Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter
Francis Ingledew's book makes the case that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III's foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter. As well as providing the basis for a thorough reinterpretation of the poem's purposes and meanings, this argument dates to the mid-fourteenth-century reign of Edward III (1327–77) a poem conventionally ascribed to the reign of Richard II...
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\ From the Publisher“Francis Ingledew’s thesis in ‘Sir Gawain and the Green Knight’ and the Order of the Garter is not only that the Garter motto is authorial, but that SGGK itself is a cloaked rebuke of sexual wrongdoing in Edward’s court in the 1340s. . . . [A] provocative and important book; it cannot be ignored.” —Arthuriana\ \ \
