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| Preface | |
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| The Early Arthur | |
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| What is the Historical Evidence of a 'Real' Arthur? | |
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| Geoffrey of Monmouth | |
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| Wace, Roman de Brut | |
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| Layamon's Brut | |
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| The Romancing of the Arthurian Story: Chretien de Troyes | |
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| The Chivalric Love-Romance | |
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| Chretien de Troyes | |
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| Lancelot, ou Le Chevalier de la Charrette | |
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| Erec et Enide | |
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| Cliges | |
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| Yvain, ou Le Chevalier au Lion | |
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| Perceval, ou Le Conte du Graal, and its Continuations | |
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| The European Flourishing of Arthurian Romance: Lancelot, Parzival, Tristan | |
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| French Arthurian Romance in Verse and Prose | |
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| The Vulgate Cycle of Arthurian Romances | |
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| Arthurian Romance in Europe | |
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| Arthurian Romance in Germany | |
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| Gottfried von Strassburg, Tristan | |
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| Arthur, Lancelot and Gawain in Ricardian England | |
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| The Alliterative Morte Arthure | |
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| The Stanzaic Morte Arthur | |
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| Sir Gawain and the Green Knight | |
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| Malory's Morte D'Arthur | |
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| Publication and Author | |
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| The Winchester Manuscript | |
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| (Caxton's Books 1-4) | |
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| (Caxton's Books 5-7) | |
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| 'Sir Tristram of Lyones' (Caxton's Books 8-12) | |
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| 'The Tale of the Sankgreal' (Caxton's Books 13-17) | |
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| (Caxton's Books 18-21) | |
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| The Romance of Adventure | |
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| The Tragedy of Lancelot | |
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| The Arthurian Sleep and the Romantic Revival: Tennyson's Idylls of the King | |
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| Edmund Spenser | |
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| Arthur in the Seventeenth Century | |
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| Arthur in the Eighteenth Century | |
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| Sir Walter Scott | |
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| 'The Return to Camelot' | |
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| Tennyson's Idylls of the King | |
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| Victorian Arthurianism | |
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| Mark Twain, T. H. White, John Steinbeck and the Modern Arthur | |
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| Mark Twain, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court | |
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| T. H. White, The Once and Future King | |
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| John Steinbeck, The Acts of King Arthur and his Noble Knights | |
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| The Modern Arthur: Novels and Films | |
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| Notes | |
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| Bibliography of Works Cited and Further Reading | |
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| Index | |