Malory: Texts and Sources

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During the last thirty years, the study of Malory's text and sources has given rise to hotly contested issues and spectacular discoveries, as well as fundamental questions about the nature of his Morte Darthurand how we should read it. The debate has given rise to hotly contested issues and spectacular discoveries, even requiring forensic examination of the unique manuscript of Malory's great book; it has also thrown fresh light on Malory's art, politics, revisions, tastes, reading, knowledge of Europe, and sense of history. Professor Peter Field is a leading authority on these questions, and the essays collected here, revised and updated for this edition, are of great importance for an understanding of Malory. A new study considers the relative authoirty of the Winchester and Caxton texts. P.J.C. FIELDis Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor.

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Field is better acquainted than anyone else in Britain, perhaps in the world, with the minutiae of the issues which which current Malory scholarship concerns itself... a valuable guide. MEDIUM AEVUM This very substantial collection of essays makes an extremely valuable contribution to our uinderstanding of one of the greatest authors of the later middle ages. YEAR'S WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES Extremely useful and important volume. MLR Reveals the breadth and depth of one of the sharpest minds currently at work on Malory. ANGLIA

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ISBN-13: 9780859915366
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer, Limited
Publication date: 12/17/1998
Series: Arthurian Studies , #40
Pages: 326
Product dimensions: 0.75 (w) x 9.21 (h) x 6.14 (d)

	Preface
	Abbreviations
1	The Earliest Texts of Malory's Morte Darthur	1
2	The Choice of Texts for Malory's Morte Darthur	14
3	Malory's Minor Sources	27
4	French Words and Phrases in Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur	32
5	Fifteenth-Century History in Malory's Morte Darthur	47
6	Author, Scribe and Reader in Malory: The Case of Harleuse and Peryne	72
7	Malory's Mordred and the Morte Arthure	89
8	Hunting, Hawking and Textual Criticism in Malory's Morte Darthur	103
9	The Amsterdam University Fragment of the Old French Prose Merlin	114
10	Caxton's Roman War	126
11	The Empire of Lucius Iberius	162
12	Malory's Morte Arthure and the King of Wales	187
13	Malory's Place-Names: Roone and the Low Country	189
14	Malory's Place-Names: Westminster Bridge and Virvyn	191
15	'Above Rubies': Malory and Morte Arthure 2559-61	196
16	Malory and the French Prose Lancelot	199
17	Malory and Perlesvaus	224
18	Malory and Chretien de Troyes	236
19	The Source of Malory's 'Tale of Gareth'	246
20	The French Prose Tristan: A note on some manuscripts, a list of printed texts, and two correlations with Malory's Morte Darthur	261
21	Malory's Trapdoor and the Name Estorause	276
22	Time and Elaine of Ascolat	280
23	Malory and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell	284
	Bibliography	295
	Index	309

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