The Knight Without the Sword: A Social Landscape of Malorian Chivalry
The chivalrous society portrayed in Malory's 'Morte Darthur' is apparently very different from the actual fifteenth-century world in which the author lived. While many critics of earlier generations considered Malory's romance a work of anachronistic escapism, some recent scholars propose that his romanticized world of chivalry and the hard-nosed gentry community described in contemporary letter collections represent two complementary but irreconcilable aspects of fifteenth-century...
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Behind the chivalrous facade of Malory's work Kim detects the anxieties and aspirations of the real fifteenth entury aristocracy.
