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The article presents a literary criticism for "Le Morte d'Arthur" a reworking by Thomas Malory of existing tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. It reports that Malory interpreted existing French and English stories about these figures and adds original material.

The purpose of this paper is to explore criminal conversations as set against the background of Medieval Western Europe. During the early Middle Ages, as most noble marriages were little more than business contracts, love had begun to be seen in a very different way: sometimes as a cult with all the trappings of religion, sometimes as a sinful occupation best expunged from the human system, and sometimes as a romantic experience which foreshadows the ideas of the 18th and 19th centuries. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]