At the end of the fourteenth century, Sir Gawain in Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is lauded for his ‘felaȝschyp forbe al þyng’ yet remains intrinsically alone: indeed, it is precisely a problematic relation to fellowship – to his dealings with Bertilak in (failed) hospitable reciprocation – that forces the crisis of the poem. The aim is to encourage students to see at once the similarities and changes through time in roughly a century of insular chivalric material, and to present a fresh reading of these texts which potentially charts the growth of a ‘civic’ understanding in both the production and consumption of Arthurian literature. It also provides a context for the concept of association by briefly reviewing the use of ‘fellowship’ in an array of London chronicles and gentry and merchant letters. It further introduces the students to a little-studied English text produced between Sir Gawain and Le Morte Darthur which serves to suggest a particular insular tradition and to develop the concept of fellowship in chivalric literature. Complementing the rest of the course, this lecture provides links between key texts and introduces a bridging concept – that of fellowship – touched on but underexplored in the lectures as they stand.

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