Malory's contemporary audience : the social reading of romance in late medieval England / Thomas H. Crofts.
New readings of the Morte Darthur place both book and author within the historical and cultural context of fifteenth-century England.
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge :
D.S. Brewer,
[2006]
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| Series: | Arthurian studies ;
v. 66. |
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Table of Contents:
- 1. The text at hand
- 2. Caxton's preface : Historia and Argumentum
- 3. Malory's moral scribes : 'Balyn' in the Winchester manuscript
- 4. Usurpation, right and redress in Malory's Roman war
- 5. No hint of the future
- Epilogue : two gestures of closure.