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  Sir Thomas Malory
Sir Thomas Malory is the author of Le Morte d'Arthur, said to have been completed in 1469 (or 1470) then revised and printed by William Caxton in 1485.
Malory's most commonly accepted historical identity as a Warwickshire knight is based on the research and advocacy of George Lyman Kittredge (1860-1941), an American scholar and noted authority on the English language and literature, who published a monograph "Who Was Sir Thomas Malory?" in 1897.
His father was John Malory, a landowner in Warwickshire, Leicestershire, and Northamptonshire, who was twice sheriff, five times a Member of the British Parliament, and a Justice of the Peace (Magistrate).
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  Sir Thomas Malory - LoveToKnow 1911
It seems probable that he is also to be identified with a "Thomas Malorie, miles," who in 1468 was, on account of the part played by him in the Wars of the Roses, excluded with several others from the operation of a pardon issued by Edward IV.
The great charm of Malory's work lies in his style; stately, earnest and dignified, it has lent to the relations between Lancelot and Guenevere a character of truth and vitality in which the French original is wholly lacking.
Malory achieved a remarkable feat - he took the Arthurian story in its worst and weakest form and he imparted to it a moral force and elevation which the cycle, even in its earlier and finer stage, had, save in the unique case of Von Eschenbach's Parzival, never possessed.
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 Sir Thomas Malory Collection at Bartleby.com
She which rode upon the lion betokeneth the new law of holy church, that is to understand, faith, good hope, belief, and baptism.
It is almost certain that he was Sir Thomas Malory of Newbold Revell, Warwickshire.
Knighted in 1442, he served in the Parliament of 1445.…; Malory’s original book was called The Book of King Arthur and His Noble Knights of the Round Table and was made up of eight romances that were more or less separate.
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 Sir Thomas Malory
The problem then is to find a Thomas Malory who was (a) a knight, (b) alive in the ninth year of King Edward IV (March 4, 1469 to March 3, 1480), and (c) who was, no longer living in July (or June) 1485.
The great charm of Malory's work lies in his style; stately, earnest and dignified, it has lent to the relations between Lancelot and Guenevere a character of truth and vitality in which the French original is wholly lacking.
Malory achieved a remarkable feat -- he took the Arthurian story in its worst and weakest form and he imparted to it a moral force and elevation which the cycle, even in its earlier and finer stage, had, save in the unique case of Von Eschenbach's Parzival, never possessed.
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