Polydore Vergil as Arthurian Witness: On King Arthur and Count Hoyer the Red in the Mansfeldische chronica (1572) of Cyriakus Spangenberg

IF 0.2 3区 文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2024-04-06 DOI:10.1353/sip.2024.a923965
William C. McDonald
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Cyriakus Spangenberg (d. 1604), a prominent Protestant theologian, seeks to trace and celebrate the history of the comital House of Mansfeld in his dynastic chronicle, Mansfeldische chronica (Eisleben, 1572). There, he includes a brief biographical entry on King Arthur that links the Round Table to Hoyer the Red, imagined progenitor of the Counts of Mansfeld and Arthurian paladin (fl. ca. 550 AD). Spangenberg’s intertwined material on King Arthur and Count Hoyer, we have found, draws on the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Johannes Agricola, Wirnt von Grafenberg, and Polydore Vergil. Polydore is a surprising choice as an Arthurian arbiter and sympathetic voice, given his reputation for skepticism about Galfridian lore and the place of King Arthur in British history. Spangenberg’s willingness to promote Polydore’s witness reveals that, in this important early modern case of reception, contemporary and modern critical assessments fail to align.

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作为亚瑟见证人的波利多尔-维吉尔:论 Cyriakus Spangenberg 的《Mansfeldische chronica》(1572 年)中的亚瑟王和红人霍耶伯爵
摘要:Cyriakus Spangenberg(卒于 1604 年)是一位著名的新教神学家,他在其王朝编年史《Mansfeldische chronica》(Eisleben,1572 年)中试图追溯和颂扬曼斯菲尔德家族的历史。他在书中简要介绍了亚瑟王的生平,并将圆桌武士与红人霍耶联系起来,后者是曼斯菲尔德伯爵和亚瑟圣骑士的想象祖先(约公元 550 年)。我们发现,斯潘根伯格关于亚瑟王和霍耶伯爵的相互交织的材料借鉴了蒙茅斯的杰弗里、约翰内斯-阿格里科拉、维恩特-冯-格拉芬伯格和波利多尔-维吉尔的作品。鉴于波利多尔对加尔弗里德传说和亚瑟王在英国历史中的地位持怀疑态度,因此他被选为亚瑟王的仲裁者和同情者是一个出人意料的选择。斯潘根伯格愿意宣传波利多尔的见证,揭示了在这一重要的现代早期接受案例中,当代和现代批评家的评价并不一致。
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