1. For a more detailed examination of Arthurian ideals, see Elizabeth Archibald, ‘Questioning Arthurian ideals’, in The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend, ed. Elizabeth Archibald and Ad Putter (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009), pp. 139–53
2. Elizabeth Archibald, ‘Malory’s ideal of fellowship’, Review of English Studies n.s. 43, 171 (1992), 311–28.
3. A. C. Spearing, ‘The Awntyrs off Arthure’ in The Alliterative Tradition in the Fourteenth Century, eds Bernard S. Levy and Paul E. Szarmach (Kent, OH: Kent State University Press, 1981), pp. 183–202
4. A. C. Spearing, ‘Central and Displaced Sovereignty in Three Medieval Poems’, Review of English Studies 33 (1982), 247–61, esp. 248–52;
5. A. C. Spearing, Medieval to Renaissance in English Poetry (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985), pp. 121–42.