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Arthurian Age
Archaeology and history of post-Roman Britain, predominantly in the west, outside the areas of Anglo-Saxon settlement.
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Arthurian Period Sources Vol 4: Places and Peoples and Saxon Archaeology
by John Morris
When the late Dr. Morris wrote The Age of Arthur he expected that it would soon be complemented by nine volumes of Arthurian Period Sources providing the evidential foundation upon which his narrative history of sub-Roman Britain rested. They were to provide the reader with material permitting direct evaluation of the problems faced by historians studying British and Irish events of the 4th to the 7th centuries. He died leaving three volumes ...
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Arthurian Sources Volume 6: Studies in Dark-Age History
by John Morris
When the late Dr. Morris wrote The Age of Arthur he expected that it would soon be complemented by nine volumes of Arthurian Period Sources providing the evidential foundation upon which his narrative history of sub-Roman Britain rested. They were to provide the reader with material permitting direct evaluation of the problems faced by historians studying British and Irish events of the 4th to the 7th centuries. He died leaving three volumes ...
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Arthurian Period Sources Volume 1: Introduction, Notes and Index
edited by John Morris
An important source material for students of Dark-Age Britain, this six-volume work details a large corpus of refences and accounts of the period which, whilst not drawing too many conclusions, does allow students to examine the nature and extent of records available.
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Excavations at Tintagel Castle, Cornwall, 1990-1999
by Rachel C Barrowman, Colleen E Batey and Christopher D Morris
Romantic rock-perched sea-girt Tintagel is a magical place that resonates with Arthurian associations - and the archaeological reality is no less intriguing than the legend. Investigation of the site began in the 1930s, when Dr Ralegh Radford uncovered remains of buildings with significant volumes of eastern Mediterranean and North African pottery of fifth- to seventh-century date, suggesting a western British site of iconic importance in the ...
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The Object and the Cause in the Vulgate Cycle
by Miranda Griffin
The thirteenth-century French Vulgate Cycle is the earliest vernacular text to trace the Arthurian world from the beginning of the Holy Grail at Christ's crucifixion to the death of the kingdom and its king. In this study, one of the first to treat the Cycle's five texts as a unified work, Miranda Griffin explores notions of chronology and causality within the Cycle, as the text seeks to explain the origins of Arthurian characters, objects and ...
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Medieval Quest for Arthur
by Robert Rouse & Cory Rushton
The medieval interest in saintly relics is well known, but there are also medieval stories and shrines associated with the relics of BritainÆs Arthurian past.
In this original look at the world of Arthur, the authors show how the people of medieval England engaged with the Arthurian legend. Individual chapters cover Winchester as the site of Camelot, the crown of Arthur presented by Edward I, the various items associated with Dover, ...
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Merlin and Wales: A Magician's Landscape
by Michael Dames
Although King Arthur and Merlin go hand in hand, this study brings Merlin to centre stage, as Michael Dames explores the many elusive traces of this `mercurial figure' across western Britain. Merlin is a figure of myth and legend, accorded demi-god status ...
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King Arthur's Round Table
by Martin Biddle
In 1976 the great wooden Round Table was temporarily removed from the wall of Winchester Castle's Great Hall providing historians and scientists, assembled by Martin Biddle, with an opportunity to make a thorough examination of it. Biddle and seventeen contributors discuss the chivalric context of the table and the reasons for its setting in one of the finest medieval halls of medieval England, its age and date, c.1290, the inscriptions and ...
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King Arthur
by Rodney Castelden
In this reconstruction of Dark Age Britain, Castelden argues that Arthur did exist and that there is some historical truth in many of the romantic tales surrounding him. With new and controversial interpretations and theories that look again at the evidence for Camelot, Avalon, Merlin and so forth, Castelden seeks to unravel the mystery of Arthur. 264p, illus, 46 b/w figs, 23 b/w pls (Routledge 1999)
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On Arthurian Women: Essays in Memory of Maureen Fries
edited by Bonnie Wheeler and Fiona Tolurst
A collection of critical essays on female characters in Arthurian literature and biographical essays on women Arthurian scholars. Edited by Bonnie Wheeler and Fiona Tolhurst, literary inheritors of the feminist Arthurian legacy, these essays pay tribute ...
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