Knighthood In The Morte Darthur
'A lucid and rich analysis eminently suited to students at undergraduate and graduate levels.' CHOICEBeverley Kennedy puts Malory's concern with knighthood at the very heart of the Morte Darthur. She identifies three types of knight: the Heroic (Gawain), the Worshipful (Tristram and Arthur), and the True (Lancelot, Gareth and the Grail Knights), and argues that this knightly typology creates the thematic unity of the Morte Darthur. It also allows Malory to develop two quite different...
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New analysis of knighthood in the Morte Darthurbrings us closer to an understanding of Malory's text.
AcknowledgementsNote on Sources and DocumentationPreface to the Second Edition11The High Order of Knighthood13Late Medieval Views of Knighthood13The Office of Kingship20The Office of the King's Knights372A Typology of Knighthood56Gawain, Tor and Pellinor60Gawain, Marhalt and Ywain69The Literary Ancestry of Malory's Three Types823True Knighthood98Lancelot and Gawain: King Arthur's Warriors102Lancelot and Galahad: Potential Grail Knights111Lancelot and Gareth: The Courtly Option1274Worshipful Knighthood148Tristram and Arthur: The Courtier and the Prince150Lancelot and Palomides: Lovers and Knights-Errant177Lamorak and Gawain: Rivals for Worship200Who May See the Grail?: The Testing of Worshipful Knighthood2105Happy and Unhappy Knights214Balin's 'Unhappy Swerd' and the Heroic Code of Vengeance218Happynesse and Unhappynesse230'Lancelot Other Ellis Galahad': The Quest for Happynesse2446Standing with 'True Justyce'276Lancelot versus Mador de la Porte278Lancelot versus Mellyagaunt291Lancelot versus Gawain3047Malory's 'Hoole Book' and the Death of Arthur328Notes355Bibliography384Index395
