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The motif of death and dying traced through over a thousand years
of the English Arthurian tradition. It is arguably the tragic end
to Arthur's kingdom which gives the myth its exceptional resonance
and power. The essays in this volume explore the presentation of
death and dying in Arthurian literature and film produced in
Englandand America from the middle ages to the modern day. Authors,
texts and topics covered include Geoffrey of Monmouth, the
chronicle tradition, and the alliterative Morte Arthure; Gawain and
the Green Knight, Ywain and Gawain, the stanzaic Morte Arthur, and
Malory's Morte Darthur; Tennyson's Idylls, Pyle's retelling of the
myth for American children, David Jones, T.H. White, Donald
Barthelme, Rosalind Miles and Parke Godwin. Featured films include
Knight Rider, Excalibur, First Knight, and King Arthur.
CONTRIBUTORS: Sian Echard, Edward Donald Kennedy, Karen Cherewatuk,
Michael W. Twomey, K. S. Whetter, Thomas Crofts, MichaelWenthe,
Lisa Robeson, Cory James Rushton, Janina P. Traxler, James Noble,
Julie Nelson Couch, Samantha Rayner, Kevin J. Harty
Essays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most
important and significant extant late medieval manuscript
collections. The Yorkshire landowner Robert Thornton (c.1397-
c.1465) copied the contents of two important manuscripts, Lincoln
Cathedral, MS 91 (the "Lincoln manuscript"), and London, British
Library, MS Additional 31042 (the "London manuscript") in the
middle decades of the fifteenth century. Viewed in combination, his
books comprise a rare repository of varied English and Latin
literary, religious and medical texts that survived the dissolution
of the monasteries, when so many other medieval books were
destroyed. Residing in the texts he copied and used are many
indicators of what this gentleman scribe of the North Riding read,
how he practised his religion, and what worldly values he held for
himself and his family. Because of the extraordinary nature of his
collected texts - Middle English romances, alliterative verse (the
alliterative Morte Arthure only exists here), lyrics and treatises
of religion ormedicine - editors and scholars have long been deeply
interested in uncovering Thornton's habits as a private, amateur
scribe. The essays collected here provide, for the first time, a
sustained, focussed light on Thornton and hisbooks. They examine
such matters as what Thornton as a scribe made, how he did it, and
why he did it, placing him in a wider context and looking at the
contents of the manuscripts. Susanna Fein is Professor of Englishat
Kent State University; Michael Johnston is an Assistant Professor
of English at Purdue University. Contributors: Julie Nelson Couch,
Susanna Fein, Rosalind Field, Joel Fredell, Ralph Hanna, Michael
Johnston, George R. Keiser, Julie Orlemanski, Mary Michele
Poellinger, Dav Smith, Thorlac Turville-Petre.
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