The late-medieval adaptions and compilations of the Arthurian story are a European phenomenon that has sparked both mystification and controversy. Often dismissed as nostalgic recreations that attempt to halt the literary tide, these ambitious projects saw adaptors from across W…
Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieu : textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume …
Malory's Morte Darthur is now a canonical and widely-taught text. Recent decades have seen a transformation and expansion of critical approaches in scholarship, as well as significant advances in understanding its milieu : textual, literary, cultural and historical. This volume …
Ralph Norris collects the results of over 100 years of scholarship, providing new discussions of the major sources of the eight tales recognised in the standard edition of Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte d'Arthur'. He reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himse…
Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's 'Morte Darthur' have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabularies of suffering and genealogical concerns, as this book demonstrates. By …
