Malory and Christianity: Essays on Sir Thomas Malory's Morte Darthur

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Contents Prefatory note vii Introduction 1 “All maner of good love comyth of God”: Malory, God’s Grace, and 9 noble Love D. Thomas Hanks, Jr. Adulterated Love: The tragedy of Malory’s Lancelot and Guinevere 29 Corey Olsen endless virtue and trinitarian Prayer in Lancelot’s Healing of urry 56 Sue Ellen Holbrook Christian Rituals in Malory: The evidence of Funerals 77 Karen Cherewatuk Rhetoric, Ritual, and Religious Impulse in Malory’s book 8 92 Janet Jesmok Christianity and Social Instability: Malory’s Galahad, Palomides, and 107 Lancelot Dorsey Armstrong Slouching towards bethlehem: Secularized Salvation in Le Morte Darthur 127 Fiona Tolhurst Malory’s Secular Arthuriad 157 K. S. Whetter “In my harte I am [not] crystynde”: What Can Malory offer the 180 nonreligious Reader? Felicia Nimue Ackerman bibliography 191 Contributors 203 Index 207 ...