Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois: Intertextuality and Interpretation

Reappraisal of Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois , showing how it confronts and takes issue with - rather than simply imitating - earlier German Arthurian romance. Arthurian romance flourished in medieval Germany, but the pre-eminence of Wolfram von Eschenbach has perhaps overshadowed some of his successors. This book focuses on Wirnt von Gravenberg's Wigalois , the later thirteenth-century Arthurian romance. It argues that whereas authors such as Der Stricker and Der Pleier follow the example of