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CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABBREVIATIONS; Introduction; 1. The Text at Hand; Introduction: A Note on a 'Note on Editions'; Canons of Probability; The Malory Canon; 2. Caxton's preface: Historia and Argumentum; Introduction: Locating Fifteenth-Century Historiography; Earlier Medieval Historia; Caxton's Preface; Argumentum, Exemplarity and Ideology; Conclusion; 3. Malory's Moral Scribes: 'Balyn' in the Winchester Manuscript; Introduction: Exemplarity and Fifteenth-Century Literary Production; Visual Features of the Winchester Manuscript; Visual Effect and Cultural Authority
The Emergence of BalynThe Adventure of Balyn; 4. Usurpation, Right and Redress in Malory's Roman War; Introduction: The History of the Roman War; Fifteenth-Century Froissart: Textual History and Local Correspondence; Local Memory: Bear and Boar in Arthur's Dream; Right and Redress in Froissart's Chroniques: An Exemplum; Arthur's War Council: Chronicle and Re-legitimization; Taking the Exemplum: Arthur Answers the Ambassadors; The Conclusion of Malory's Roman War; 5. No Hint of the Future; Introduction: Memory and the Book; Contingencies of Fifteenth-Century Prose; May in Malory's Prose Morte
Return and/or ArrivalThe Last Fight; The Myrmidons of Death; Conclusion; EPILOGUE: Two Gestures of Closure; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
