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King Arthur : myth-making and history

Author: N J Higham
Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge, 2002.
Edition/Format:   Book : Biography : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Named Person: Arthur, King.; Arthur, King; Artus.
Material Type: Biography
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: N J Higham
ISBN: 0415213053 9780415213059 9780203994023 0203994027
OCLC Number: 48550961
Description: xi, 303 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.
Contents: A King out of Time: Arthur in the twentieth century --
Arthur comes of age --
Arthur in the spotlight --
The Genesis of Arthur --
Being 'British': The political and ideological context --
Alternative ideologues and British authority --
Prototype Arthurs --
Bears and gods --
Contested Histories: Anglo-Saxons and Britons c. 730-830 --
Bede and the Britons --
Welsh-Mercian interactions --
Reclaiming the past: Writing British history in the early ninth century --
The Historia Brittonum: Authorship and purpose --
Britons, Trojans and Romans --
Vortigern and the adventus Saxonum --
St Patrick and Arthur --
Arthur and the Old Testament --
Arthur's battles --
The image of Arthur --
The English historical framework --
The Pillar of Eliseg --
Text in Context: The Annales Cambriae c. 954 --
England, Wales and the Vikings --
Heroic poetry --
Y Gododdin --
Asser --
The Armes Prydein --
The Annales Cambriae --
The Rise and Fall of the 'Historical' Arthur --
The Arthurian legend to c. 1100 --
Arthur as cultural icon --
Arthur as royal cult --
Arthur in question --
The fall of King Arthur --
Postscript: The Rhetorical Arthur.
Responsibility: N.J. Higham.
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