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Article: The text of Sir Perceval of Galles.(Critical Essay)
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- Medium Aevum
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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The Middle English romance Sir Perceval of Galles (henceforth Perceval) was composed sometime in the fourteenth century, (1) and survives in a unique copy in the Thornton manuscript (Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91), copied by the Yorkshire gentleman Robert Thornton around the middle of the fifteenth century. (2) Since the editio princeps of the romance by James Orchard Halliwell-Phillips in 1844, (3) it has received somewhat more attention than other romances in the tail-rhyme tradition, if only because it was once believed to be a key witness to an archetypal version of the Perceval legend that supposedly lay behind the earliest extant forms of the story, which are ...
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Article: Fed: Last "Angry Penguin", John Perceval, dies aged 77
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... ... 2000 Fed: Last "Angry Penguin", John Perceval, dies aged 77 The last surviving member ... art movement the Angry Penguins, JOHN PERCEVAL, died in Melbourne yesterday aged 77 ... GERARD VAUGHAN has paid tribute to Mr Perceval and his work. Dr VAUGHAN says PERCEVAL ...
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