Morien, The Black Knight (part 1) Historical Context (then and now)

This is the first of two lectures to accompany a reading of the narrative of Sir Morien from the 1320 Dutch Lancelot Compilation. Contents:
0:00 Introduction
3:33 "race lifts" & "politically correct history"
8:58 Who counts as "typical"?
13:51 Why representation matters (WYSIATI v. defamiliarization)
20:27 Black Europeans in medieval art, literature, & archaeology
26:55 representing North Africans v. Sub-Saharan Africans
31:07 desire for representation
32:20 Welsh origins & politics of Arthurian lit
35:34 French Bretons take over, make it more French
37:51 Cistercian monks insert new religiosity
41:02 Winchester Round Table
43:36 Arthurian literature has always been "politically correct history"
45:26 historical context of Morien
46:49 traveling the medieval world
49:58 Sub-Saharan cultures & empires
55:55 intercultural exchanges between Europe & Africa
1:00:26 a Muslim knight of the Round Table
1:01:50 Wolfram von Eschenbach's multicultural Parzival
1:08:59 Belcane, "Black" queen of Zazamanc
1:12:19 Sir Feirefiz, the first "Black" knight
1:16:34 commonalities between Feirefiz & Parzival
1:21:24 wealthy strangers
1:23:56 Feirefiz's quest for his father
1:25:19 from Feirefiz to Morien
1:29:22 omitted from the canon

A prose translation of the Morien section by early 20th Century Arthurian scholar Jesse Weston is available in the public domain at the two sites below:
https://d.lib.rochester.edu/camelot/text/weston-morien
https://archive.org/details/morienmetricalro00westrich
A new translation is currently underway by David F. Johnson and Geert Claassens, but it will probably not be available until late in 2021.
The other lectures I refer to are here:
King Arthur (Part 1 of 3) Cultural Context https://youtu.be/c5WHPYnxqwk
King Arthur (Part 2 of 3): Literary Origins https://youtu.be/OvjbqWaym1A
King Arthur (Part 3 of 3): The History behind the Legend (?) https://youtu.be/vHGF6uUoItU

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