Arthurian Literature XII

The incoming editors show every sign of maintaining the standard that under Richard Barber made this series a significant annual event in Arthurian studies.

• Profiting from the past - history as symbolic capital in the "Historia Regum Britanniae", Martin B. Shichtman and Laurie A. Finke; Gawain's rationalist pentangle, N.M. Davis; "The Awntyrs off Arthure" - structure and meaning - a reassessment, Helen Phillips; John Hardyng's chronicle and the Wars of the Roses, Felicity Riddy; romance and parataxis and Malory - the case of Sir Gawain's reputation, Bonnie Wheeler; Malory's "Le Morte Darthur" and court culture under Edward IV, Richard Barber; Sidonius and Riothamus - a glimpse of the historical Arthur?, Jeremy duQuesnay Adams; Arthur in Ireland - the earliest citation in native Irish literature, Ann Dooley; the second exhumation of King Arthur's remains at Glastonbury - 19 April 1278, John Carmi Parsons; a 15th-century revision of the Glastonbury epitaph to King Arthur, Michelle P. Brown and James P. Carley.