The Death of King Arthur

The Alliterative Morte Arthure - the title given to a four-thousand line poem written sometime around 1400 - was part of a medieval Arthurian revival which produced such masterpieces as Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Sir Thomas Malory's prose Morte D'Arthur. Like Gawain, the AlliterativeMorte Arthure is a unique manuscript (held in the library of Lincoln Cathedral) by an anonymous author, an...