Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and the Order of the Garter

by Francis Ingledew

Book Overview

Francis Ingledew's book makes the case that Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, one of the canonical works of medieval English literature, should be recognized as a response to King Edward III's foundation in 1349 of the chivalric Order of the Garter. As well as providing the basis for a thorough reinterpretation of the poem's purposes and meanings, this argument dates to the mid-fourteenth-century reign of Edward III (1327-77) a poem conventionally...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0268031762
• ISBN13: 9780268031763
• Release Date: April 2006
• Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.0"