Sir Gawain And the Green Knight And the Order of the Garter (Paperback)

Review
"The primary immediate event at work in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is available to the reader in what has to date seemed mostly a textual curiosity, the inscription that appears in enlarged script at the poem's end in the poem's single extant manuscript: HONY SOYT Q MAL PENC - with one difference, the official motto (honi soit qui y mal pense, or 'shamed be he who thinks ill of it') of the monarchical Order of the Garter founded by Edward III on St. George's Day, April 23, 1349.... I will accept the invitation of that motto and pursue a reading of the poem as a reading of history whose po