18 books like Arthurian chronicles represented by Wace and Layamon

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The History of the Kings of Britain Geoffrey of Monmouth · 1973 · ★ 3.7 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Moderate The History of the Kings of Britain, by Geoffrey of Manmouth, with introduction by J. A. Giles. The Historia Regum Britanniae (English: The History of the Kings of Britain) is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written around 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years, beginning… Shares: Sources, Britons, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

Méliador Jean Froissart · 1895 Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

Cligès Chrétien de Troyes · 1888 · ★ 3.8 · 216p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Cligès is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. It is the second of his five Arthurian romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. The poem tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice. Shares: Medieval Civilization, Romances, Arthurian romances

The book of romance Andrew Lang · 1902 · 384p · ≈ 12h · Challenging From the Andrew Lang prismatic series, this is the "Book of Romance", a most attractive selection of what the editor calls "fairy-tales grown up," the Round Table romances and similar stories, with colored pictures and line pictures by H. J . Ford-making a book for the reside dreaming of romantic curly-heads, who will be unaware that they are learning the lore of their race… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances

The Queen's Man Sharon Kay Penman · 1996 · ★ 3.9 · 291p · ≈ 9h · Moderate The 12th Century sleuth, Justin de Quincy, investigates a murder which could shed light on a plot to usurp the crown of England. Prince John is scheming to unseat his brother, King Richard the Lionheart, who went missing as he was returning from a crusade. Shares: Medieval Civilization, History

Arthur Beram Saklatvala · 1967 · 221p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Arthur is a masculine given name of uncertain etymology. Its popularity derives from it being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur. Shares: Sources, Britons, Arthurian romances, History

The Hollow Hills Mary Stewart · 1973 · ★ 4.0 · 455p · ≈ 15h · Moderate Dark Ages. Keeping watch over the young Arthur Pendragon, the prince and prophet Merlin Ambrosius is haunted by dreams of the magical sword Caliburn, which has been hidden for centuries. When Uther Pendragon is killed in battle, the time of destiny is at hand, and Arthur must claim the fabled sword to become the true High King of Britain. Shares: Britons, Romances, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

Medieval Ghost Stories Andrew Joynes · 2001 · 176p · ≈ 5h · Moderate "Medieval Ghost Stories is a collection of ghostly occurences from the eighth to the fourteenth centuries; they have been found in monastic chronicles and preaching manuals, in sagas and heroic poetry, and in medieval romances. In a religious age, the tales bore a peculiar freight of spooks and spirituality which can still make hair stand on end; unfailingly, these stories give a fascinating and… Shares: Medieval Civilization, History

The mystery of King Arthur Elizabeth Jenkins · 1975 · ★ 3.5 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate This book offers students a method for understanding and mastering the rhetorical patterns that comprise expository writing. Its exercises ask students to arrange jumbled sentences into logical order, forming model essays for standard rhetorical patterns such as comparison/contrast, classification, and thesis support. These techniques force students to see the basic logic of different writing… Shares: Sources, Britons, Arthurian romances, History

King Arthur in legend and history Richard White · 1997 · 589p · ≈ 19h · Moderate Presenting selections from medieval Latin, Welsh, English, French and German literature, Richard White traces the Arthurian legend from the earliest mentions of Arthur in Latin chronicles to Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. Many of these selections are translated here for the time into English.Bringing together an extensive range of diverse material which reveals the development of the figure… Shares: Sources, Britons, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

Brut Layamon · 1924 · 140p · ≈ 4h · Challenging "This version of Brut is a rendering into modern English, in verse format, of the Middle English story of Britain, from its founding by the legendary Brutus, a supposed descendant of the Trojans, to the final loss of land and prestige when the Saxons took over Britain. Lawman, a priest in the Welsh Marches in the diocese of Worcester, was translating from the twelfth-century French octosyllabic… Shares: Britons, Romances, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

Brut Layamon · 1847 · ★ 4.0 · 160p · ≈ 5h · Challenging With centuries of literature, it's inevitable that some will fall through the cracks. We hunt down public domain works and restore them so they're not lost to the world. Who are we? We're Cairn Press. Our background is in design, publishing, typography, and technology. These skills fuel our mission to create the highest quality Public Domain eBooks available online, at an affordable price. We… Shares: Britons, Romances, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

Mythology of King Arthur and his knights Evelyn Wolfson · 2014 Out of dark and violent centuries, legends of a great leader arose. King Arthur became one of the most famous figures in British literature. During the Dark Ages, Britain was without a king and the land was divided. Death and destruction reigned over the land as power-hungry overlords armed themselves and fought against their fellow countrymen. Evelyn Wolfson examines both legend and historical… Shares: Britons, Arthurian romances, Great Britain, History

Arthur Stephen R. Lawhead · 1989 · ★ 4.0 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate E-Book Extra: "Stephen R. Lawhead on…" (The writing process; The Atlantis/Britain connection; Whether or not Arthur existed, etc.)They called him unfit to rule, a lowborn, callow boy, Uther's bastard.But his coming bad been foretold in the songs of the bard Taliesin. And be had learned powerful secrets at the knee of the mystical sage Merlin. He was Arthur -- Pendragon of the Island of the Mighty… Shares: Britons, Arthurian romances, Great Britain, History

Beltane the Smith Jeffery Farnol · 1915 · ★ 2.0 · 558p · ≈ 18h · Challenging A mighty man was Beltane the Smith, despite his youth already great of stature and comely of feature. Much knew he of woodcraft, of the growth of herb and tree and flower, of beast and bird, and how to tell each by its cry or song or flight; he knew the ways of fish in the streams, and could tell the course of the stars in the heavens; versed was he likewise in the ancient wisdoms and… Shares: Romances, Arthurian romances, History

King Arthur N. J. Higham · 2002 · 316p · ≈ 10h · Moderate The legend of King Arthur is one of the most persistent and powerful myths in western culture. Yet scholars today cannot agree on his dates, his location, his role, or even whether he really existed. King Arthur: Myth-making and History explores how and why historians and writers from the Middle Ages to the present day have constructed different accounts of this well-loved figure.King Arthur:… Shares: Sources, Britons, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

Layamons Brut, or Chronicle of Britain Layamon · 1847 · 676p · ≈ 22h · Demanding It is a history book. Roman de Brut or Brut is a verse literary history of Britain by the poet Wace. Written in the Norman language, it consists of 14, 866 lines. It is based on Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, and was probably begun around 1150 and finished in 1155. It was intended for a Norman audience interested in the legends and history of the new territories of the… Shares: Britons, Romances, Arthurian romances, History

The Last Enchantment Mary Stewart · 1979 · ★ 4.2 · 512p · ≈ 17h · Moderate Follow Merlin through a candid tale of adventure, enchantment and wonder as he spurs Arthur and his knights through a destiny to build Camelot and thwart evil; this almost bibliographical novel of Merlin's story gives a fresh take and gives deeper insight into the tales of King Arthur then is found in more common literature. Shares: Britons, Romances, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

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