Contents

pp vii-viii

Illustrations and Tables

pp ix-ix

Dedication

pp x-x

List of Contributors

pp xi-xiv

Introduction

pp 1-14

Part I - The early Tradition in england

pp 15-16

1 - ‘But here Geoffrey falls silent’: Death, Arthur, and the Historia regum Britannie

pp 17-32

2 - Mordred's Sons

pp 33-49

3 - Dying in Uncle Arthur's Arms and at His Hands

pp 50-70

Part II - Middle English Romance and Malory

pp 71-72

4 - ‘Hadet with an aluisch mon’ and ‘britned to noℨt’: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Death, and the Devil

pp 73-93

5 - Love and Death in Arthurian Romance

pp 94-114

6 - Death in the Margins: Dying and Scribal Performance in the Winchester Manuscript

pp 115-123

7 - The Legible Corpses of Le Morte Darthur

pp 124-135

8 - Malory and the Death of Kings: The Politics of Regicide at Salisbury Plain

pp 136-150

9 - ‘Layde to the Colde Erthe’: Death, Arthur's Knights, and Narrative Closure

pp 151-166

Part III - Medieval Influence and Modern Arthuriana

pp 167-168

10 - Arthurian Exits: Alone, Together, or None of the Above

pp 169-192

11 - Woman as Agent of Death in Tennyson's Idylls of the King

pp 193-205

12 - Death as ‘Neglect of Duty’ in Howard Pyle's The Story of the Grail and the Passing of Arthur

pp 206-225

13 - Death and the ‘grimly voice“ in David Jones's In Parenthesis

pp 226-240

14 - Roll the Final Credits: Some Notes on Cinematic Depictions of the Death of Arthur

pp 241-248

Index

pp 249-260

Arthurian Studies

pp 261-263