The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth by Charles Derek Ross

The Custom of the Castle: From Malory to Macbeth

Charles Derek Ross

215 pages first pub 1997 (editions)

nonfiction history informative medium-paced
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The "custom of the castle" imposes strange ordeals on knights and ladies seeking hospitality—daunting, mostly evil challenges that travelers must obey or even defend. This seemingly fantastic motif, first conceived by Chrètien de Troyes in the twe...

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