Table of Contents

Introduction - Elizabeth Archibald and A S G Edwards
'The Hoole Book': Editing and the Creation of Meaning in Malory's Text - Carol. M Meale
Chivalry and the Morte Darthur - Richard Barber
The Place of Women in the Morte Darthur - Elizabeth Edwards
Contextualising Le Morte Darthur: Empire and Civil War - Felicity Riddy
Malory and His Sources - Terence McCarthy
Language and Style in Malory - Jeremy J Smith
The Malory Life-Records - P J C Field
Beginnings: The Tale of King Arthur and King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius - Elizabeth Archibald
The Tale of Sir Gareth and The Tale of Sir Lancelot - Barbara Nolan
The Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones - Helen Cooper
Malory and the Grail Legend - Jill Mann
The Ending of the Morte Darthur - C. David Benson
The Reception of Malory's Morte Darthur - A S G Edwards
A Selective Bibliography of Malory Studies - Elizabeth Archibald and A S G Edwards

About the Author

ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. Elizabeth Edwards is a Professor at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020). RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.