Chivalry in Malory: A Look at the Inconsistencies of Lancelot, Gareth, and Tristram in Le Morte d’Arthur Beals, Natalie Honours Thesis, Liberty University Spring (2009) Abstract Chivalry and its counterpart, courtly love, are indispensible to Sir Thomas Malory’s fifteenth century work on Arthurian legend, Le Morte d’Arthur. The three great examples of chivalry in this […]
Chivalry in Malory: A Look at the Inconsistencies of Lancelot, Gareth, and Tristram in Le Morte d’Arthur
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Guenevere Burning
March 21, 2011 By
Guenevere Burning Kaufman, Amy S. Arthuriana 20.1 (2010) Abstract Metacritical endeavours in which scholars explore their own pleasure have coaxed medieval studies into a delightful and perpetual swoon as of late. But pleasure is tricky business for the feminist reader of medieval Arthurian literature, mostly because we are always told that we are not supposed to […]
Translating the Alliterative Morte Arthure into a Digital Medium: The Influence of Physical Context on Editorial Theory
March 15, 2011 By
Translating the Alliterative Morte Arthure into a Digital Medium: The Influence of Physical Context on Editorial Theory Carlson, John Ivor Arthuriana 20.2 (2010) Abstract This article examines the impact of a modern digital edition of the Alliterative Morte Arthure on editorial rationale, arguing that a change in physical context entails a deep change in the analytical […]
Genre as Context in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
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Genre as Context in the Alliterative Morte Arthure Whetter, K.S. Arthuriana 20.2 (2010) Abstract Genre remains an important context for teaching and understanding literature. The genre of the Alliterative Morte is epic-heroic. This genre is dominated by a focus on heroes and their concern with honor, glory and martial achievement. Such values and heroes have potentially […]
Friendly Fire: The Disastrous Politics of Friendship in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
March 15, 2011 By
Friendly Fire: The Disastrous Politics of Friendship in the Alliterative Morte Arthure Chism, Christine Arthuriana 20.2 (2010) Abstract This article counterposes the Alliterative Morte Arthure with the late fourteenth-century court of Richard II to explore the politics of royal friendship, patronage, and chivalric noriture, arguing that the poem responds to the contemporaneous politicization of the king’s […]
Conquest, Crusade and Pilgrimage: The Alliterative Morte Arthure in its Late Ricardian Crusading Context
March 9, 2011 By
Conquest, Crusade and Pilgrimage: The Alliterative Morte Arthure in its Late Ricardian Crusading Context Nievergelt, Marco Arthuriana 20.2 (2010) Abstract This article explores the poem’s problematic use of holy war rhetoric, arguing for an engagement with contemporary debates on the transformation, revival and decline of the crusading ideal within the framework of the Papal Schism […]
An Arthurian Omaggio to Michael Murrin and James Nohrnberg
March 2, 2011 By
An Arthurian Omaggio to Michael Murrin and James Nohrnberg Ross, Charles & Buckman, Ty Arthuriana 21.1 (2011) Abstract Michael Murrin and James Nohrnberg are two of the most prominent Arthurian scholars of the past half century. Although neither works directly on Malory as a specialist, they share an interest in literary history, the influence of […]
‘Arthurian Torsos’ and Professor Nohrnberg’s Unrepeatable Experiment
March 2, 2011 By
‘Arthurian Torsos’ and Professor Nohrnberg’s Unrepeatable Experiment Buckman, Ty Arthuriana 21.1 (2011) Abstract This essay identifies the ‘unrepeatable experiment’ that is at the core of James Nohrnberg’s critical work, especially The Analogy of The Faerie Queene, by following his reading of Arthur in the early part of the poem to the appearance of the Blatant […]
The Precognition of Crime: Treason in Medieval England and Terrorism in Twenty-first Century America
May 27, 2010 By
The Knight of the Two Swords in Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur (1485) tells a story of an invisible knight who without provocation kills other knights.
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