One often-overlooked piece of the sixteenth-century scholar Roger Ascham’s denunciation of Le Morte Darthur has big consequences for our understanding of the politics of northern Wales in Malory:
Beware of Walys, Criste Ihesu mutt us kepe, That it make not oure childes childe to wepe.
—The Libelle of Englyshe Polycye1
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Hodges, K. (2014). Of Wales and Women: Guenevere’s Sister and the Isles. In: Mapping Malory. Arthurian and Courtly Cultures. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137443274_3
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