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1	Le Morte d'Arthur : King Arthur and the legends of the Round Table more books like this by Sir Thomas Malory add to wishlist First published in the 1400s, these classic tales of King Arthur, Camelot, and adventures of the Knights of the Round Table are translated and presented in this edition that features a new introduction written by Nobel Prize nominee Robert Graves ("I, Claudius"). see all copies from $2.30! new only from $4.00! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur more books like this by Bernard Cornwell add to wishlist Uther, the High King of Britain, has died, leaving the infant Mordred as his only heir. His uncle, the loyal and gifted warlord Arthur, now rules as caretaker for a country which has fallen into chaos - threats emerge from within the British kingdoms while vicious Saxon armies stand ready to invade. As he struggles to unite Britain and hold back ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.74! \| first editions \| SVS
3	The Oak Above the Kings more books like this by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison add to wishlist The second book in a trilogy which takes the reader to an earlier age in the history of the worlds and people of Keltia, a time out of legend, when Arthur himself must fight to regain the throne for the royal House of Don. It is the sequel to "The Hawkes Grey Feather". see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
4	King Arthur and His Knights: Selected Tales more books like this by Sir Thomas Malory, Eugene Vinaver (Editor) add to wishlist Thomas Malory, knight, adventurer, and soldier died on March 14, 1471, having spent the last 20 years of his life in prison, where he wrote most of his works. KING ARTHUR AND HIS KNIGHTS is a thoroughly readable, accurate rendering of Malory's famous stories of King Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Gawain, and the Holy Grail. It includes the familiar ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.22! \| first editions \| SVS
5	King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure more books like this by Helen E Corbin add to wishlist see all copies from $12.00! new only from $49.47! \| first editions
6	English literature at the close of the Middle Ages more books like this by E. K. Chambers add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! first editions
7	Middle English Romances more books like this by Stephen S H Shepherd, Stephen Sheperd, Stephen A Shepherd (Editor) add to wishlist This Norton Critical Edition brings together representative examples of one of the most important bodies of English poetry written before the Renaissance. These seven romances have been chosen not only for their literary importance but also for the light they shed on other important Middle English texts. They are complete, glossed and annotated. A ... see all copies from $4.50! new only from $18.46! \| first editions \| SVS
8	King Arthur's Death: The Middle English Stanzaic Morte Arthur and Alliterative Morte Arthure more books like this by Larry Dean Benson add to wishlist see all copies from $5.35! first editions
9	Romance and Chronicle: A Study of Malory's Prose Style more books like this by P J C Field add to wishlist see all copies from $4.93! new only from $21.86! \| first editions
10	The Grounds of English Literature more books like this by Christopher Cannon add to wishlist The centuries just after the Norman Conquest are the forgotten period of English literary history. In fact, the years 1066-1300 witnessed an unparalleled ingenuity in the creation of written forms, for this was a time when almost every writer was unaware of the existence of other English writing. In a series of detailed readings of the more ... see all copies from $26.03! new only from $35.60!
11	Gender and Romance in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales more books like this by Susan Crane add to wishlist In this fresh look at Chaucer's relation to English and French romances of the late Middle Ages, Crane shows that Chaucer's depictions of masculinity and femininity constitute an extensive and sympathetic response to the genre. For Chaucer, she proposes, gender is the defining concern of romance. As the foundational narratives of courtship, ... see all copies from $14.00! first editions
12	Middle English Verse Romances more books like this by Donald B Sands (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $42.03! \| first editions
13	The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare more books like this by Helen Cooper add to wishlist The English Romance in Time is a study of English romance across the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. It explores romance motifs - quests and fairy mistresses, passionate heroines and rudderless boats and missing heirs - from the first emergence of the genre in French and Anglo-Norman in the twelfth century down to the early seventeenth. This is a ... see all copies from $38.95! new only from $41.58!
