Malory: Texts and Sources

P J C Field

ISBN 10: 0859915360 / ISBN 13: 9780859915366

Published by Boydell and Brewer Ltd, GB, 1998

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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.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Malory: Texts and Sources
• Publisher: Boydell and Brewer Ltd, GB
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0859915360
• ISBN 13: 9780859915366
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 1 gram

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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

P.J.C. FIELDis Professor of English at the University of Wales, Bangor.