Nieuwe online database voor Arthuriaanse fictie

The new research tool www.arthurianfiction.org provides information on medieval Arthurian narratives and the manuscripts in which they are transmitted throughout Europe. The ‘Arthurian Fiction’ database was compiled in the course of the NWO-project ‘Arthurian Fiction: A Pan-European Approach’ (2004-2008) under the supervision of Dr Bart Besamusca at Utrecht University. Watch the trailer. The database consists of linked records on over 200 texts, more than 1,000 manuscripts and 200 persons. ‘Arthurian Fiction’ is work in progress: a considerable number of records have yet to be completed, while fresh discoveries of narratives and manuscripts invite new entries. The compilers of the database hope that this tool will contribute to further research into Arthurian fiction as a pan-European phenomenon. The research, funded by the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), was carried out by Cora Dietl, Martine Meuwese, Jessica Quinlan and Sacha Voogd. In 2011-2012, the web research tool was developed by the Huygens Institute for the History of The Netherlands (Huygens ING) with the aid of funding from Common Language Resources and Technology Infrastructure (CLARIN).