{"product_id":"before-malory-richard-j-moll-9780802037220","title":"Before Malory: Reading Arthur in Later Medieval England","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlthough most modern scholars doubt the historicity of King Arthur, parts of the legend were accepted as fact throughout the Middle Ages. Medieval accounts of the historical Arthur, however, present a very different king from the romances that are widely studied today. Richard Moll examines a wide variety of historical texts including Thomas Gray's \u003ci\u003eScalacronica\u003c\/i\u003e and John Hardyng's \u003ci\u003eChronicle\u003c\/i\u003e to explore the relationship between the Arthurian chronicles and the romances. He demonstrates how competing and conflicting traditions interacted with one another, and how writers and readers of Arthurian texts negotiated a complex textual tradition. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMoll asserts that the enormous variety and number of existing chronicles demonstrates the immense popularity of the historical Arthur in medieval England. Since these chronicles were the dominant source of Arthurian information for the late medieval reader, they provide an invaluable, and neglected, interpretive context for modern readers of Malory and other later medieval romances. The first monograph to look at the impact of these historical texts on Arthurian literature, \u003ci\u003eBefore Malory\u003c\/i\u003e is also the first to show how canonical vernacular romances interacted with chronicle texts that have since dropped out of the canon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Richard J. Moll\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0802037224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780802037220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Toronto Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/27\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 400\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.61lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.24h x 6.36w x 1.32d","brand":"Richard J. Moll","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48065132724479,"sku":"9780802037220","price":100.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_12ac5fad-db61-4933-af49-fb855aa6a55e.jpg?v=1768673208","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/before-malory-richard-j-moll-9780802037220","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}