'For nearly five hundred years, ' says M. C. Bradbrook, 'since its publication from William Caxton's printing press at Westminster on 31 July 1485, Malory's Morte Darthur has stood at the centre of English literature.' Again: 'Chaucer in the fourteenth century and Malory in the fifteenth together laid the foundations of modern English narrative.' Such judgments indicate the importance of Sir Thomas Malory. Not much is known about him personally,...