Table of Contents

Part 1 The high order of knighthood: late medieval views of knighthood; the office of kingship; the office of king's knights. Part 2 A typology of knoghthood: Gawain, Tor and Pellinor; Gawain, Marhalt and Ywain; the literary ancestry of Malory's three types. Part 3 True knighthood: Lancelot and Gawain - King Arthur's Warriors; Lancelot and Galahad - potential Grail knights; Lancelot and Gareth - the courtly option. Part 4 Worshipful knighthood; Tristram and Arthur - the courtiers and the prince; Lancelot and Palomides - lovers and knights-errant; Lamorak and Gawain - rivals for worship; who may see the Grail? - the testing of worshipful knighthood. Part 5 Happy and unhappy knights: Balin's "Unhappy Sword" and the heroic code of vengeance; "happynesse" and "unhappynesse"; "Lancelot Other Ellis Galahad" - the quest for "happynesses". Part 6 Standing with "true justyce": Lancelot versus Mador de la Porte; Lancelot versus Mellyaguant; Lancelot versus Gawain. Part 7 Malory's "hoole book" and the death of Arthur.