Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Illustrations and Tables ix
4. List of Contributors xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I The Early Tradition in England
7. 1 ‘But here Geoffrey falls silent’: Death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie 15
8. 2 Mordred’s Sons 33
9. 3 Dying in Uncle Arthur’s Arms and at His Hands 50
10. PART II Middle English Romance and Malory
11. 4 ‘Hadet with an aluisch mon’ and ‘britned to noȝt’: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Death, and the Devil 71
12. 5 Love and Death in Arthurian Romance 94
13. 6 Death in the Margins: Dying and Scribal Performance in the Winchester Manuscript 115
14. 7 The Legible Corpses of Le Morte Darthur 124
15. 8 Malory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at Salisbury Plain 136
16. 9 ‘Layde to the Colde Erthe’: Death, Arthur’s Knights, and Narrative Closure 151
17. 10 Arthurian Exits: Alone, Together, or None of the Above 169
18. 11 Woman as Agent of Death in Tennyson’s Idylls of the King 193
19. 12 Death as ‘Neglect of Duty’ in Howard Pyle’s The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur 206
20. 13 Death and the ‘grimly voice’ in David Jones’s In Parenthesis 226
21. 14 Roll the Final Credits: Some Notes on Cinematic Depictions of the Death of Arthur 241
22. Index 249