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The post-medieval articles see one paper devoted to the paratexts of sixteenth-century French Arthurian publishers; one to eighteenth-century Arthuriana; and one to a range of nineteenth-century rewritings of the virginity of Galahad and Percival's Sister. Two Notes close this volume: one on Geoffrey's Vita Merlini and a possible Irish source, and one on a likely source for Malory's linking of Trystram with the Book of Hunting and Hawking in an early form of The Book of St Albans.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":49750862496017,"sku":"NGR9781843846475","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52530770051345,"sku":"NLS9781843846475","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1843846470.jpg?v=1787392168"},{"product_id":"manuscript-and-meaning-of-malory-s-morte-darthur-book-k-s-whetter-9781843845638","title":"The Manuscript and Meaning of Malory's Morte Darthur","description":"The red-ink names that decorate the Winchester manuscript of Malory's Morte Darthur are striking; yet until now, no-one has asked why the rubrication exists. This book explores the uniqueness and thematic significance of the physical layout of the Morte in its manuscript context, arguing that the layout suggests, and the correlations between manuscript design and narrative theme confirm, that the striking arrangement is likely to have been the product of authorial design rather than something unusual dreamed up by patron, scribe, reader, or printer. The introduction offers a thorough account of not only the textual tradition of the Morte, but also the ways in which scholarship to date has not done enough with the manuscript contexts of Malory's Arthuriad. The book then goes on to establish the singularity and likely provenance of Winchester's rubrication of names. In the second half of the study the author elucidates the narrative significance of this rubrication pattern, outlining striking connections between manuscript layout and major narrative events, characters, and themes. He suggests that the manuscript mise-en-page underscores Malory's interest in human character and knighthood, creating a memorializing function similar to the many inscribed tombs that dominate the landscape of the Morte's narrative pages. Inshort, Winchester's design creates a memorializing tomb for Arthurian chivalry. K.S. 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There are also nuanced readingsof geography and politics in the Morte Darthur and its fifteenth-century contexts, and analyses of text and context in relation to the role of women, character and theme in the Morte, including the important questions of worshyp and mesure, as well as the issues of coherence and genre.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ INTERNAL","offer_id":52483512402193,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52483513418001,"sku":"NLS9781843840350","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781843840350.jpg?v=1789647959"},{"product_id":"arthurian-literature-xli-book-k-s-whetter-9781843848110","title":"Arthurian Literature XLI","description":"Arthurian Literature has established its position as the home for a great diversity of new research into Arthurian matters. It delivers fascinating material across genres, periods, and theoretical issues. \n\nThis volume covers a wide range of materials, whether judged by national or linguistic literary traditions, time period, or critical methodology. It begins with the winning Brewer Prize essay (for an early career scholar): in this case, an investigation of transgender possibilities in the Grisandole episode from the Old French Suite du Merlin. Subsequent essays examine what can be gleaned of the legend of Melwas from surviving medieval and early modern Welsh tradition; the vexed question of Chrétien de Troyes' attitude to marriage; and the ways in which the authors of the Middle English Sir Percyvell and Middle Dutch Moriaen adapt and complete Chrétien's Conte du Graal. The volume closes with two different studies of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte Darthur. The first presents an argument for a continuation of Lollard concerns into the fifteenth century, concerns that run throughout Malory's Arthuriad. The second re-opens the question of the provenance of William Caxton's copy-text for Malory's Morte, proposing that it was Anthony Wydeville, the brother-in-law of King Edward IV, who provided Caxton with his copy-text manuscript - as he designed the striking red-letter names visible today in the layout of the Winchester manuscript.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53679764799761,"sku":"NLS9781843848110","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":53689621479697,"sku":"NIN9781843848110","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9781843848110.jpg?v=1790176198"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/collections\/author-books-by-k-s-whetter.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}