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King Arthur : the making of the legend /
According to legend, King Arthur saved Britain from the Saxons and reigned over it gloriously sometime around A.D. 500. Whether or not there was a "real" King Arthur has all too often been neglected by scholars; most period specialists today declare themselves agnostic on this important ma...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2018]
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- Cover page; Halftitle page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; CONTENTS; PLATES AND MAPS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; Plates; INTRODUCTION Arthur, History and the Storytellers; Arthur in and out of history; The 'Dalmatian' Arthur and the Sarmatians; The 'Greek' Arthur; The 'British' Arthurs; Approach and organisation; PART I The 'Foreign' Arthurs; 1 LUCIUS ARTORIUS CASTUS A 'Dalmatian' King Arthur?; The inscriptions; The longer inscription; The shorter inscription; A career in time; L. Artorius Castus and King Arthur; The 'Dalmatian connection'; 2 THE 'SARMATIAN CONNECTION'
- Sarmatia and the SarmatiansThe Iazyges, Marcus Aurelius and Sarmatian cavalry; The Sarmatians in Britain; Sarmatians and the later Empire; King Arthur and the Sarmatians; Culture and language; Sarmatian cavalry and medieval knights; The sword in the stone; Arthur and the Sarmatians; 3 KING ARTHUR AND THE NARTS; The Nart sagas; The story of Batraz; Batraz, Arthur and the sword in the water; Arthur's approach to Avalon; Arthur and the sword in the water; The deaths of Batraz and Arthur: parallels and possible origins; The Holy Grail; The cauldron of Annwn; The Wasamonga
- King Arthur and the Narts4 KING ARTHUR AND THE GREEKS; The Arktouros tradition; Greek influences in pre- Roman Britain; Roman Britain and Greek culture; The name Arcturus; Excalibur and the Round Table; Arthur and the Greeks: in conclusion; PART II The 'British' Arthur; 5 A DARK AGE KING ARTHUR; The mythological Arthur; Riothamus; Arthur and Gildas's De Excidio Britanniae; Y Gododdín; 'The Lament for Cynddylan' (Marwnad Cynddylan); Princely Arthurs around the Irish Sea; Bede and the Britons; Arthur in the British Dark Ages; 6 ARTHUR AND THE HISTORIA BRITTONUM; A 'history' in context
- Establishing the textStyle, authorship and purpose; Arthur in chapter 56 of the Historia Brittonum; Historical method in early ninth- century Wales; The northern dimension; The Arthur of the Historia Brittonum; 7 A BRITISH ARTHUR Starting the Tradition; Camelot; The Annales Cambriae; The Mirabilia Britanniae; Arthur in the landscape; What man is the Gate- Keeper?; Geraint, Son of Erbin; Preiddeu Annwn; Culhwch and Olwen; The Welsh Triads; The British saints' lives; Concerning the Miracles of Saint Maria of Laon; 'A certain very old book in the British tongue'
- The Arthurian tradition: beginnings8 'FIRE', 'SMOKE' AND 'HIGHLAND MIST'; Arthur's rise and fall; Arthur's return; 'Positivist' solutions post-Morris; Arthur and the agnostics; Arthur and British history; Appendix I THE 'ARTORIUS' INSCRIPTIONS; Appendix II ARTHUR'S BATTLES AS DESCRIBED IN THE HISTORIA BRITTONUM AND ANNALES CAMBRIAE; Appendix III THE MIRABILIA: A LIST OF WONDERS AND MIRACLES THAT BECAME ATTACHED TO THE HISTORIA BRITTONUM; ABBREVIATIONS; ENDNOTES; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX