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Guest Editors: Sarah Bowden, Susanne Friede and Andreas Hammer
This special issue focuses on space and place in Arthurian literature, from a wide range of European traditions. Topics addressed include the connections between quest space and individual spirituality in the Vulgate Queste and Malory's Morte Darthur; penitence in Hartmann's Iwein and Gregorius; parallels in sacred spaces in the Matter of Britain and medieval Ireland; political prophecy in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and The Awntyrs off Arthure A; syntagmatic and paradigmatic spaces in Chrétien's Perceval; spatial significance in Wigalois and Prosa Lancelot; the political meaning of the tomb of King Lot and the rebel kings in Malory's Morte Darthur; and sexual spaces in twelfth-century French romance.

Megan G. Leitch is is Reader in English Literature at Cardiff University, Wales.
K. S. Whetter is Professor of English at Acadia University, Nova Scotia.

Contributors: Martha Claire Baldon, Sarah Bowden, John Carey, Victoria Flood, Susanne Friede, Andreas Hammer, Cory James Rushton, Charlie Samuelson.