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"Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Order of the Garter

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Description for "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Order of the Garter Paperback. Makes the case that Sir Gawain and the "Green Knight", one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III's foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter. This book is of interest to medievalist historians as well as literary scholars. Num Pages: 344 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBB; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 228 x 152 x 22. Weight in Grams: 517.

Francis Ingledew's book makes the case that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III's foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter. As well as providing the basis for a thorough reinterpretation of the poem's purposes and meanings, this argument dates to the mid-fourteenth-century reign of Edward III (1327–77) a poem conventionally ascribed to the reign of Richard II (1377–99).

Through close readings of the poem and of an array of overlooked historical sources, Ingledew presents Sir Gawain and ... Read more as a critique of Edward III's sexual and military behavior. Ingledew's argument takes him deep into chivalric practice in Edward's court of the 1340s, much of it connected with the early years of war with France. Ingledew pursues the significance of sexual scandal associated with Edward, especially the rape of the Countess of Salisbury confidently imputed to him by the formidable Liégois historian Jean le Bel. At the same time that he was trying to conquer France and Scotland and preside over a court vulnerable to scandal, Edward also called on the history (as it was seen) of King Arthur and the Round Table, associating himself with Arthur's imperial and moral authority through the founding of the Order of the Garter. In its portrayal of the Order of the Garter, Ingledew argues, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight sets itself at odds with Edward's central ethical and political projects.

A new and persuasive interpretation of a central literary text, this book will be of interest to medievalist historians as well as literary scholars.

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
University of Notre Dame Press United States
Number of pages
344
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Notre Dame IN, United States
ISBN
9780268031763
SKU
V9780268031763
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About Francis Ingledew
Francis Ingledew is associate professor in the School of English, Philosophy, and Humanities, Fairleigh Dickinson University.

Reviews for "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" and the Order of the Garter
"Francis Ingledew, in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter, proposes a radical, and in many ways plausible, new reading of the poem, which relates it much more closely to the foundation of the Order of the Garter. . . . [Ingledew argues] that the poem fits much better into the heyday of Edward III, ... Read more

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