Description
Book SynopsisComplete Malory articles by leading Malory scholar on issues relating to the text and sources of the Morte Darthur.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. FIELD is Professor of English Emeritus at the University of Wales, Bangor.
Trade ReviewField 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 *
