03732nam 2200649 450 991045643510332120200520144314.01-282-02323-397866120232311-4426-7122-X10.3138/9781442671225(CKB)2420000000003843(OCoLC)666910795(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218677(SSID)ssj0000289759(PQKBManifestationID)11222057(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289759(PQKBWorkID)10401894(PQKB)10818812(CaBNvSL)thg00600370 (MiAaPQ)EBC3254773(MiAaPQ)EBC4671219(DE-B1597)464207(OCoLC)1013942779(OCoLC)944178433(DE-B1597)9781442671225(Au-PeEL)EBL4671219(CaPaEBR)ebr11256937(EXLCZ)99242000000000384320160922h20032003 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrBefore Malory reading Arthur in later medieval England /Richard J. MollToronto, [Ontario] ;Buffalo, [New York] ;London, [England] :University of Toronto Press,2003.©20031 online resource (379 p.)Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph0-8020-3722-4 Includes bibliographical references and index.Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface and Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Facts and Fictions -- 1. The Years of Romance -- 2. The Scalacronica of Sir Thomas Gray of Heton -- 3. Defending Arthur -- 4. History curiously dytit -- 5. Adventures in History -- 6. Making History: John Hardyng's Metrical Chronicle -- 7. Fifteenth-Century Scribes -- Conclusion: Reading about Arthur -- Notes -- Bibliography -- IndexAlthough most modern scholars doubt the historicity of King Arthur, parts of the legend were accepted as fact throughout the Middle Ages. Medieval accounts of the historical Arthur, however, present a very different king from the romances that are widely studied today. Richard Moll examines a wide variety of historical texts including Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and John Hardyng's Chronicle to explore the relationship between the Arthurian chronicles and the romances. He demonstrates how competing and conflicting traditions interacted with one another, and how writers and readers of Arthurian texts negotiated a complex textual tradition. Moll asserts that the enormous variety and number of existing chronicles demonstrates the immense popularity of the historical Arthur in medieval England. Since these chronicles were the dominant source of Arthurian information for the late medieval reader, they provide an invaluable, and neglected, interpretive context for modern readers of Malory and other later medieval romances. The first monograph to look at the impact of these historical texts on Arthurian literature, Before Malory is also the first to show how canonical vernacular romances interacted with chronicle texts that have since dropped out of the canon.English literatureMiddle English, 1100-1500History and criticismGreat BritainHistoryTo 1066HistoriographyElectronic books.English literatureHistory and criticism.820.9/351Moll Richard J(Richard James),1966-1043863MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910456435103321Before Malory2469132UNINA