ABSTRACT
“The marketplace,” Elizabeth S. Sklar once declared, “contributes more vitally to the survival and perpetuation of the Arthurian narrative than does the academy, for it reaches an infinitely larger and more complicitous audience.” 1 Although academic medievalists may wish to debate the vitality of their contributions, Sklar’s statement provokes a multitude of questions: Who constitutes that audience? In what ways are they complicit in the Arthurian narrative? And to what extent is the marketplace involved?
