Synopses & Reviews
This edition of the complete works of the fourteenth-century Gawain-poet-Patience, Purity, Pearl, and Sir Gawain and the Green Knight-is the first collected edition since the manuscript. It presents a number of distinctive features, including a conservatively edited text; the original manuscript illustrations; apparatus, glosses, and notes on the page with the text; and a full introduction and bibliography.
Synopsis
This handy, compact, and authoritative volume provides readers and students with information about a multitude of Arthurian characters, places, themes, and topics from the first written records of early myths and legends through Sir Thomas Malory's epic Morte Darthur.