Malory and Christianity

Janet Jesmok retired from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2001, where she was Assistant Director of the Honors Program and taught Honors courses in medieval and Arthurian literature. D. Thomas Hanks Jr. is a Professor in the English department at Baylor University. His research interests include Medieval English literature, especially the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and of Sir Thomas Malory.

• Prefatory Note Introduction "All maner of good love comyth of God": Malory, God's Grace, and Noble Love by D. Thomas Hanks, Jr. Adulterated Love: The Tragedy of Malory's Lancelot and Guinevere by Corey Olsen Endless Virtue and Trinitarian Prayer in Lancelot's Healing of Urry by Sue Ellen Holbrook Christian Rituals in Malory: The Evidence of Funerals by Karen Cherewatuk Rhetoric, Ritual, and Religious Impulse in Malory's Book 8 by Janet Jesmok Christianity and Social Instability: Malory's Galahad, Palomides, and Lancelot by Dorsey Armstrong Slouching towards Bethlehem: Secularized Salvation in Le Morte Darthur by Fiona Tolhurst Malory's Secular Arthuriad by K. S. Whetter "In my harte I am [not] crystynde": What Can Malory Offer the Nonreligious Reader? by Felicia Nimue Ackerman Bibliography Contributors Index