King Arthur Myths
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This Paper puts forward the extensive evidence for the locality of King Arthur's final battle at Dunnichen, & his subsequent burial by Inchyra House. The information is presented in a chronicle format.
Bachelor of Arts thesis depicting perpetuation of the Myth of King Arthur, from Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur" (1485), to film adaptations of "Excalibur" (1984) and "Monty Python and the Holy Grail" (1975).
Bu kitap, kesin olarak kim olduğu çözülememiş olan ve hakkında onlarca teori ve senaryo üretilen Kral Arthur ve Merlin'e dair yeni bakış açıları sunmaya çalışmaktadır. Kral Arthur Efsanesi, Excalibur, Camelot ve Yuvarlak Masa Şövalyeleri... more
Presenting the evidence for the Pictish Kingship of the famous Arthur of the Britons, 529-536 AD.
The strong contaminations between Celts and Scythians, which occurred in the past, also attested by the latest archaeological researches and discoveries in Eastern Europe, indicate the possibility of a significant cultural-symbolic... more
Dans mon mémoire de licence, j’analyse le sujet de la conversion dans Le Haut Livre du Graal, roman médiéval anonyme de la charnière des XIIe et XIIIe siècles. Je considère les causes, les conditions et les objectifs de la conversion,... more
This article deals with the use and reception of classical antiquity in Monty Python's film Monty Python and the Holy Grail - more specifically the use and reception of the Odyssey
Long shrouded in Arthurian lore, an island off the coast of Cornwall may have been the remote stronghold of early British kings
Scholars are familiar with the medieval romances concerning "King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table". These tales are usually set in England and Wales, with perhaps a few located in Scotland or France. However one of the tales... more
The Fall of Arthur is an alliterative poem inaugurated by J.R.R. Tolkien in the 1930s, but never concluded, where human pride moves the ranks of history. Moved by chivalric glory, by amorous tension or by the lust for power, King Arthur,... more
Free, romantic, and individualistic, Britain’s self-image in the eighteenth century constructs itself in opposition to the dominant power of a Southern European aesthetics. Offering a fresh understanding of how the British intelligentsia... more
Caliber, Calibre, Calibur : the diameter of a round or cylindrical body (especially : the internal diameter of a hollow cylinder) Ex : Middle English , borrowed ''from'' Middle French; from Latin ex “out of, from” Ex-Calibur :... more
Le forti contaminazioni tra Celti e Sciti, avvenute in passato, attestate anche dalle ultime ricerche e scoperte archeologiche nell’ Est Europeo, indicano la possibilità di una significativa influenza culturale-simbolica tra Celti e... more
The Giant King With A Castle On His Head Is a novel written for both children and adults which also lifts a tip of the historic veil of the ruins in the Spanish interior. The complete work has 282 pages and is available on request.... more
This is the presentation to a paper I gave at the International Medieval Congress on the history of King Arthur in the chapbook tradition.
, and other such prominent Arthurian scholars. And yet, unlike Romero's other work, Knightriders has received very little critical attention-in fact, most Arthurian scholars, it seems, have never seen the film, and those that have are not... more
This short draft paper is an extract from a forthcoming book, to get feedback on the analysis and translation of this difficult stanza. An attempt has been made to find a solution to the Welsh word ymnewais and a dating and a translation... more
Arthur may have been real, or the stories based upon a real person, embellished up through the years, taking on characteristics and features coming from. .. . where? It appears from the collective consciousness tapped into by authors... more
For over a century now scholars have argued about the exact reading of the larger inscription to Lucius Artorius Castus, who has been proposed as the historical King Arthur, which is unclear because of a large break in the stone. In this... more
This chapter explores the way that King Arthur is adapted in very different ways for two limited run comics, Camelot 3000 and Dracula vs. King Arthur. Camelot 3000 (DC Comics, 1983) chronicles Arthur’s destined return and the consequences... more
Thomas Malory’s ‘The Knight of the Cart’ episode is a crucial narrative in the unravelling of Lancelot’s morality. The truth about his infidelity is revealed in an episode that initiates the final roll-out of disaster when Lancelot’s... more
When talking about literature and King Arthur, the premise of the Arthurian legend is vague. The myth of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table might have been real or merely fairy tales. However, historical aspects of a... more
I suggest that Urobuchi's version of Arthur Pendragon - Artoria - represents an idea, one that subverts time-specific motifs and masculinized Arthurian narrative to update these concepts and principles for contemporary audiences. Despite... more
The Anglo-Saxon world possesses an almost mythical ability to create and believe its own chimeras. From the rosy utopia of the American Dream represented in the “melting pot,” to the peculiar historiography of Britain as the “Good and... more
Martin L. West dates the Nostoi and the other stories of this Epic cycle to around the 6th century, during what he proposes to be the same time as the writing of the Odyssey. This makes the story of Medea and her magical life-restoring... more
Op-ed originally published in the Knoxville News Sentinel, June 23, 2016
URL: http://www.knoxnews.com/opinion/columnists/brexit-ideology-goes-back-to-12th-century-35bc03ba-799b-256c-e053-0100007f38b4-384021201.html
URL: http://www.knoxnews.com/opinion/columnists/brexit-ideology-goes-back-to-12th-century-35bc03ba-799b-256c-e053-0100007f38b4-384021201.html