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Bastert, Bernd and Ott, Michael R.: New Fakes: Art(h)urische Wahrheiten, in Bubert, Marcel and Doering, Pia Claudia (Eds.): Fake News im Mittelalter? Zur kulturellen Aushandlung von Falschheit in politischen, religiösen und literarischen Diskursen, Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing, 2026 (Das Mittelalter. Perspektiven mediävistischer Forschung. Beihefte, Volume 22), p. 189–206. https://doi.org/10.17885/heiup.1552.c24226

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Bernd Bastert , Michael R. Ott

New Fakes

Art(h)urische Wahrheiten

Abstract In this paper, we trace the trajectory of stories about Arthur / Artus from the Anglo-Norman world to the German-speaking world. However, our focus is not on the traditional question of what is true or false in these stories, nor are we concerned with the binary opposition between fictionality and factuality. Instead, we are interested in the productive use of narratives that can be considered “new fakes”, new forms of misrepresentation that, precisely be­cause of their nature, hold potential. We offer suggestions and propose ideas for addressing this phenomenon within literary and cultural studies.

Keywords King Arthur; Arthurian Romance; Matter of Britain; fictionality; Middle Ages