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The quest for Arthur's Britain Geoffrey Ashe · 1968 · ★ 3.8 · 238p · ≈ 7h · Moderate "A useful compendium of information about the Arthurian problem, the Arthurian legend, and about what archaeology says of western Britain." —Glyn Daniel, The Guardian   The legend of Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table dominates the mythology of Britain, but could this story prove more fact than fiction? Recent archaeological findings have led Geoffrey Ashe to believe there is more… Shares: Homes, Celtic Antiquities, Homes and haunts, Sources

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: Celtic Antiquities, Sources, Britons, Kings and rulers

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: Celtic Antiquities, Sources, Britons, Kings and rulers

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: Celtic Antiquities, Britons, Kings and rulers, Arthurian romances

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: Celtic Antiquities, Sources, Britons, Kings and rulers

Finding Arthur Adam Ardrey · 2013 · 352p · ≈ 11h · Moderate "The legend of King Arthur has been told and retold for centuries. As the king who united a nation, his is the story of England itself. But what if Arthur wasn't English at all? As writer and activist Adam Ardrey discovered, the reason historians have had little success identifying the historical Arthur may be incredibly simple: He wasn't an Englishman at all. He was from Scotland. Finding Arthur… Shares: Celtic Antiquities, Historiography, Sources, Britons

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, Kings and rulers, Arthurian romances

Arthur's Britain Leslie Alcock · 1971 · ★ 3.7 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate The book is about the Arthur of history and the Britain in which he lived. It demonstrates that Arthur was no figment of myth, but a genuine historical figure and a symbol for Britain's attempt to reytain her integrity in the aftermath of the Roman collapse and barbaric invasion. Shares: Celtic Antiquities, Homes and haunts, Sources, Britons

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: Historiography, Sources, Britons, Kings and rulers

Reinventing King Arthur Inga Bryden · 2016 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Moderate In her systematic reassessment of the remaking of the Arthurian past in nineteenth-century British fiction and non-fiction, Inga Bryden examines the Victorian Arthurian revival as a cultural phenomenon, offering insights into the relationship between social, cultural, religious, and ethnographic debates of the period and a wide range of texts. Throughout, she adopts an intertextual and historical… Shares: Historiography, Britons, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

The New Arthurian encyclopedia Norris J. Lacy · 1991 · 654p · ≈ 21h · Moderate "Like its predecessor, it deals with Arthuriana of all periods, from the earliest legends and texts to the present. Similarly, alongside literature, we have included history and chronicle, archaeology, art, film, and other media ... We have expnded the Encyclopedia from 700 entries to more than 1,200, with contributions from some 130 scholars rather than 94"--Preface. Shares: Celtic Antiquities, Britons, Kings and rulers, Arthurian romances

Arthurian chronicles represented by Wace and Layamon Wace · 1912 · 264p · ≈ 8h · Challenging Arthurian Chronicles Wace, Norman poet (1110-1174) This ebook presents «Arthurian Chronicles», from Wace. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected. Table of Contents About This Book Introduction Wace Layamon Excursus I. Arthur's Magic Possessions Excursus Ii. The Round Table Excursus Iii. The Hope Of Britain Bibliography Wace's Roman De Brut Shares: Sources, Britons, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

From Scythia to Camelot C. Scott Littleton · 1993 · 424p · ≈ 14h · Moderate This volume proposes that the core of the Arthurian and Holy Grail traditions derived not from Celtic mythology, but rather from the folklore of the peoples of ancient Scythia (what are now the South Russian and Ukrainian steppes). Also includes 19 maps. --From publisher's description. Shares: Celtic Antiquities, Britons, Kings and rulers, Arthurian romances

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, Kings and rulers, Arthurian romances, Great Britain

The Arthurian name dictionary Christopher W. Bruce · 1998 · 544p · ≈ 18h · Moderate This text presents a comprehensive dictionary of characters, places, objects and themes found in the legends of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. Information is drawn from significant Arthurian sources between Gildas's "De Excidio Britanniae" (c.540) and Tennyson's 19th-century "Idylls of the King". The book contains names extracted f Shares: Celtic Antiquities, Britons, Kings and rulers, Arthurian romances

The Age of Arthur John Morris · 1973 · ★ 3.9 · 665p · ≈ 22h · Moderate Disclaimer: This is the book of genesis only  The Henry Morris Study Bible is “an invaluable tool for the defense of the Christian faith” according to Dr. John MacArthur. With 600 study notes in Genesis alone, no other resource offers the comprehensive analysis of biblical creation and authority of Scripture as this one presents.  The written Word of God is under attack in our culture… Shares: Celtic Antiquities, Sources, Britons, Arthurian romances

In winter's shadow Gillian Bradshaw · 1982 · ★ 4.0 · 415p · ≈ 13h · Moderate Praise for Gillian Bradshaw:"A welcome new light on the horizon of popular Arthurian legend." – Book listVows broken. . .Friendships betrayed. . . The fate of heroes finally revealed. . .As powerful enemies attack the throne from inside the kingdom, Arthur, his queen, and his greatest warrior Gwalchmai will be put to the ultimate test. Never faltering in her loyalty to the king, Gwynhwyfar has… Shares: Britons, Kings and rulers, Arthurian romances, History

The Crimson Chalice Victor Canning · 1976 · 179p · ≈ 5h · Moderate When a party of marauding Saxons destroy her father's villa, young Roman girl Gratia, 'Tia' escapes. She comes upon the body of the heir to the chieftanship of a British tribe in the west. Baradoc, a prisoner of Phoenician traders, was sold as a slave and is also escaping the Saxons. However, after being attacked he was left for dead by his cousin, the next heir. Tia nurses him back to health,… Shares: Britons, Kings and rulers, Arthurian romances

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