Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. Abbreviations ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. 1. Origins of a Medievalist 7
7. 2. The Nonliterary Background to Lawrence's Medievalism 12
8. 3. Lawrence and the Medieval Revival 34
9. 4. Lawrence's Early Medieval Reading 51
10. 5. The Impact of W. S. Blunt 73
11. 6. Chivalry and the Nomadic Code 93
12. 7. Lawrence's Literary Medievalism 104
13. 8. Seuen Pillars and Neomedieval Romance 125
14. 9. Lawrence and Ruskinian Medievalism 141
15. 10. Further Questionings of the Chivalric Ethos 151
16. 11. Lawrence the Ascetic 169
17. Conclusion 193
18. Appendix: "Orientalism" and the Undiscovered Subtexts in Seven Pillars of Whdom 203
19. Selected Bibliography 209
20. Index 217