Companion to Malory

ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. A. S. G. Edwards is Honorary Professor of Medieval Manuscripts at the University of Kent at Canterbury. ELIZABETH ARCHIBALD is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society. Elizabeth Edwards is a Professor at the University of King's College, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada Jeremy Smith was professor of English philology at Glasgow, where he remains a senior research fellow and emeritus professor, and an honorary professor at St Andrews. His specialisms include English historical linguistics, medieval studies, and book history, combined recently in Transforming Early English (2020). RICHARD BARBER has had a huge influence on the study of medieval history and literature, as both a writer and a publisher. His first book on the Arthurian legend appeared in 1961, and his major works include The Knight and Chivalry (winner of the Somerset Maugham Award in 1971), Edward Prince of Wales and Aquitaine, The Penguin Guide to Medieval Europe and The Holy Grail: the History of a Legend which was widely praised and was translated into six languages.

• Introduction - Elizabeth Archibald and A S G Edwards'The Hoole Book': Editing and the Creation of Meaning in Malory's Text - Carol. M MealeChivalry and the Morte Darthur - Richard BarberThe Place of Women in the Morte Darthur - Elizabeth EdwardsContextualising Le Morte Darthur: Empire and Civil War - Felicity RiddyMalory and His Sources - Terence McCarthyLanguage and Style in Malory - Jeremy J SmithThe Malory Life-Records - P J C FieldBeginnings: The Tale of King Arthur and King Arthur and the Emperor Lucius - Elizabeth ArchibaldThe Tale of Sir Gareth and The Tale of Sir Lancelot - Barbara NolanThe Book of Sir Tristram de Lyones - Helen CooperMalory and the Grail Legend - Jill MannThe Ending of the Morte Darthur - C. David BensonThe Reception of Malory's Morte Darthur - A S G EdwardsA Selective Bibliography of Malory Studies - Elizabeth Archibald and A S G Edwards