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Arthurian Legends

Rosalind Kerven
Arthurian Legends Book PDF

Author : Rosalind Kerven
Publisher : Batsford Books
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781849946186

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Arthurian Legends by Rosalind Kerven Pdf

The definitive book of stories from Arthurian legend. Delve into the enchanted world of Arthurian legends where you will meet the Knights of the Round Table, Wizard Merlin, King Arthur and Queen Guinevere. With plots full of romance, adventure and enchantment, these fascinating ancient tales have been revived by the author to reflect their origins in oral history and will appeal to a whole new generation of readers. Stories include Elaine Who Loved Sir Lancelot, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, Tristan and Isolde and The Enchantment of Merlin, many of which have recently been adapted in modern cinema and remain a fascination within contemporary culture. The book also features detailed notes on each story and mentions specific places in Britain with Arthurian links, including properties such as Tintagel. Beautifully illustrated with images inspired by Arthurian legend by Arthur Rackham and others.

The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends

Mike Ashley
The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends Book PDF

Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Hachette UK
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781472114914

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The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends by Mike Ashley Pdf

The Mammoth Book of Arthurian Legends brings together many of the traditional stories about King Arthur along with several new interpretations of the legend to provide a complete picture of his birth, adventures, romance and fate. it traces Arthur's exploits to gain the sword Excalibur, the conflict with his half sister Morgan, the birth of his bastard son Mordred, and the shadowy influence and fate of Merlin. The collection also follows the adventures of many of Arthur's knights including Sir Balin, Sir Percival, Sir Gawain, Sir Lanval, Sir Marrock, Sir John, Sir Tristan and of course, Sir Lancelot. This culminates in the mighty Quest for the Holy Grail, the breakup of the Round Table, and finally the usurping of the throne by Mordred and the death of Arthur at Camlann. It even looks beyond the death of Arthur, Guinevere and Lancelot to a ghostly finale of love immortal. Stories included are: The Winning of a Sword by Howard Pyle The Treason of Morgan le Fay by George Cox The Knight with Two Swords by John Steinbeck Sir Percival of Wales by Roger Lancelyn Green The Romance of Tristan and Iseult by Hillaire Belloc The Quest for the Holy Grail by Andrew Lang Guinevere and Lancelot by Andrew machen The Lady of Belec by Phyllis Anne Karr The Quiet Monk by Jane Yolen

The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend

Elizabeth Archibald,Ad Putter
The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend Book PDF

Author : Elizabeth Archibald,Ad Putter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2009-09-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780521860598

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The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend by Elizabeth Archibald,Ad Putter Pdf

Covers the evolution of the legend over time and analyses the major themes that have emerged.

The Arthur of the Germans

Anonim
The Arthur of the Germans Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786837370

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The Arthur of the Germans by Anonim Pdf

From the twelfth century onwards the legends of King Arthur and his knights, including the Tristan legend, spread across Europe, producing a vast range of adaptations and new stories. German and Dutch literature were of central importance in this expansion of Arthurian material from the 12th to 16th century. This title deals with this topic.

The Once and Future King

T. H. White
The Once and Future King Book PDF

Author : T. H. White
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2022-08-16
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547194712

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The Once and Future King by T. H. White Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Arthurian Legend in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries

Susan Austin
Arthurian Legend in the Twentieth and Twenty first Centuries Book PDF

Author : Susan Austin
Publisher : Vernon Press
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2022-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781648893315

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Arthurian Legend in the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries by Susan Austin Pdf

The King Arthur we imagine did not exist in history. He is the result of stories told and retold, changed and added to by storytellers for centuries, each making the story reflect the storyteller’s time and values. The chapters in this book look at movies, manga, comic books, a television show, and traditional books released since 1960 to explore some of the ways King Arthur has been reimagined in the past 60 years. Interpreting Avalon High and The Kind Who Would Be King, Camelot 3000 and King Arthur vs. Dracula, Fate/Zero, John Steinbeck’s The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights, the influence of Arthurian legend on Harry Potter, Terry Gilliam’s The Fisher King, John Boorman’s Excalibur, Jerry Zucker’s First Knight, Antoine Fuqua’s King Arthur, Guy Ritchie’s King Arthur: The Legend of the Sword, Matthew Vaughn’s Kingsman: The Secret Service, Iris Murdoch’s The Time of the Angels, and the BBC series Merlin, the authors find that while we are still interested in the idea of King Arthur, we may also want his story to be more racially and gender inclusive, less elitist, and in some cases, more secular.

