History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain, 1100-1300. (Reviews).

Publication: Medium Aevum

Publication Date: 22-SEP-01

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Michelle R. Warren, History on the Edge: Excalibur and the Borders of Britain, 1100-1300 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000), xiv + 302 pp. ISBN 0-8166-3491-2. 24.50 [pounds sterling].

There is obvious good sense in applying postcolonial theory to medieval Arthurian literature and its cultural and political context, as Michelle Warren has done here. Questions of such matters as dominion, legitimacy, and...

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