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While scholars such as Helen Cooper address the form of English romance over time to reveal the separation of the audience from the familiarity of its motifs, the specific ways in which the trans-temporal matter of romances engage with their historical moments also often become obscured. My study attempts more precisely to historicize each contribution to the tradition that I address within this time frame (ca. 1136-1670) in order to demonstrate the continued and particular uses of Arthurian matter to contemporary political discourses. In Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannice (ca.l 136), Arthur functions as a centralizing figure in reaction to questions of succession after the death of Henry I in 1135, resulting in the extended conflict between Stephen and Matilda (1135-1154). Likewise in Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur (ca. 1460s and 1485), Arthur functions as a unifying ideal, suggesting the importance of domestic political stability in reaction to the turmoil caused by the Wars of the Roses in the early 1460s and 1470s between Henry VI (r. 1422-1461 and 1470-1471) and Edward IV (r. 1461-1483). In Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (ca. 1375-1400), composed during the r

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Author

Emilee' S. Le Clear

Publisher

Middle Tennessee State University

Published

2011

Language

EN

Category

nonfiction