Although the anonymous pious Middle English romances and Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur have rarely been studied in relation to each other, they in fact share at least two thematic concerns, vocabu
This book sets Malory's Morte Darthur in the context of the political concerns that he shared with the fifteenth-century gentry readers for whom he wrote his book; the author draws widely on their cor
As Radulescu (medieval literature, Bangor U., UK) and Kennedy (English and comparative literature, U. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, US) observe in their introduction, genealogy was a central organ
Popular romance was one of the most wide-spread forms of literature in the middle ages, yet despite its cultural centrality, and its fundamental importance for later literary developments, the genre h
