Malory's Book of Arms: The Narrative of Combat in Le Morte Darthur
This study of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur centres on its main narrative interest and expressive medium, armed combat. In the analysis of the discourse of fighting, some repeated descriptive preoccupations —to do with name, vision, blood, emotion and gesture — are examined as 'needs of meaning' with relevance for the whole text, and related to political, religious, genealogical, sexual and medical views of Malory's period. Andrew Lynch's exploration of the powerof 'name' as public...
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An examination of the importance of knightly combat in Malory's Morte Darthur.
List of abbreviationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1'Suche a man I myghte be': Good name, identity and narrative12'Vertuous dedes' / 'Tedious havoc': The vision of combat283The thematics of combat564Good and ill will (1): The Book of Sir Tristram795Good and ill will (2): Tristram and the problem of Palamides1086'Lamentacyon as they had be stungyn wyth sperys': Emotion, gesture and gender134Select bibliography of works cited159Thematic index165Index of names166
