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Author Crofts, Thomas, 1968- author

Title Malory's contemporary audience : the social reading of romance in late medieval England / Thomas H. Crofts
Published Cambridge : D.S. Brewer, [2006]
©2006

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Description 1 online resource (171 pages, 3 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
Series Arthurian studies ; volume 66
Arthurian studies ; v. 66.
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
Summary New readings of the Morte Darthur place both book and author within the historical and cultural context of fifteenth-century England
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-167) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century. Morte d'Arthur.
SUBJECT Morte d'Arthur (Malory, Thomas, Sir) fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- European -- English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Medieval.
Lezers.
Morte Darthur (Malory)
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781846154881
184615488X