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Malory Moralisé: The Disarming of Le Morte Darthur, 1800-1918
- Arthuriana
- Scriptorium Press
- Volume 9, Number 4, Winter 1999
- pp. 81-93
- 10.1353/art.1999.0002
- Article
- Additional Information
Nineteenth-century revivers of Malory were consistently antipathetic to his fight scenes. They abridged and misleadingly moralized the fights to let the Morte become an exemplar of Victorian 'chivalry.'