Title: Before Malory
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.
Subjects: Arthurian romances, Britons, English Romances, English literature, Historiography, History, History and criticism, In literature, Intellectual life, Kings and rulers, Knowledge, Romances, Sources, Arthur, king, Great britain, history, sources, Cycle d'Arthur, Histoire, Arthurromans
Places: England, Great Britain
People: Arthur King, Thomas Malory Sir (15th cent)
Time periods: 1066-1485, Middle English, 1100-1500, To 1066, To 1500