King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia
Dux Bellorum and the Kings of the Britons
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2024
Pen & Sword History (Verlag)
978-1-3990-4868-2 (ISBN)
Pen & Sword History (Verlag)
978-1-3990-4868-2 (ISBN)
_King Arthur and the Battle for Britannia_ is the last in a series of three books. The first, _King Arthur: Man or Myth_, weighed the evidence for and against a historical figure. The second, _The Battles of King Arthur,_ looked in detail at the famous battle list from the Historia Brittonum. Having looked at the questions of whether and where, this final book takes on the different question of who was Arthur? The book is intended to save readers time and money wading through the scores of competing theories. It explains the problems with many of these theories to date, their failure to gain widespread support and why many historians remain sceptical about the existence of a historical Arthur.
There is however a reasonable consistency in medieval genealogies and a good reason why Arthur does not appear in any of the list of kings of early kingdoms. Instead he is placed in the context of a fragmenting post-Roman provincial structure, alongside the emergence of petty kingdoms with new cultural identities. A heroic Brythonic culture in the west and north and a Germanic culture in the east and south.
The book looks at the evolution of the legend comparing the chivalric French Romances with the Arthur of the darker Welsh tradition. A mythical figure may have emerged from the mead halls and war band culture of the sixth century. However the book describes how a historical figure may have been mythologised and who such a warrior may have been.
There is however a reasonable consistency in medieval genealogies and a good reason why Arthur does not appear in any of the list of kings of early kingdoms. Instead he is placed in the context of a fragmenting post-Roman provincial structure, alongside the emergence of petty kingdoms with new cultural identities. A heroic Brythonic culture in the west and north and a Germanic culture in the east and south.
The book looks at the evolution of the legend comparing the chivalric French Romances with the Arthur of the darker Welsh tradition. A mythical figure may have emerged from the mead halls and war band culture of the sixth century. However the book describes how a historical figure may have been mythologised and who such a warrior may have been.
Tony Sullivan lives in South East London with his wife and three children. His first book, _King Arthur: Man or Myth?_ was published in 2020/. Three further books followed in 2022: _The Battles of King Arthur_ investigating the famous battle list from the Historia Brittonum; _The Real Gladiator_, looking at the historical reality behind the 2000 film; and _The Roman King Arthur?: Lucius Artorius Castus_, which dismantles the Artorius-Arthur theory and places this historical Roman officer in the reigns of Severus and Caracalla.
| Erscheinungsdatum | 01.05.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 32 mono illustrations; 32 Illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Barnsley |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 234 mm |
| Themenwelt | Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-3990-4868-6 / 1399048686 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-3990-4868-2 / 9781399048682 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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