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Front cover 1 Contents 8 Acknowledgements 10 Abbreviations 12 Preface 14 1 Fifteenth-Century Contexts for the Reading of Middle English Romances 16 Kings and rulers, suffering and penitence: shaping vocabularies of political debate 16 Middle English romances and their manuscript ‘homes’: corpus, challenges, choices 41 2 Spiritual Journeys through Political Realities: the ‘Pious’ Romances 55 Robert of Sicily: the king’s penitence 58 Sir Gowther: broken lineages 71 Sir Isumbras: women, male suffering and the lineage 81 3 Chronicling Britain’s Christian Conversion: Henry Lovelich’s History of the Holy Grail 102 Lovelich and the Arthurian legend 103 Chronicling God’s victories in the secular world 112 The king’s suffering 125 Women, suffering and the preservation of the lineage 136 4 The Politics of Salvation in Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur 164 Balin’s legacy 170 Lineages through swords 180 Lancelot, the suffering penitent 190 Lancelot’s healing of the fellowship 197 Lancelot’s final penitence 205 Afterword 213 Appendix 1 Plot Summaries 216 King Robert of Sicily 216 Sir Gowther 216 Sir Isumbras 217 Henry Lovelich, History of the Holy Grail 218 Appendix 2 Genealogies 224 Bibli

Author

Raluca L. Radulescu

Published

2013

Language

EN