Allen's study deals with Lawrence's lifelong interest in the medieval world, especially medieval literature, and its considerable influence on his view of himself and of the Arabs with whom he fought in an archaic theater of war, and hence his own literary production. The Medievalism of Lawrence of Arabia investigates the influence Lawrence's interest in medieval life and literature had on his attitudes toward life in general and--in content, theme, and diction--on his masterpiece, Seven Pillars of Wisdon, in particular. M.D. Allen begins with a brief biography of T.E. Lawrence--his early interest in things medieval and his somewhat controversial B.A. thesis on crusader castles. Allen then reveals the extent to which Lawrence's ideas about honor, warfare, and chivalry in the Arab war against the Turks were shaped by his reading in medieval writings such as Malory's Morte D'Arthur. (Both, as he makes clear, were warrior societies dominated by horses.) Lawrence's reading in the...

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