German Romance VII: Ulrich Fuetrer, Iban

The first ever English translation, with facing edition, of an important medieval German Arthurian romance, "Iban," is composed by Ulrich Fuetrer in the 1480s. It is the story of a young knight at King Arthur's court who pursues adventure abroad, wins a land and its lady as his wife, loses both through his immaturity and negligence, and eventually regains his country and his spouse in a series of adventures that teach him to place the welfare of others above his own desires.

Format: Hardback
Length: 204 pages
Publication date: 04 February 2022
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

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"Iban, the first ever English translation, with facing edition, of an important medieval German Arthurian romance, is the story of a young knight at King Arthur's court who pursues adventure abroad, wins a land and its lady as his wife, loses both through his immaturity and negligence, and eventually regains his country and his spouse in a series of adventures that teach him to place the welfare of others above his own desires. Composed in the 1480s by the Munich painter and writer Ulrich Fuetrer, Iban is one of fifteen narratives making up his massive Arthurian anthology, The Book of Adventures, which the author compiled for Duke Albrecht IV of Bavaria-Munich. Among the last premodern retellings of the story of the knight Ywain, Iban offers modern readers an invaluable window onto how the most beloved Arthurian tales were reinterpreted at the end of the Middle Ages and at the threshold to the early modern period. This book offers an edition of the romance, the first for nearly a quarter of a century, accompanied by a facing translation, the first into a modern language of any part of the Book of Adventures. It also includes an introduction, putting the romance into its wider contexts, and explanatory notes."

Weight: 424g
Dimension: 162 x 240 x 18 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781843846215