The Arthur of the Italians

Anonim
The Arthur of the Italians Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783161584

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The Arthur of the Italians by Anonim Pdf

This is the first comprehensive book on the Arthurian legend in medieval and Renaissance Italy since Edmund Gardner’s 1930 The Arthurian Legend in Italian Literature. Arthurian material reached all levels of Italian society, from princely courts with their luxury books and frescoed palaces, to the merchant classes and even popular audiences in the piazza, which enjoyed shorter retellings in verse and prose. Unique assemblages emerge on Italian soil, such as the Compilation of Rustichello da Pisa or the innovative Tavola Ritonda, in versions made for both Tuscany and the Po Valley. Chapters examine the transmission of the French romances across Italy; reworkings in various Italian regional dialects; the textual relations of the prose Tristan; narrative structures employed by Italian writers; later ottava rima poetic versions in the new medium of printed books; the Arthurian-themed art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance; and more. The Arthur of the Italians offers a rich corpus of new criticism by scholars who have brought the Italian Arthurian material back into critical conversation.

The Legends of King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone

Tracey Mayhew
The Legends of King Arthur The Sword in the Stone Book PDF

Author : Tracey Mayhew
Publisher : Legends of King Arthur: Merlin
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1782267344

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The Legends of King Arthur: The Sword in the Stone by Tracey Mayhew Pdf

When two boys save an old man from robbers, they learn of a competition in Londinium to decide the next king of Britain. The elder, Kay, is determined to prove himself worthy as a knight or a king. The younger is Arthur, a farm boy through and through - until he sees the sword in the stone.

King Arthur and His Knights

Howard Pyle
King Arthur and His Knights Book PDF

Author : Howard Pyle
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2023-12-14
Category : Fiction
ISBN : EAN:8596547752981

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King Arthur and His Knights by Howard Pyle Pdf

The Story of King Arthur and His Knights consists of a large series of episodes in the legend of the mythological first king of Britain King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table. First part of the book tells how young Arthur pulled a sword out of an anvil, how he learned of his royal lineage, and how he thus became king. Second part tells the stories of Merlin, Sir Pellias, Sir Gawaine and other noble knights.

Reinventing King Arthur

Inga Bryden
Reinventing King Arthur Book PDF

Author : Inga Bryden
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-12-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781351905268

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Reinventing King Arthur by Inga Bryden Pdf

In her systematic reassessment of the remaking of the Arthurian past in nineteenth-century British fiction and non-fiction, Inga Bryden examines the Victorian Arthurian revival as a cultural phenomenon, offering insights into the relationship between social, cultural, religious, and ethnographic debates of the period and a wide range of texts. Throughout, she adopts an intertextual and historical perspective, informed by poststructuralist thinking, to reveal nineteenth-century attitudes towards the past. Starting with a review of the historical evidence available to Victorian writers and an examination of how historians of the time represented Arthur, the author connects Victorian accounts of Arthur's quest to contemporary scientific and historical searches for origins and knowledge, and to his appropriation by competing religious movements. She shows how writers explored the dynamics of heroism by recruiting Arthur and his knights to define codes of chivalric service, and to personify the psychological complexities of love. Finally, the legend of his death and transportation to Avalon is deconstructed and placed in the context of cultural attitudes towards commemorating the dead and theological debates about the afterlife. Inga Bryden engages not only with well-known Arthurian texts by Tennyson, Swinburne, Morris and Rossetti, but with lesser-known works by Bulwer-Lytton, Robert Stephen Hawker, Sebastian Evans, Diana Maria Mulock, Christiana Douglas and Joseph Shorthouse.

The Arthurian Legends

Richard Barber
The Arthurian Legends Book PDF

Author : Richard Barber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 085115252X

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The Arthurian Legends by Richard Barber Pdf

For more then eight centuries, poets and writers have been telling stories about King Arthur. From lost legends and scraps of history, from facts and folklore, has been fashioned one of the greatest epics in all literature, full of the world's splendours, heroic loves and spiritual quests. This anthology is a celebration of the magical and mysterious world founded on the figure of an obscure Welsh princeling, of Arthur's exploits in literature, of his far-famed knights and their ladies, of all the high trappings of romance.Here for the first time is a single volume which gives the reader an idea of the power and range of Arthurian literature from its beginnings to the present day. All the great Arthurian writers are represented, from France, Germany and England, and the text is complemented by a superb selection of full colour illustrations.

