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This collection of original essays by an international group of distinguished medievalists provides a comprehensive introduction to the Morte Darthur, the great work of Sir Thomas Malory, which will be indispensable for both students and scholars. As well as essays on the eight tales which make up the Morte Darthur, these are studies of the relationship between the Winchester manuscript and Caxton's and later editions; the political and social context in which Malory wrote; his style and sources; and his treatment of two key concepts in Arthurian literature, chivalry and the representation of women. The volume also includes a brief biography of Malory with a list of the historical records relating to him and his family. It ends with a discussion of the reception of the Morte Darthur from the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries, and a select bibliography.
List of contents
- A S G Edwards
`Meter, Stanza, Vocabulary, Dialect'. - Hoyt N Duggan
`Text and Society: The Historical Background'. -
`Text and Society. Christianity for Courtly Subjects: Reflections on the Gawain-Poet'. -
`Everyday Life: Landscape and Geography'. - Ralph W V Elliott
`Everyday Life: Feasts'. - Derek S Brewer
`Everyday Life. Jewels: Luxury, Piety and Preciousness in Pearl'. - Linda Brosnan
`Everyday Life: The Hunts in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. - Anne Rooney
`Everyday Life: Castles'. - M W Thompson
`Everyday Life: Armour in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight'. -
`Literary Sources: Romances and Other Secular Sources (Sir Gawain)'. - Elisabeth Brewer
`Literary Sources: Scriptural and Devotional Sources of the Gawain-Poet (Other poems)'. - Richard G. Newhauser
`Courtesy and Chivalry in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight: The Order of Shame and the Invention of Embarrassment'. -
`Gender and Sexual Transgression in the Gawain-Poet'. - Jane Gilbert ***
`The Gawain-Poet as a Vernacular Theologian'. - Nicholas Watson
`The Supernatural'. - Helen Cooper
`Narrative Structures'. - Nick Davis
`Allegory and Symbolism'. - Priscilla Martin
`Poetic Identity in the Gawain-Poet'. - A C Spearing ***
`Sir Gawain: Some Later Versions. The Grene Knight'. -
`Sir Gawain: Some Later Versions. Sir Gawain at the fin de siècle: Novel and Opera'. - Barry A Windeatt
`Sir Gawain: Some Later Versions. Sir Gawain in Films'. - David Williams - Malcolm Andrew - Michael Lacy
The Supernatural - Helen Cooper
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Derek Brewer, Jonathan Gibson
