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Tristan and Isolde is a medieval romantic legend originating from Celtic mythology, centered on the tragic love story between the knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. The narrative explores themes of love, betrayal, and fate, influencing literature, music, and art throughout the centuries.
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Tristan and Isolde is a medieval romantic legend originating from Celtic mythology, centered on the tragic love story between the knight Tristan and the Irish princess Isolde. The narrative explores themes of love, betrayal, and fate, influencing literature, music, and art throughout the centuries.

Key research themes

1. How do Celtic antecedents and female archetypes shape the legend of Tristan and Isolde?

This research theme investigates the Celtic mythological and cultural roots of the Tristan and Isolde legend, focusing on how ancient Irish sagas and female archetypes inform the narrative structure, characters, and motifs in the medieval legend. It highlights the transformation of Celtic motifs such as the love triangle, sovereignty, and sovereignty drinks into the medieval romance context, revealing the enduring influence of Celtic cultural concepts of power, fidelity, love, and death in the legend.

Key finding: Identifies the legend's core motifs—love triangle between a king, his vassal, and a woman, as well as the presentation of a drink—as inherited from Celtic mythological sagas like the Fenian and Ulster cycles. It shows that... Read more
Key finding: Analyzes the possible Pictish and broader Celtic origins of the Tristan legend, emphasizing how the narrative’s polyandrous and matrilineal traditions differ from medieval Christian patrilineal norms. It evidences that... Read more

2. What role does courtly love ideology play in shaping the portrayal of Tristan and Isolde and its relation to medieval social transformation?

This theme explores the evolution of courtly love in medieval literature, particularly in its ideological function within the legend of Tristan and Isolde. It examines how courtly love served as a vehicle to reconcile changing mating systems—shifting from polygyny and kinship-based marriages to monogamous, consent-based pair bonds—while embedding proto-modern individualism and prosociality. The research investigates how Tristan and Isolde's tragic love story embodies tensions between heroic love traditions and emergent courtly ideals during societal transitions in medieval Europe.

Key finding: Reveals that courtly love as depicted in Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar was a deliberate ideological bridge facilitating Europe's transition from kinship-based heroic love to monogamous, consent-driven relationships foundational... Read more
Key finding: Shows Malory’s subversion of courtly love conventions through his portrayal of Tristan and Isolde, highlighting how Malory contrasts their adulterous relationship with the idealized courtly love of Lancelot and Guinevere.... Read more
Key finding: Analyzes how illness and incapacitation disrupt the idealized agency and masculine identity of knights in Tristan romances, including Béroul's and Thomas of Britain's Tristan. This research underlines the narrative function... Read more

3. How have medieval Tristan and Isolde narratives influenced early modern and modern literary and musical adaptations?

This theme focuses on the survival, transformation, and reinterpretation of the Tristan and Isolde legend through early modern literature and contemporary artistic expressions. It addresses how medieval source materials informed renaissance collections and how the legend’s motifs have been adopted and adapted in operatic works and modern cultural productions, reflecting changing aesthetic, philosophical, and feminist concerns over time.

Key finding: Demonstrates that Straparola’s early modern prose tales, including versions inspired by the Tristan and Isolde romance, preserved medieval narrative elements such as themes of secret adultery and courtroom trials, indicating... Read more
Key finding: Examines how the philosophical pessimism of Arthur Schopenhauer deeply informed Richard Wagner’s operatic interpretation of Tristan und Isolde, particularly themes of love, desire, and metaphysical death. The paper connects... Read more
Key finding: Reveals Friedrich Nietzsche’s analysis of Wagner’s Tristan und Isolde as employing covert ancient Greek rhythmic structures within the constraints of modern Western music notation, illustrating a compositional synthesis of... Read more

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Ce document a été généré automatiquement le 1 mai 2019. Cahiers de Narratologie-Analyse et théorie narratives est mis à disposition selon les termes de la licence Creative Commons Attribution-Pas d'Utilisation Commerciale-Pas de... more
If a narrative lacks the key ingredients of a compelling tale, yet still manages to cast influence over the evolution of Western literature, the question is no longer: is the Romance of Tristran valuable? Its value is vindicated by our... more
Film Melancholia (2011) eignet sich besonders gut für eine Detailanalyse, da er sich durch einen extensiven Gebrauch der Orchestereinleitung von Richard Wagners Tristan und Isolde auszeichnet. Dabei stellt er eine enge und wechselseitige... more
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The poet Thomas of Britain (Thomas de Bretagne), also known as Thomas d' Angleterre (Thomas of England), wrote his Old French poem Tristran(s) after AD 1155 (no later than 1175, some say by AD 1170). Mary Dominica Legge claims the poem... more
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A lo largo del siglo XIX y las primeras décadas del XX, se produjo un redescubrimiento de la leyenda de Tristán e Iseo que incluyó no solo el ámbito académico, con la elaboración de importantes ediciones que se convirtieron en punto de... more
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The objective of the current research is to introduce the narrative of the epic entitled The Romance of Tristan and Isolda, composed by Joseph Bédier, adapted to the dramatic format. The research involved a historical and bibliographic... more
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La historia de Tristán e Iseo, ese "bello cuento de amor y de muerte" como lo definió Joseph Bédier en su moderna recreación de la leyenda, fascinó al público medieval, que no dejó de buscar respuestas a los interrogantes que planteaba el... more
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Le Vin herbé (1941), by the Swiss composer Frank Martin (1890–1974) is an ‘Oratorio profano’ for 12 voices and chamber ensemble, which contrasts markedly with Wagner’s iconic musical treatment of the Tristan legend, Tristan und Isolde... more
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