Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Field, P. J. C.

Title The life and times of Sir Thomas Malory / P. J. C. Field
Published Cambridge ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer, 1993

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 W'PONDS  820.21 M2577 Z/Fis  AVAILABLE
Description x, 218 pages ; 24 cm
Series Arthurian studies, 0261-9814 ; 29
Arthurian studies ; 29
Summary The first serious attempts to identify Malory were made in the 1890s, but the Malory who seemed most likely was found to have been accused of attempted murder, rape, extortion, sacrilegious robbery - and, although he seems never to have been brought to trial, to have spent ten years or more in prison. Could this be reconciled with the authorship of the most famous chivalric romance in English? Opinions differed; other possible authors, other Malorys, were proposed. It is only with this book, which gives the fullest consideration yet undertaken to the competing arguments (drawing on documents many of which were unknown in 1966 when the last book on Malory's life appeared) that the identity of Sir Thomas Malory is at last established beyond serious question
All the threads that make the stuff of the Arthurian legends - chivalry and betrayal, high romance and magic - come together with unequalled power in Malory's vibrant re-telling of the Arthurian stories. His Morte Darthur has been widely read for centuries, but the author's own life has been as variously reported as that of any Arthurian knight. Who was he? Peter Field's identification of the real Sir Thomas Malory is a fascinating detective story, drawing clues from a thorough exploration of contemporary records of military campaigns, local skirmishes, and political factions
Analysis English fiction
English fiction
Notes Includes index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century.
Malory, Thomas, Sir, active 15th century -- Contemporary England
Arthurian romances -- Authorship.
Authors, English -- Middle English, 1100-1500 -- Biography.
Knights and knighthood -- England -- Biography.
SUBJECT Great Britain -- History -- Lancaster and York, 1399-1485 http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056765 -- Biography. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh99001237
Genre/Form Biographies.
LC no. 93020187
ISBN 0859913856 (alk. paper)