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P. J. C. Field.
Malory: Texts and Sources.
Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 1998.
Arthurian Studies XL.
ISBN 0859915360;
ISBN-13: 9780859915366.
Hardback, stitch bound; issued without dustjacket.
161x242x27mm.
x,313pp.
English.
Unused bargain.This item £27.50
[Publisher's price £55.00/$90.00]
751g.
During the last thirty years, the study of Malory's text and sources has given rise to fundamental questions about the nature of his Morte Darthur and 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 authority of the Winchester and Caxton texts.
Contents:
The earliest texts of Morte Darthur;
Choice of texts for Morte Darthur;
Malory's minor sources;
French words & phrases in Morte Darthur;
15th-c. history in Morte Darthur;
Author, scribe & reader in Malory - the case of Harleuse & Peryne;
Malory's Mordred & the Morte Arthure;
Hunting, hawking & textual criticism in Morte Darthur;
The Amsterdam University fragment of the OFr Prose Merlin;
Caxton's Roman war;
The empire of Lucius Iberius;
Malory's Morte Arthure & the king of Wales;
Malory's place-names - Roone & the Low Country;
Malory's place-names - Westminster Bridge & Virvyn;
Malory & Morte Arthure 2559-61;
Malory & the French Prose Lancelot;
Malory & Perlesvaus;
Malory & Chrétien de Troyes;
Source of Malory's "Tale of Gareth";
The French prose Tristan;
Malory's trapdoor & the name Estorause;
Time & Elaine of Ascolat;
Malory & The Wedding of Sir Gawain & Dame Ragnell.
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