The Arthur of the Welsh

Anonim
The Arthur of the Welsh Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2020-10-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781786837349

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The Arthur of the Welsh by Anonim Pdf

Little, if anything, is known historically of Arthur, yet for centuries the romances of Arthur and his court dominated the imaginative literature of Europe in many languages. The roots of this vast flowering of the Arthurian legend are to be found in early Welsh tradition, and this volume gives an account of the Arthurian literature produced in Wales, in both Welsh and Latin, during the Middle Ages. The distinguished contributors offer a comprehensive view of recent scholarship relating to Arthurian literature in early Welsh and other Brythonic sources. The volume includes chapters on the 'historical' Arthur, Arthur in early Welsh verse, the legend of Merlin, the tales of Culhwch ac Olwen, Geraint, Owain, Peredur, The Dream of Rhonabwy and Trystan ac Esyllt. Other chapters investigate the evidence for the growth of the Arthurian theme in the Triads and in the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth, and discuss the Breton connection and the gradual transmission of the legend to the non-Celtic world. The volume, which is unique in offering a comprehensive discussion of the subject, will appeal widely to medievalists, to Welsh and Celtic scholars, and to those non-specialists who have felt the fascination of the figure of Arthur and wish to know more.

King Arthur

Tony Sullivan
King Arthur Book PDF

Author : Tony Sullivan
Publisher : Pen and Sword History
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2020-04-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781526763686

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King Arthur by Tony Sullivan Pdf

An investigation of the evidence for King Arthur based on the earliest written sources rather than later myths and legends. This book differs from the usual Arthur theories in that it favors no particular conjecture simply analyses and clarifies the evidence presenting it all in chronological order. Starting from Roman Britain, the evidence shows how the legend evolved and at what point concepts such as Camelot, Excalibur and Merlin were added. It covers the historical records from the end of Roman Britain using contemporary sources such as they are, from 400-800, including Gallic Chronicles, Gildas and Bede. It details the first written reference to Arthur in the Historia Brittonum c.800 and the later Annales Cambriae in the tenth century showing the evolution of the legend in later Welsh and French stories. While not starting from or aiming at a specific person, the book compares the possibility of Arthur being purely fictional with a historical figure alongside a list of possible suspects. The evidence is presented and the reader is invited to make up their own mind before a discussion of the author’s own assessment. “What impressed me about this book is Sullivan’s passion for this subject and his willingness to go the extra mile to show both sides of the argument . . . It was extremely fascinating to see how he treated this book like a criminal investigation, using different fields of study to figure out the origins of the legend, how it evolved, and whether or not there was a king named Arthur.” —Adventures of a Tudor Nerd

The Arthur of the Iberians

David Hook
The Arthur of the Iberians Book PDF

Author : David Hook
Publisher : University of Wales Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781783162420

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The Arthur of the Iberians by David Hook Pdf

This book fills the Iberian linguistic and geographical gap in Arthurian studies, replacing the now-outdated work by William J. Entwistle (1925). It covers Arthurian material in all the major Peninsular Romance languages (Spanish, Portuguese, Catalan, Galician); it follows the spread of Arthurian material overseas with the seaborne expansion of Spain and Portugal from Iberia into America and Asia in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries; and, as well as examining the specifically Arthurian texts themselves, it traces the continued influence of the medieval Arthurian material and its impact on the society, literature and culture of the Golden Age and beyond, including its presence in Don Quixote, the influential Spanish Arthurian-inspired romance Amadís de Gaula, and in Spanish ballads. Such was its influence that we find an indigenous American woman called ‘Iseo’ (Iseult); and an Arthurian story appeared in an indigenous language of the Philippines, Tagalog, as late as the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend

Alan Lupack
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend Book PDF

Author : Alan Lupack
Publisher : Oxford Quick Reference
Page : 514 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2007-04-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : UCSC:32106017051050

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The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend by Alan Lupack Pdf

The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend offers a comprehensive survey of the Arthurian legends in all their manifestations, from the earliest medieval texts to their appearances in contemporary culture. Essential reading for Arthurian scholars, medievalists, and for those interested in myth and legend.