Arthurianism in Early Plantagenet England
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First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.
The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at the heart of King Arthur''s appeal in the Middle Ages. Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century: monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less rem...
The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at the heart of King Arthur''s appeal in the Middle Ages. Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century: monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less rem...
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First full-scale account of the use of the Arthurian legend in the long twelfth century.
The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at the heart of King Arthur''s appeal in the Middle Ages. Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century: monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less rem...
The precedent of empire and the promise of return lay at the heart of King Arthur''s appeal in the Middle Ages. Both ideas found fullness of expression in the twelfth century: monarchs and magnates sought to recreate an Arthurian golden age that was as wondrous as the biblical and classical worlds, but less rem...
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