Jon Passaro
Andrew W. Mellon Undergraduate Fellow in the Humanities
2005—2006 Forum on Word and Image
Jon Passaro
English, Philosophy
College '06
Reducing the Round Table: Visual and Textual Narrative Redaction in Medieval Arthurian Romance
In composing Le Morte Darthur, Sir Thomas Malory combined elements from multiple Arthurian romances, significantly editing his source material to cater to a 15th-century audience. Similarly, many manuscripts containing these source texts incorporate images that perform an editorial function on the texts, helping readers to navigate through these complex romances. In what ways do Malory and the images in his source material perform similar editorial functions?