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Also Known As matter of Britain • matière de Bretagne • Arthurian romance

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Original drawing by Aubrey Beardsley for an 1893–94 edition of Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory.
Thomas Malory
English writer
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Chrétien de Troyes
French poet
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Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Hartmann von Aue
German poet
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Raoul de Houdenc
French author and trouvère
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Lawamon
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Geoffrey Of Monmouth
English bishop and chronicler
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T. H. White
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