Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Scota 9
5. 2 Bad Girls and the Britons: Ronwein, the Feminist Villain of De gestis Britonum 21
6. 3 Primitivism, Colonialism, and the Rhetoric of Topography: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Giants of Albion and Britain’s Chalk Giant Figures 38
7. 4 The Reception of the Legendary History of Britain 67
8. 5 What we leave behind: Legacy in Malory’s Characterisation 88
9. 6 ‘Both /And’: Engaging the Alliterative Morte Arthure 111
10. 7 Some Problems with the Critical Reception of Malory’s ‘Boke of Sir Trystram’: Quondam nec Futurus 134
11. 8 Malory in the Time of Pandemic 158
12. 9 How to Handle a Woman: Aaron Sorkin’s Camelot 184
13. Epilogue: Painting Lions 205
14. Contributors 219
15. Index 222