The Alliterative Morte Arthure - 9780859910750

The Alliterative Morte ArthureA Reassessment of the Poem\nAuthor(s): Karl Heinz Goller\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: D.S. Brewer\nISBN-13: 9780859910750, 978-0859910750\nSynopsis\nEssays examining a variety of aspects of important Arthurian poem.\n\nThe present volume grew from a nucleus of four papers given at the Twelfth International Arthurian Conference at Regensburg in 1971 on the alliterative Morte Arthure, increasingly recognised as one of the great masterpiecesof medieval English literature. These lectures sought to reappraise the poem and its somewhat enigmatic historical and cultural context, and are presented here in a much revised and expanded form. Unlike most volumes of theiskind, the contributions form an integrated whole, the result of lengthy discussions among the collaborating scholars over the past year. The topics range from the poem's place among chronicles and Arthurian romances to the date, audience and atti.