The Discovery of King Arthur

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id King Arthur of legendary fame really exist? This question has haunted the popular imagination for centuries. The distinguished scholar Geoffrey Ashe offers convincing proof that Arthur not only existed, but was more like the Arthur of legend than historians ever suspected.
In this exciting historical detective story, Ashe cuts through the myths and traces the legend of King Arthur to its roots in the twelfth-century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth and illustrates how much of Geoffrey's fifth-century history was based on fact. After challenging previous assumptions about where Arthur can be found, Ashe identifies the real King Arthur and provides powerful evidence to support his theory. The sweeping grandeur of a tumultuous era in British and European history is vividly recounted as Ashe describes the origins and development of the Arthurian legend, a legend which even in the twentieth century still holds us firmly in its spell.
"As Ashe eloquently illustrates the... Tovább

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$12.95
id King Arthur of legendary fame really exist? This question has haunted the popular imagination for centuries. The distinguished scholar Geoffrey Ashe offers convincing proof that Arthur not only existed, but was more like the Arthur of legend than historians ever suspected.
In this exciting historical detective story, Ashe cuts through the myths and traces the legend of King Arthur to its roots in the twelfth-century chronicles of Geoffrey of Monmouth and illustrates how much of Geoffrey's fifth-century history was based on fact. After challenging previous assumptions about where Arthur can be found, Ashe identifies the real King Arthur and provides powerful evidence to support his theory. The sweeping grandeur of a tumultuous era in British and European history is vividly recounted as Ashe describes the origins and development of the Arthurian legend, a legend which even in the twentieth century still holds us firmly in its spell.
"As Ashe eloquently illustrates the true importance of Arthur (and Camelot) does not reside in a possible 5th-Century monarch. The power of Arthurus Rex lies in humanity's need to believe in the possibility of such a figure's returning to lead the race into a redemptive golden era. So long as mankind does not vanquish the possibility of that occurrence, the once and future king will always be with us."
—The Los Angeles Times
Geoffrey Ashe, the author of A Guidebook to Arthurian Britain, Avalonian Quest, and The Quest for Arthur's Britain, is a historian and chairman of Debrett s Arthurian committee, which was set up to further this research.
ISBN O-flOSO-OllS-fl 90000
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