Malory's Contemporary Audience: The Social Reading of Romance in Late Medieval England (Arthurian Studies)

CONTENTS\n......Page 6
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS\n......Page 12
ABBREVIATIONS\n......Page 14
Introduction......Page 16
Introduction: A Note on a ‘Note on Editions’......Page 26
Canons of Probability......Page 29
The Malory Canon......Page 38
Introduction: Locating Fifteenth-Century Historiography......Page 46
Earlier Medieval Historia......Page 48
Caxton’s Preface......Page 55
Argumentum, Exemplarity and Ideology......Page 66
Conclusion......Page 74
Introduction: Exemplarity and Fifteenth-Century Literary Production......Page 76
Visual Features of the Winchester Manuscript......Page 77
Visual Effect and Cultural Authority......Page 82
The Emergence of Balyn......Page 86
The Adventure of Balyn......Page 93
Introduction: The History of the Roman War......Page 109
Fifteenth-Century Froissart: Textual History and Local Correspondence......Page 111
Local Memory: Bear and Boar in Arthur’s Dream......Page 112
Right and Redress in Froissart’s Chroniques: An Exemplum......Page 115
Arthur’s War Council: Chronicle and Re-legitimization......Page 119
Taking the Exemplum: Arthur Answers the Ambassadors......Page 125
The Conclusion of Malory’s Roman War......Page 129
Introduction: Memory and the Book......Page 136
Contingencies of Fifteenth-Century Prose......Page 138
May in Malory’s Prose Morte......Page 140
Return and/or Arrival......Page 152
The Last Fight......Page 159
The Myrmidons of Death......Page 163
Conclusion......Page 166
EPILOGUE: \nTwo Gestures of Closure......Page 167
BIBLIOGRAPHY\n......Page 174
INDEX\n......Page 184