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Article: Raluca L. Radulescu, The Gentry Context for Malory's 'Morte Darthur'.(Book Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- September 22, 2004
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Raluca L. Radulescu, The Gentry Context for Malory's 'Morte Darthur', Arthurian Studies 55 (Cambridge: D. S. Brewer; Rochester, NY: Boydell & Brewer, 2003). viii + 165 pp. ISBN 0-85991-785-1. 45.00 [pounds sterling].
Raluca L. Radulescu promises a 'fresh investigation of [Malory's] work from the perspective of fifteenth-century gentry culture' (p. 1). This book (like Hyonjin Kim's recent The Knight without the Swora) derives its authority and confidence from the work of P. J. C. Field; ten years after the publication of his ground-breaking biography The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory, Field's thesis concerning Malory's identity has been almost universally ...