Le Morte d'Arthur | Further Thoughts on the Mort Artu
In their joint article, Lynette R. Muir and Howard Bloch focus on the duel between Lancelot and Gauvain in La Mort le roi Artur, offering their separate interpretations of the oaths sworn by the combatants before that duel and how each pertains to judicial law in the Arthurian court.
In his recent article, "From Grail Quest to Inquest," Professor Bloch has analysed the legal aspects of the two trials by combat described in the Mort Artu with special reference to the picture they give of the workings of feudal justice in the early thirteenth century. Professor Bloch has earned the gratitude of all Arthurians by his sensitive and minute analysis of the legal background and implications of these two duels which provide a major part of the structural framework of the romance. In his discussion of the second duel, however, that between Lancelot and Gauvain, there...
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