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Article: The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature.(Review)
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- Medium Aevum
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- March 22, 2001
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The Arthur of the English: The Arthurian Legend in Medieval English Life and Literature, ed. W. R. J. Barron, Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages 2 (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1999), xvii + 395 pp. ISBN 0-7083-1477-5. 35.00 [pounds sterling].
Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, edited by R. S. Loomis in 1959, became one of the most useful and influential medieval collaborative projects. Time has dated Loomis's great work, and so the Vinaver Trust, established to commemorate another great post-war Arthurian, has undertaken a revision under the general editorship of W. R. J. Barron. The extraordinary growth of scholarship means that the new ...