LEADER 03732nam 2200649 450 001 9910456435103321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-02323-3 010 $a9786612023231 010 $a1-4426-7122-X 024 7 $a10.3138/9781442671225 035 $a(CKB)2420000000003843 035 $a(OCoLC)666910795 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10218677 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000289759 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11222057 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000289759 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10401894 035 $a(PQKB)10818812 035 $a(CaBNvSL)thg00600370 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3254773 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4671219 035 $a(DE-B1597)464207 035 $a(OCoLC)1013942779 035 $a(OCoLC)944178433 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781442671225 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4671219 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11256937 035 $a(EXLCZ)992420000000003843 100 $a20160922h20032003 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBefore Malory $ereading Arthur in later medieval England /$fRichard J. Moll 210 1$aToronto, [Ontario] ;$aBuffalo, [New York] ;$aLondon, [England] :$cUniversity of Toronto Press,$d2003. 210 4$dİ2003 215 $a1 online resource (379 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-8020-3722-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tPreface and Acknowledgments -- $tIntroduction: Facts and Fictions -- $t1. The Years of Romance -- $t2. The Scalacronica of Sir Thomas Gray of Heton -- $t3. Defending Arthur -- $t4. History curiously dytit -- $t5. Adventures in History -- $t6. Making History: John Hardyng's Metrical Chronicle -- $t7. Fifteenth-Century Scribes -- $tConclusion: Reading about Arthur -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aAlthough 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. 606 $aEnglish literature$yMiddle English, 1100-1500$xHistory and criticism 607 $aGreat Britain$xHistory$yTo 1066$xHistoriography 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aEnglish literature$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a820.9/351 700 $aMoll$b Richard J$g(Richard James),$f1966-$01043863 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910456435103321 996 $aBefore Malory$92469132 997 $aUNINA