King Arthur

<p><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>King Arthur: Medieval British Literature and Modern Critical Tradition</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> is a book that revolutionizes our understanding of Britain's history and early literature. It begins with a compelling demonstration of 'King' Arthur as no figure of legend but a flesh-and-blood warrior of the sixth century. Arguments for this are followed by chapters on Arthur in the literatures of medieval Britain as perceived by scholars of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. They include chapters on the Welsh </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mabinogion</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Geoffrey of Monmouth's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>History of the Kings of Britain</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Layamon's </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Brut</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Sir Gawain and the Green Knight</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> the alliterative </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Morte Arthure</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and Sir Thomas Malory's prose </span><em style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Morte Darthure</em><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>. Solving problems which have baffled scholars for centuries this book fundamentally alters our view of Britain's past.</span></p>