1. Peter Coss, The Knight in Medieval England, 1000–1400 (Stroud, Gloucestershire: Alan Sutton Publishing, 1993), p. 134.
2. This last argument comes from Donald L. Hoffman, “Guenevere the Enchantress,” Arthuriana 9.2 (1999): 30–36.
3. For a thorough discussion of chronology in Malory (shaped by a desire to force everything into coherence), see Charles Moorman, The Book of Kyng Arthur: The Unity of Malory’s Morte Darthur (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1965), pp. 1–12.
4. Elizabeth Sklar, “The Undoing of Romance in Malory’s Morte Darthur,” Fifteenth-Century Studies 20 (1993): 309–32;
5. Catherine Batt, Malory’s Morte Darthur: Remaking Arthurian Tradition (New York: Palgrave, 2002), p. 104.