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Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography

Malory's Grail Seekers and Fifteenth-Century English Hagiography

Mermier, Guy R.
Kraemer, Alfred Robert

Hardcover

Series: Studies in the Humanities, Book 44

English as a Second LanguageLiterary CriticismAnthropology

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ISBN10: 0820441236
ISBN13: 9780820441238
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: Nov 1 1999
Pages: 144
Language: English
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.

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