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... I am currently eating a chocolate-covered digestive in honour of the prescient Sir Gabriel.

Chapter 22 "Plantations" interesting and super useful.

Chapters 19 (A World of Honour) and 20 (Political Thought and Intellectual History) were excellent.

Arthur as a Pelagian hero, "a kind of secular Saint".

Wow! "In Parenthesis" by David Jones sounds incredible!

Tennyson has Ettarre riding at the head of women warriors intending to joust with the Knights at Caerleon.

"beneath the secret of Lancelot and Guinevere lies another even more destructive one: that the power of the monarch is not divine but arbitrary and easily overthrown."

"Malory... explicates how the earthly hero's rise and eventual fall and tragedy are predicated upon the same abilities, virtue and character that secure his or her greatness."

"but - instinctive rather than inventive - the Walkers were quite simply befuddled by the Victorian age, so that by the time the old Queen died they were considered half wild..."

Wow. The Last Rites was amazing.

This is wonderful...

Ambrosius loved Percivale much beyond the rest (Tennyson).

Lancelot had initially 5 great virtues : virginity, humility, patience, rectitude, charity.

With the achievement of the Grail Quest the marvels of Logres have been brought to an end.

Failure and the Unattainable in Arthurian Romance

The Grail replaces terrestrial quest with celestial. Only 4 Knights embrace the new system. The rest reject it or fail to understand it. They cling doggedly to old codes of action - to chivalry of fin'amor - ignorant that these modes are not suited to the Grail quest. Most of them are unable to even find any adventures. They do not even discover the signifiers of the quest.