzungsberichte der königlichen bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften zu München, 1890, 2, p. 174-217. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Griffith, Reginald Harvey, Sir Perceval of Galles: A Study of the Sources of the Legend, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1911, 131 p. [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Compte rendu:
J. Douglas Bruce, dans The Romanic Review, 4, 1913, p. 125-130. [Gallica] [GB] [HT] [IA]
Guyénot, Laurent, La lance qui saigne. Métatextes et hypertextes du "Conte du Graal" de Chrétien de Troyes, Paris, Champion (Essais sur le Moyen Âge, 44), 2010, 343 p.
Compte rendu:
Matilda Tomaryn Bruckner, dans Zeitschrift für französische Sprache und Literatur, 122:1, 2012, p. 86-90. [jstor.org]
Mehl, Dieter, Die mittelenglischen Romanzen des 13. und 14. Jahrhunderts, Heidelberg, Winter (Anglistische Forschungen, 93), 1967, 229 p.
Traduction:
- Mehl, Dieter, The middle English Romances of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries, London, Routledge and Kegan Paul, 1968, 300 p.
Mühlhausen, Ludwig, « Untersuchung über das gegenseitige Verhältnis von Chrestiens Conte del Graal und dem kymrischen Prosaroman von Peredur », Zeitschrift für romanische Philologie, 44:4, 1924, p. 465-543. [Gallica] [GB] [HT] [IA] DOI: 10.1515/zrph.1924.44.4.465
Newstead, Helaine, « The besieged ladies in Arthurian romance », Publications of the Modern Language Association of America, 63:3, 1948, p. 803-830. DOI: 10.2307/459685
Paris, Gaston, « Romans en vers du cycle de la Table ronde », Histoire littéraire de la France, Paris, Imprimerie nationale, t. 30, 1888, p. 1-270. (ici p. 254-261) [GB] [IA]
Putter, Ad, « The text of Sir Perceval of Galles », Medium Ævum, 70:2, 2001, p. 191-203. DOI: 10.2307/43632674
Putter, Ad, « Story line and story shape in Sir Percyvell of Gales and Chrétien de Troyes's Conte du Graal », Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance, éd. Nicola McDonald, Manchester et New York, Manchester University Press, 2004, p. 171-196. [oapen.org]
Strucks, Carsten, Der junge Parzival in Wolframs von Eschenbach "Parzival", Crestiens von Troyes "conte del gral", im englishen "Syr Percyvelle" und italienischen "Carduino", Borna-Leipzig, Noske, 1910, [iii] + 77 p. [HT] [IA]
Veldhoen, N. G. H. E., « I haffe spedde better þan I wend: some notes on the Middle English Sir Perceval of Galles », Dutch Quarterly Review, 11, 1981, p. 279-286.

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