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title	:	The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory Arthurian Studies, 0261-9814 ; 29
author	:	Field, P. J. C.
publisher	:	Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
isbn10 | asin	:	0859915662
print isbn13	:	9780859915663
ebook isbn13	:	9780585165707
language	:	English
subject	Malory, Thomas,--Sir,--15th cent, Great Britain--History--Lancaster and York, 1399-1485--Biography, Authors, English--Middle English, 1100-1500--Biography, Knights and knighthood--England--Biography, Arthurian romances--Authorship.
publication date	:	1993
lcc	:	PR2045.F54 1993eb
ddc	:	823/.2
subject	:	Malory, Thomas,--Sir,--15th cent, Great Britain--History--Lancaster and York, 1399-1485--Biography, Authors, English--Middle English, 1100-1500--Biography, Knights and knighthood--England--Biography, Arthurian romances--Authorship.

Page i ARTHURIAN STUDIES XXIX The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory

Page ii ARTHURIAN STUDIES ISSN 0261-9814 Previously published volumes in the series are listed at the back of this book

Page iii The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory P. J. C. Field D. S. BREWER

Page iv P.J.C. Field 1993 All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system, published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted, recorded or reproduced in any form or by any means, without the prior permission of the copyright owner First published 1993 by D. S. Brewer, Cambridge Reprinted in paperback 1999 D. S. Brewer is an imprint of Boydell & Brewer Ltd PO Box 9, Woodbridge, Suffolk IP12 3DF, UK and of Boydell & Brewer Inc. PO Box 41026, Rochester, NY 14604-4126, USA website: http://www.boydell.co.uk ISBN 0 85991 385 6 hardback ISBN 0 85991 566 2 paperback A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 93-20187 This publication is printed on acid-free paper Printed in Great Britain by Athenum Press Ltd, Gateshead, Tyne & Wear

Page v Contents Preface vii Abbreviations viii I Alternatives 1 II Identification 25 III Ancestry 36 IV Birth 54 V Growing Up 65 VI Politics and Private Life 83 VII Prison 105 VIII Reversals 126 IX Kinsmen 148 X Armorial 162 XI Conclusion 170 Appendices I The Malory Family in the Middle Ages 175 II Edward IV's Knight-Companions, November 1462 196 III The Manor of Newbold Revel, 11801480 203 IV Constables of the Tower of London, 13871513 205 Index 209

Page vi To Vanessa

Page vii Preface In this attempt at as full a description of Sir Thomas Malory's life as present knowledge allows, I have accumulated a debt of gratitude to many archivists and librarians who care for the documentary evidence on which such an attempt must be based, in county record offices from Exeter to Lincoln and from Chelmsford to Shrewsbury, and other institutions from the Borthwick Institute in York to the Public Record Office in London. First versions of Chapters I and II appeared in Medium Aevum, of Chapter IV in Midland History, of Chapter V in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, of Chapters VI and VII in The Bulletin of the Institute of Historical Research, and of Chapter VIII in the The Bulletin of the John Rylands Library. I am obliged to the editors of those journals for the permission to reproduce whatever first appeared in their pages. I am also grateful to the University of Wales at Bangor for two terms of study leave, and to Commander C.G. Vyner for permission to use the Vyner family papers, once at Studley Royal and now in the Leeds City Archives Department. I have also benefited from the advice and assistance of many individuals. Some particular obligations are acknowledged in my notes, but I must name here Dr Rowena Archer, Dr Richard Barber, Mr Robert Bearman, Dr Lionel Butler, Mr J.M. Collinson, Professor W.H. Dunham, Mrs Eileen Gooder, Professor Richard R. Griffith, Dr M.A. Hicks, Mr A. Giles Jones, Miss M.A.L. Locherbie-Cameron, Dr Caterina Maddalena, Miss Helen Miller, Rev. Fr. Joseph Mizzi, Dr Carole Rawcliffe, Mr Tomos Roberts, Mrs Janette Shepherd, Mr G.A. Usher, Dr Roger Virgoe, and Miss Pamela Willis. All other debts, however, are dwarfed by those to my wife Vanessa, without whose encouragement, forbearance, and help this book would never have been completed.

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