Haunting Pieties: Malory's Use of Chivalric Christian Exempla after the Grail

Abstract

Malory's 'The Poisoned Apple' and 'The Healing of Sir Urry' are linked to Christian exempla that assign moral and theological meaning to knightly action. The absence of morals supplied by the narrator, however, forces the audience to decide for themselves how to resolve the various inter- and intra-textual tensions, and raises questions of how much moral authority resides within the matter of exempla and how much is a matter of the author's intention or the audience's will.

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