The final book in a series researching if King Arthur is a legitimate
historical figure or a mythologized legend. King Arthur and the Battle
for Britannia is the last in a series of three books. The first, King
Arthur: Man or Myth, weighed the evidence for and against a historical
figure. The second, The Battles of King Arthur, looked in detail at
the famous battle list from the Historia Brittonum. Having looked at
the questions of whether and where, this final book takes on the
different question of who was Arthur? The book is intended to save
readers time and money wading through the scores of competing
theories. It explains the problems with many of these theories to
date, their failure to gain widespread support and why many historians
remain sceptical about the existence of a historical Arthur. There is
however a reasonable consistency in medieval genealogies and a good
reason why Arthur does not appear in any of the list of kings of early
kingdoms. Instead he is placed in the context of a fragmenting
post-Roman provincial structure, alongside the emergence of petty
kingdoms with new cultural identities. A heroic Brythonic culture in
the west and north and a Germanic culture in the east and south. The
book looks at the evolution of the legend comparing the chivalric
French Romances with the Arthur of the darker Welsh tradition. A
mythical figure may have emerged from the mead halls and war band
culture of the sixth century. However the book describes how a
historical figure may have been mythologized and who such a warrior
may have been.
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Dux Bellorum and the Kings of the Britons
Product details
ISBN
9781399048729
Published
2025
Publisher
Open Road Integrated Media, Inc.
Language
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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