Before Malory
Subtitle: reading Arthur in later medieval England
By: Richard J. Moll.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Toronto; Buffalo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 368
Subjects: Arthur, King; Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent. -- Sources; Malory, Thomas, Sir, 15th cent. -- Knowledge -- History; Arthur, King -- In literature; English literature -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- History and criticism; Historiography -- Great Britain -- History -- To 1500; Britons -- Kings and rulers -- Romances -- Sources; Arthurian romances -- Sources; Romances, English -- Sources; Britons -- Historiography; Britons -- Sources; Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 -- Historiography; Great Britain -- History -- To 1066 -- Sources; England -- Intellectual life -- 1066-1485
Description: "Although most modern scholars doubt the historicity of King Arthur, parts of the legend were accepted as fact throughout the Middle Ages. Medieval accounts of the historical Arthur, however, present a very different king from the romances that are widely studied today. Richard Moll examines a wide variety of historical texts to explore the relationship between the Arthurian chronicles and the romances. He demonstrates how competing and conflicting traditions interacted with one another, and how writers and readers of Arthurian texts negotiated a complex textual tradition."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.