The Malory Debate
The Malory Debate

Author: Bonnie Wheeler

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 464

ISBN-13: 9780859915830

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Seminal essays on one of the most crucial issues in Arthurian studies. For the past fifty years, debates about which text of Malory scholars and teachers should prefer have sparked much controversy: which is the most authentic or authoritative, Caxton, the Winchester version, or a mixture of both (asproposed by Vinaver)? The papers in this volume represent the most important contributions to the dialogue; previously published articles have been updated where relevant and new issues are presented in several original essays, while the introductions place the argument in its theoretical and historical contexts. Professor BONNIE WHEELER teaches at the Southern Methodist University; Professor MICHAEL SALDA teaches at the University of SouthernMississippi; Professor ROBERT KINDRICK teaches at the University of Montana. Contributors: MICHAEL N. SALDA, KEVIN GRIMM, SHUNICHI NOGUCHI, CHARLES MOORMAN, P.J.C. FIELD, WILLIAM MATTHEWS, ROBERT KINDRICK, HELEN COOPER, TOSHIYUKI TAKAMIYA, YUJI NAKAO, NORMAN BLAKE

Malory
Malory

Author: P. J. C. Field

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 330

ISBN-13: 9780859915366

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Complete 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.

The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory

Author: P. J. C. Field

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1999

Total Pages: 236

ISBN-13: 9780859915663

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This volume constitutes a search for the identity of Malory, author of the Morte Darthur. Field considers all arguments and gives an account of the life of the man identified, setting him in his historical context.

Caxton's Morte Darthur
Caxton's Morte Darthur

Author: Takako Kato

Publisher: The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 116

ISBN-13:

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Revisiting the fundamental texts of Sir Thomas Malory’s Morte Darthur, the Winchester manuscript and William Caxton’s printed edition, and investigating what happened in Caxton’s workshop are the best ways of discovering what Malory intended to write. This study investigates the irregular use of paraphs and the missing chapter-divisions in Caxton’s Morte, and reveals frequent alterations to it in order to fit his text on the page. It identifies the points at which alterations are most likely to have been made, and suggests that Caxton may have consulted the Winchester manuscript while he was preparing his edition, regularly with regard to textual divisions.

The Works of Sir Thomas Malory
The Works of Sir Thomas Malory

Author: Sir Thomas Malory

Publisher:

Published: 1990

Total Pages: 624

ISBN-13:

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This third edition of Vinaver's superbly annotated text of the Works provides a factually corrected version of the second edition, including reverified text and apparatus consisting of some 2,850 changes, and a completely revised index and glossary. In addition to the new changes, the volume offers the standard format of the previous two editions, including a definitive biography and literary interpretation of Malory, an essay describing the texts on which the edition was established, the Caxton printing, a lucid and highly readable introduction, full critical apparatus, and numerous relevant quotes from unpublished sources.

The Arthur of the English
The Arthur of the English

Author: W R J Barron

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2020-11-15

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 1786837404

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This first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language up until the end of the Middle Ages is now available for the first time in paperback. English people think of Arthur as their own – stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of princes even today. Yet some would say the English were the historical Arthur’s bitterest enemies and usurpers of his heritage. The process by which Arthurian legends have become an important part of England’s cultural heritage is traced in this book. Previous studies have concentrated on the handful of chivalric romances, which have given the impression that Arthur is a hero of romantic escapism. This study seeks to provide a more comprehensive and insightful look at the English Arthurian legends and how they evolved. It focuses primarily upon the literary aspects of Arthurian legend, but it also makes some important political and social observations.

Malory's Library
Malory's Library

Author: Ralph C. Norris

Publisher: DS Brewer

Published: 2008

Total Pages: 206

ISBN-13: 9781843841548

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New study of Malory's sources reveals much about how the work was created and about Malory himself.