Le Morte d’Arthur (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Thomas Malory
- First Published: 1485
- Type of Work: Chronicle
- Type of Plot: Arthurian romance
- Time of Work: Age of chivalry
- Genres: Long fiction, Arthurian romance
- Subjects: Murder or homicide, England or English people, Adultery, Kings, queens, or royalty, Legends, Sixth century, Battles, Great Britain, Knights or knighthood, Chivalry, Holy Grail or Grail quest
- Locales: England
Places Discussed
Camelot. King Arthur’s primary residence and most important seat of power, home of the Round Table. Malory identifies Camelot as Winchester, though his sources had offered a range of other locations, mostly in southern England. William Caxton, for example, Malory’s first editor and publisher, writes an important preface to the work in which he concedes that the Round Table is indeed kept at Winchester but claims that Camelot itself is in Wales. Descriptions of the city and of the castle are as vague as those of its geographical location, and the image of...
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