The reform of the Arthurian romances in medieval german literature

2019 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 19K20796
• Project/Area Number (Other): 18H05587 (2018)
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Research Activity Start-up
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund (2019); Single-year Grants (2018)
• Review Section: 0102:Literature, linguistics, and related fields
• Research Institution: Rikkyo University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUBARA Aya (松原文) 立教大学, 文学部, 助教 (70827245)
• Project Period (FY): 2018-08-24 – 2020-03-31
• Keywords: ドイツ文学 / 中世文学 / アーサー王物語 / ガーヴァーン / 聖杯物語 / 宮廷文学

Outline of Final Research Achievements

Arthurian romances were brought into German literature through adaptation of the French culture in the early 13th century. The next generation works had, on the other hand, been written independently by utilizing the motifs from the earlier works and by recombining them. This study focused on "Parzival", one of the so-called 'classical' works, and "Diu Crone",the 'after-classical'work, and analyzed a virtue concept "triuwe" and the character formation especially in Gawan-figure. This study proved that "Parzival" was a turning point where the system of values and the standard of structures diverged, and an autonomous figure appeared.

Free Research Field

ドイツ中世文学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

騎士の美徳は中世ドイツの宮廷文学の主題であるが、その概念研究は、過度の一般化や、推測が先行する循環論法が反省された結果、近年は空白傾向が続いた。本研究は「誠実（triuwe）」という語の用例分析を出発点として、「古典」以降の作品において価値が宮廷世界から解放され多元化したことの一端を明らかにした。これは『パルチヴァール』以後に作品構造や人物造形における伝統からの脱却が見られることと軌を一にするもので、既存研究を新しい角度から補完した。