Malory's Contemporary Audience

New readings of the Morte Darthur place both book and author within the historical and cultural context of fifteenth-century England. This book seeks to place Malory's Morte Darthur more firmly in its cultural and historical context. Its composition, in the mid to late fifteenth century, took place at a time of great upheaval for England, a period beginning with the loss of Bordeaux (and the Hundred Years War) and ending with the rise of Richard III. During this time the Morte was translated fro