Sir Thomas Malory and the Cultural Crisis of the Late Middle Ages

by Robert Merrill

Sir Thomas Malory and the Cultural Crisis of the Late Middle Ages is an original inquiry into the psychology of the famous knights of Arthurian Romance - Lancelot, Tristram, Galahad - and the impact of the Round Table on their lives. Robert Merrill argues that the development of the Round Table mirrors the effort of medieval Catholicism to assert its doctrines as reality and the path to personal and social fulfillment and that Malory regarded such...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820403032
• ISBN13: 9780820403038
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 484 Pages