Flint F. Johnson

Evidence of Arthur

Fixing the Legendary King in Factual Place and Time

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Produktbeschreibung

Making use of the methodology developed in his Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland, 2012), the author explores the question of King Arthur's existence in several original approaches to the subject. Examining the extant literature and other evidence, the author searches for the truth of the who when and where of King Arthur. These explorations are grouped into historicity, geography and the years in which he flourished. The conclusion is that Arthur was indeed an historical entity and the author places him in a specific area and narrows the time frame of his period of activity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 418g
• ISBN-13: 9780786476817
• ISBN-10: 0786476818
• Artikelnr.: 37744116

Autorenporträt

Flint F. Johnson is an independent scholar whose academic areas of interest include post-Roman British history, Heroic Age Greek and Norse history, and the cultures existing before the first river valley civilizations. He lives in Hudson, Wisconsin.

Inhaltsangabe

Table of Contents Source Abbreviations Preface and Acknowledgments Introduction Part One : Historicity 1.
The Historicity of Arthur: The Evidence in Traditional Form 2.
The British Arthur: An Elusive Hero 3.
The Heroic Age Phenomenon 4.
Fionn macCumhail and Arthur 5.
Arthur and the Superbus Tyrannus 6.
Drutwas 7.
The Bards of the Fifth, Sixth and Early Seventh Centuries 8.
Conclusion: The Historicity of Arthur Part Two : Geography 9.
Introduction to a Study of Arthur's Geography 10.
The Geographical Influence of Geoffrey of Monmouth 11.
Arthur, the Vitae and Glastonbury Abbey 12.
Arthur's Geography in the Pre-Galfridic Tradition 13.
Arthur's Men in the Early Welsh Sources 14.
Culhwch ac Olwen and the Location of Arthur 15.
Arthur in the Romances 16.
Carlisle-Camelot: A New Option 17.
The Location of Arthur Part Three : Floruit 18.
The Chronological Tradition 19.
The Romanitas of Arthur's Era 20.
Bardic Chronology 21.
Caradoc of Llancarfan 22.
Gildasian Chronology 23.
Arthur's Expanding Orbit 24.
Rough Archaeological Dates for Arthur 25.
The Development of the Historical Horizon Conclusion Appendices A: The Location of Gildas B: The Transformation of Praise Poetry into Medieval Romances C: Origins of All Proper Nouns in Culhwch ac Olwen D: The Dating of Badon Notes Bibliography Index