Sir Gawain And the Green Knight And the Order of the Garter
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: April 30, 2006
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780268031763
Subjects: Poetry & poets: classical, early & medieval; Medieval; Knights and knighthood in literature; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; English; Romances; History and criticism; Arthurian romances; Gawain (Legendary character)
First sentence: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae provides the economical basis for the view presented in the Introduction that, in its modification of the Round Table originally projected by Edward III, the Order of the Garter materializes two discourses, those of British insular historiography and of Arthurian romance.