This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician); it follows the spread of Arthurian material overseas with the seaborne expansion of Spain and Portugal from Iberia into America and Asia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and, as well as examining the specifically Arthurian texts themselves, it traces the continued influence of the medieval Arthurian material and its impact on the society, literature and culture of the Golden Age and beyond, including its presence in Don Quixote, the influential Spanish Arthurian-inspired romance Amadís de Gaula, and in Spanish ballads. Such was its influence that we find an indigenous American woman called 'Iseo' (Iseult); and an Arthurian story appeared in an indigenous language of the Philippines, Tagalog, as late as the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

David Hook is currently Research Fellow in the Faculty of Medieval and Modern Languages at the University of Oxford.

Introduction
I Arthurian Material in Iberia
Paloma Gracia
II The Surviving Peninsular Arthurian Witnesses: A Description and an Analysis
José Manuel Lucía Megías
III Arthurian Literature in Portugal
Santiago Gutiérrez García
IV The Matière de Bretagne in Galicia from the XIIth to the XVth Century
Pilar Lorenzo Gradín
V The Matière de Bretagne in the Corona de Aragón
Lourdes Soriano Robles
VI The Matter of Britain and Historical Reality
Carlos Alvar
VII The Post-Vulgate Cycle in the Iberian Peninsula
Paloma Gracia
VIII The Hispanic Versions of the Lancelot en prose: Lanzarote del Lago and Lançalot
Antonio Contreras
IX The Iberian Tristan Texts of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
María Luzdivina Cuesta Torre
X Amadís de Gaula
Rafael Ramos
XI Arthur Goes Global: Arthurian Material in Hispanic and Portuguese America and Asia
David Hook
XII The Contemporary Return of the Matter of Britain to Iberian Letters (XIXth to XXth Centuries)
Juan Miguel Zarandona