How did William Caxton help popularize Le Morte Darthur?

William Caxton played a pivotal role in popularizing Sir Thomas Malory’s Le Morte Darthur by printing the work in 1485.12

As the first English printer, Caxton was instrumental in making literature accessible to a broader audience by publishing works in English rather than Latin. By producing a printed edition of Malory’s prose account of King Arthur and the Round Table, Caxton helped transition the text from a manuscript tradition to the wider distribution made possible by the advent of the printing press. His efforts were part of a broader commitment to printing the English literature available to him at the time, which helped standardize the language and ensure that significant works of chivalric romance reached a wider public beyond the nobility.1324