Malory in wartime Britain

Gossedge, Rob ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3563-8341 2019. Malory in wartime Britain. Leitch, Megan G. and Rushton, Cory James, eds. A New Companion to Malory, Athurian Studies, vol. 87. D.S.Brewer, pp. 253-270. (10.2307/j.ctv136bvg0.21)

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Abstract

Medievalism in general, and Arthurian romance in particular, exercised a powerful influence on many writers and artists at work during the World Wars of the last century. Some of the uses were simply propagandist – as in the utilisation of Sir Galahad, St George and anonymous crusader knights in numerous recruitment posters.¹ Sometimes medievalism provided myths of consolation, as in the deliberate archaisms and chivalric cadences of eulogies and, later, memorials to the fallen.² They could also offer hope, as in such popular myths as the Angel of Mons, wherein a regiment of spectral archers from the Battle of Agincourt...

Item Type:	Book Section
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Schools > English, Communication and Philosophy
Publisher:	D.S.Brewer
ISBN:	9781843845232
Last Modified:	22 Oct 2025 10:30
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/121582

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