The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds

The Arthur of the Iberians: The Arthurian Legends in the Spanish and Portuguese Worlds, ed. David Hook, Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages 8 (Aberystwyth: The University of Wales Press, 2015). xv + 531 pp. ISBN 978-1-78316-241-3. £95.00. This impressive contribution to scholarship builds on the pioneering work of William J. Entwistle and María Rosa Lida de Malkiel, with a series of finely crafted essays exploring a range of approaches to Arthurian materials in the major Peninsular Romance languages (Castilian, Catalan, Galician, and Portuguese), and following the spread of Arthurian materials overseas with the seaborne expansion of Spain and Portugal from Iberia into the Americas and Asia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. It pays particular attention...