Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography by Mermier, Guy R.

Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780820441238)

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Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography by Mermier, Guy R.

Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography

$54.95
Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography by Mermier, Guy R.

Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography

$54.95
Format: Hardcover
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Malory's version of the Grail Quest in The Morte Darthur presents several difficulties for scholars, most important, whether it should be read as a chivalric romance or as a theological treatise like its source, the French Queste. This study looks at a popular fifteenth-century English genre - the saints' lives - and shows that Malory's Grail story reads very much like the saints' lives written by Lydgate, Capgrave, and Bokenham, which satisfied the same readership that Malory enjoyed. As Vinaver observed, Malory's Grail story had more in common with the lives of saints than with chivalric romance.

Author: Guy R. Mermier,Alfred Robert Kraemer
ISBN-10: 0820441236
ISBN-13: 9780820441238
Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
Language: English
Published: 11/01/1999
Pages: 144
Format: Hardcover
By Guy R. Mermier
By Guy R. Mermier
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The Author: Alfred Robert Kraemer teaches in Greensboro, North Carolina. He received his Ph.D. in English from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. His research interests include late medieval and early renaissance prose and poetry.

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