Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. General Editors’ Foreword vii
4. List of Contributors ix
5. I Introduction to the Morte Darthur, Parts 7 and 8 1
6. II Malory’s Text of the Suite du Merlin 39
7. III Why Arthur at all? The Dubious Arthuricity of Arthur and Gorlagon 77
8. IV The Aesthetics of Communication: Sterility and Fertility in the Conte del Graal Cycle 97
9. V ‘Whyche thyng semeth not to agree with other histories ...’: Rome in Geoffrey of Monmouth and his early modern readers 109
10. VI Arthurian Texts in their Historical and Social Context 131
11. VII The Post-Christian Arthur 149
12. VIII The Arthurian Legend in Literature, Popular Culture and the Performing Arts, 2004–2008 171