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Malory: Texts and Sources
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.
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.
326 pages, Hardcover
First published December 17, 1998
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June 6, 2013
Peter Field's name is well known to readers of Thomas Malory and is one of the leading scholars in the field. Known for his own study of Malory's style in Romance and Chronicle and his biographical work on Malory, published in The Life and times of Malory. Anyone approaching medieval studies at an academic level will know Field's 1990 revision of Eugene Vinaver's three volume edition of Malory's works.
This volume of Brewer's Arthurian Studies collects most of Field's scholarly papers that he's published on Malory over the years. The collection contains twenty three papers in all. Contents include: The Earliest Texts of Malorys Morte Darthur, The Choice of Texts for Malorys Morte Darthur, Malorys Minor Sources, French Words and Phrases in Sir Thomas Malorys Le Morte Darthur, Fifteenth Century History in Malorys Morte Darthur, The Case of Harleuse, Malorys Mordred and the Morte Arthure, Hunting Hawking and Textual Criticism in Malorys Morte, Westminster Bridge and Virvyn, Malory and Morte Arthure, Malory and the French Prose Lancelot, Malory and Perlesvaus, Malory and Chretien de Troyes, The Source of Malorys Tale of Gareth, The French Prose Tristan, Malorys Trapdoor and the Name Estorause, The Amsterdam University Fragment of the Old French Prose, Caxtons Roman War, The Empire of Lucius Iberius, Malorys Morte Arthure and the King of Wales, Roone and the Low Country, Malory and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell.
An inexpensive way of getting hold of some important studies of Malory by a scholar who is now considered one of the world foremost experts on the subject.
This volume of Brewer's Arthurian Studies collects most of Field's scholarly papers that he's published on Malory over the years. The collection contains twenty three papers in all. Contents include: The Earliest Texts of Malorys Morte Darthur, The Choice of Texts for Malorys Morte Darthur, Malorys Minor Sources, French Words and Phrases in Sir Thomas Malorys Le Morte Darthur, Fifteenth Century History in Malorys Morte Darthur, The Case of Harleuse, Malorys Mordred and the Morte Arthure, Hunting Hawking and Textual Criticism in Malorys Morte, Westminster Bridge and Virvyn, Malory and Morte Arthure, Malory and the French Prose Lancelot, Malory and Perlesvaus, Malory and Chretien de Troyes, The Source of Malorys Tale of Gareth, The French Prose Tristan, Malorys Trapdoor and the Name Estorause, The Amsterdam University Fragment of the Old French Prose, Caxtons Roman War, The Empire of Lucius Iberius, Malorys Morte Arthure and the King of Wales, Roone and the Low Country, Malory and The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnell.
An inexpensive way of getting hold of some important studies of Malory by a scholar who is now considered one of the world foremost experts on the subject.
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