Malory and Christianity: Essays on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur

by D Thomas Hanks Jr (Editor), Janet Jesmok (Editor)

Overview

As Hanks and Jesmok note in their introduction, "pursuing opponents and pursuing love move the Morte's narrative, but the work's richness comes from its romance and tragic elements: the human quest for maturity and fulfillment and those uncontrollable forces that undermine the quest and destroy the dream. Malory's use of myth and magic to explore these themes has received extensive scholarly attention, but his views on and thematic use of Christianity have long needed a closer look."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781580441759
Publisher:	Medieval Institute Publications
Publication date:	05/01/2013
Series:	Studies in Medieval Culture , #51
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.17(h) x (d)

About the Author

Janet Jesmok retired from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee in 2001, where she was Assistant Director of the Honors Program and taught Honors courses in medieval and Arthurian literature. D. Thomas Hanks Jr. is a Professor in the English department at Baylor University. His research interests include Medieval English literature, especially the works of Geoffrey Chaucer and of Sir Thomas Malory.

Table of Contents

Prefatory Note Introduction "All maner of good love comyth of God": Malory, God's Grace, and Noble Love by D. Thomas Hanks, Jr. Adulterated Love: The Tragedy of Malory's Lancelot and Guinevere by Corey Olsen Endless Virtue and Trinitarian Prayer in Lancelot's Healing of Urry by Sue Ellen Holbrook Christian Rituals in Malory: The Evidence of Funerals by Karen Cherewatuk Rhetoric, Ritual, and Religious Impulse in Malory's Book 8 by Janet Jesmok Christianity and Social Instability: Malory's Galahad, Palomides, and Lancelot by Dorsey Armstrong Slouching towards Bethlehem: Secularized Salvation in Le Morte Darthur by Fiona Tolhurst Malory's Secular Arthuriad by K. S. Whetter "In my harte I am [not] crystynde": What Can Malory Offer the Nonreligious Reader? by Felicia Nimue Ackerman Bibliography Contributors Index