Introduction ALAN LUPACK and BARBARA TEPA LUPACK On October 26-28, 2000, there was a great gathering of Arthurian scholars from England, Canada, and the United States at the University of Rochester for Camelot 2000: A Millennial Conference on the Arthurian Legends. The essays in this special issue, one of two publications to result from the many fine presentations at the conference, grew from papers that focused on specific works or specific problems. (The keynote addresses and those papers that offered overviews ofa particular area ofArthurian Studies or that projected future trends in the field are being published separately in a volume by Boydell and Brewer.) One of the purposes of the conference was to demonstrate the wide variety ofapproaches used by scholars studying Arthurian material and indeed the wide variety ofmaterial available for study. Arthurian Studies is a fascinating field in part because it is multidisciplinary and it crosses linguistic, geographic, and temporal barriers. The very fact that the conference was generously sponsored by a broad array of departments and divisions of the University of Rochester—by the Rossell Hope Robbins Library, the Rush Rhees Library, the College of Arts and Sciences, the Department ofEnglish, the Department ofArt and Art History, the Depattment ofFilm Studies, the Department ofHistory, the Department ofModern Languages and Cultures, the Department ofReligion and Classics, the Cluster on Premodern Studies, the Visual and Cultural Studies Program, and Boydell and Brewer—suggests the range ofinterests that come together under the rubric ofArthurian Studies. The essays in this issue capture some ofthat variety. They study Middle English as well as medieval Dutch and German romance, explore Malory's most influential text both as a medieval work and as it has been received in the twentieth century, examine some of the ways that the legend has been reinterpreted in nineteenth-century poetry and twentieth-century fiction, and discuss a bibliographic project that chronicles the tremendous scope of Arthurian material and the tremendous number of Arthurian works that have been produced since the Middle Ages. Ultimately, all of these essays offer new insights, either into individual works or genres or into the field of Arthurian Studies itself. ARTHURIANA 11.4(2001) ARTHURIANA We are grateful to all of those who participated in the Camelot 2000 conference, either as presenters or chairs, and to all those who contributed support, financial or otherwise. In addition to the branches ofthe University of Rochester listed above, special thanks goes to Rosemary Paprocki ofthe Robbins Library for her tireless work in planning and implementing every aspect ofthe conference; to Corinne Arráez, Katherine Marsh, Joanna Grant, Anne Zanzucchi, Gina Tonagbanua, and John Sutton, graduate students who worked in the Robbins Library and who assisted with various conference details; to Mike Anderson, a graduate student in the Department ofEnglish who assisted with setup; to Russell Peck, Thomas Hahn, and Sarah Higley ofthe Department ofEnglish, and Richard Kaeuper of the Department of History, for their help with planning the conference and for their participation in it; to Vicki Burns, Kathy McGowan, and Darka Hawryshkiw of the Reference Department ofRush Rhees Library and to Jason Stradling of the Preservation Department forvolunteering their time to help with registration; to Andrea Reithmayr ofthe Preservation Department for providing special bindings for some ofour exhibition catalogues; to Mary Huth and Melissa Mead of the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections for their assistance with mounting the Camelot2000 exhibition; and to Dean William Scott Green for his generous support ofthe conference. UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER ...