Worlds of Arthur
Facts and Fictions of the Dark Ages
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 29 May 2014
- ISBN 9780198700845
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages400 pages
- Size 214x135x21 mm
- Weight 493 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 20 black and white halftones, 15 maps 20
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Short description:
The story of King Arthur - probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary of medieval kings.
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King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales of this legendary figure have blossomed and multiplied. And in more recent times, there has been a continuous stream of books claiming to have discovered the 'facts' about, or to unlock the secret or truth behind, the 'once and future king'.
Broadly speaking, there are two Arthurs. On the one hand is the traditional 'historical' Arthur, waging a doomed struggle to save Roman civilization against the relentless Anglo-Saxon tide during the darkest years of the Dark Ages. On the other is the Arthur of myth and legend - accompanied by a host of equally legendary people, places, and stories: Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad and Gawain, Merlin, Excalibur, the Lady in the Lake, the Sword in the Stone, Camelot, the Round Table.
The big problem with all this is that 'King Arthur' might well never have existed. And if he did exist, it is next to impossible to say anything at all about him. As this challenging new look at the Arthur legend makes clear, all books claiming to reveal 'the truth' behind King Arthur can safely be ignored. Not only the 'red herrings' in the abundant pseudo-historical accounts, even the 'historical' Arthur is largely a figment of the imagination: the evidence that we have - whether written or archaeological - is simply incapable of telling us anything detailed about the Britain in which he is supposed to have lived, fought, and died. The truth, as Guy Halsall reveals in this fascinating investigation, is both radically different - and also a good deal more intriguing.
An excellent antidote to fantasising.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Part I: Old Worlds
The Story of 'King Arthur'
The Matter of Arthur: the Traditional Narrative
Swords in the Stones: the Archaeology of Post-Imperial Britain
Part II: Present Worlds
The Antimatter of Arthur: Reassessing the Written Sources
Continuity or Collapse? The End of Roman Britain
Beyond Brooches and Brochs: Rethinking Early Medieval British Archaeology
Part III: Mad Worlds
Red Herrings and Old Chestnuts
Part IV: New Worlds?
The Matter of Arthur: Changing the Framework
Rethinking the Anglo-Saxon Migration and Setttlement (1): When Did the Anglo-Saxons Come to Britain?
Rethinking the Anglo-Saxon Migration and Setttlement (2): The Nature and Scale of the Migration
Fifth and Sixth Century Politics in Britannia
The End of the 'World of Arthur'
Further Reading
Index
