Information on cmmalory.m4

PPCME2 information

Text name	Malory's Morte Darthur
File name	cmmalory.m4
Manuscript	Winchester, Winchester College
Date	a1470
Dialect	West Midlands (Warwickshire)
Genre	Romance
Edition	Vinaver, Eugène. 1954. The works of Thomas Malory. London: Oxford University Press.
Sample	Pp. 2-71, 180-209, 626-670
Remarks	Thomas Malory was a soldier born to a Warwickshire family around 1410. He probably wrote the Morte Darthur in prison and finished it around 1469. He died in 1471. Book V is based on the English Alliterative Morte Arthure, and the rest is from various French romances.

Helsinki Corpus information

File name	CMMALORY
Text identifier	M4 NI ROM MALORY
Text name	MORTE DARTHUR
Author	MALORY THOMAS
Period	M4
Date of original	1420-1500
Date of manuscript	1420-1500
Contemporaneity	CONTEMP
Dialect	WML
Verse or prose	PROSE
Text type	ROMANCE
Relationship to foreign original	X
Foreign original	X
Relationship to spoken language	WRITTEN
Sex of author	MALE
Age of author	60-
Social rank of author	HIGH
Audience description	X
Participant relationship	X
Interaction	X
Setting	X
Prototypical text category	NARR IMAG
Sample	SAMPLE X