14	King Arthur's Death more books like this by Larry D Benson (Editor) add to wishlist The Stanzaic Morte Arthur engages with the tragic implications of the chivalric love between Lancelot, Arthur and Guinevere; the Alliterative Morte Arthure with those of the aspirations of militant chivalry espoused by Arthur and his knights. The texts have been edited for readers who have little or no training in Middle English. see all copies from $12.44! new only from $28.32! \| first editions
15	Early English Prose Romances more books like this by William J. Thoms (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $17.99! new only from $17.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy more books like this by Professor Geraldine Heng add to wishlist Empire of Magic offers a genesis and genealogy for medieval romance and the King Arthur legend through the history of Europe's encounters with the East in crusades, travel, missionizing, and empire formation. It also produces definitions of "race" and "nation" for the medieval period and posits that the Middle Ages and medieval fantasies of race ... see all copies from $21.95! new only from $32.40! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Two Versions of Malory's Morte Darthur: Multiple Negation and the Editing of the Text more books like this by Ingrid Tieken-Boon Van Ostade add to wishlist Malory's "Morte Darthur" survives in two versions: the Winchester manuscript, which has been dated 1469-70, and the edition Caxton published in 1485. These versions were thought to be collaterally related through a common source to an original lost manuscript, until in 1977 new evidence suggested a linear descent. Dr Tieken-Boon van Ostade's study ... see all copies from $24.74! new only from $77.66! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	A Companion to Romance: From Classical to Contemporary more books like this by Corinne Saunders (Editor) add to wishlist Romance is a varied and fluid literary genre, notoriously difficult to define. This groundbreaking companion surveys the many permutations of romance throughout the ages. It considers the literary and historical development of the romance genre from its classical origins to the present day. It incorporates discussion of the changing readership of ... see all copies from $37.27! new only from $37.27! \| SVS
19 view cover	The Art of the Gawain-Poet more books like this by W A Davenport add to wishlist Starting frmo the assumption that Pearl, Puriry, Patience and Sir Gawain and thg Green Knight are by one poet, W.A. Davenport seeks to define the nature of his art. He makes a close analysis of each poem, considering the four not so much in their historical context as for their immediate poetic effect. The poet had a flair for vivid pictures and ... see all copies from $32.85! new only from $35.82! \| SVS
20 view cover	Romancing the Goddess: Three Middle English Romances about Women more books like this by Marijane Osborn (Translator), Geoffrey Chaucer add to wishlist Arguing that the idea of woman cast adrift can be traced to an ancient Mediterranean legend connecting aspects of the Virgin Mary and Isis as "sea goddesses", Marijane Osborn introduces and translates three stories, all dealing with women cast adrift, then shows how the stories forge a hitherto missing link with worship of a savior goddess in the ... see all copies from $9.94! new only from $32.98!
21 view cover	Three Tales of Love & Chivalry Eman Poet Lib #74 more books like this by Geoffrey Chaucer, Malcom Andrew (Editor) add to wishlist A selection of Chaucer's medieval chivalric romances. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| SVS
22 view cover	Pulp Fictions of Medieval England: Essays in Popular Romance more books like this by Nicola McDonald add to wishlist Nicola McDonald's collection and the romances it investigates are crucial to our understanding of the aesthetics of medieval narrative and to the ideologies of gender and sexuality, race, religion, political formations, social class, ethics, morality and national identity with which those narratives emerge. It should be valuable reading for ... see all copies from $35.13! new only from $35.13!
23 view cover	Chaucer and the Tradition of the Roman Antique more books like this by Barbara Nolan add to wishlist This is a detailed investigation of Chaucer's poetics in Troilus and Criseyde and the Knight's Tale in relation to an important continental narrative tradition. It is the first such wide-ranging study since Charles Muscatine's seminal Chaucer and the French Tradition and the first book to argue in detail that Chaucer's poems, Boccaccio's ... see all copies from $47.37! new only from $47.37! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Medieval Interpretation: Models of Reading in Literary Narrative, 1100 - 1500 more books like this by Robert Stuart Sturges add to wishlist Viewing the medieval period as an era of constant change rather than as a monolithic whole, Robert S. Sturges examines a wide variety of English and French literary works within the cultural contexts of the early and late Middle Ages. Sturges analyzes these medieval works in roughly chronological order, thus providing a sense of historical change ... see all copies from $11.07! new only from $42.25! \| first editions
25 view cover	Staging Early Modern Romance: Prose Fiction, Dramatic Romance, and Shakespeare more books like this by Mary Ellen Lamb add to wishlist This collection recovers the continuities between three forms of romance that have often been separated from one another in critical discourse: early modern prose fiction, the dramatic romances staged in England during the 1570s and 1580s, and Shakespeare's late plays. Although "Pericles", "Cymbeline", "Winter's Tale", and "The Tempest" have long ... see all copies from $74.55! new only from $114.76! \| first editions

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