The Occasion of the Morte Arthure: Textual History and Marginal Decoration in the Thornton MS

The physical make-up of the Morte Arthure section of Lincoln Cathedral MS 91 is rich in information about Robert Thornton's copying, and understanding, of the alliterative poem. The illustrations that accompany the Morte—including an amateur 'frontispiece' added much later—form an attentive and evolving response to the poem.