While compiling his 1947 edition of the work, Eugène Vinaver, using the Winchester Manuscript, concluded that the work was actually intended to consist of eight independent parts, citing specifically the section on Balin* as his primary example.
While compiling his 1947 edition of the work, Eugène Vinaver, using the Winchester Manuscript, concluded that the work was actually intended to consist of eight independent parts, citing specifically the section on Balin* as his primary example. William Caxton takes credit for dividing the work into its current 21 books and 507 chapters, for ease of reading, in the preface to his 1485 edition. FTP, what is this famous work by Thomas Malory, most likely begun while the author was in prison in the 1450s, a compilation and adaptation of a number of English and French Arthurian romances?
While compiling his 1947 edition of the work, Eugène Vinaver, using the Winchester Manuscript, concluded that the work was actually intended to consist of eight independent parts, citing specifically the section on Balin* as his primary example.
{Le Morte d’Arthur}