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Rodney
Castleden.
King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend.
London:
Routledge,
2003.
280pp, illustrated.
Paperback ISBN
0415316553.
Publisher's
recommended price £16.99
Paperback
reissue
(a few copies of the hardback are still available on the
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bargains page).
King
Arthur is
often written off as a medieval fantasy, the dream of those yearning
for
an age of strong, just rulers and a contended kingdom. Those who accept
his existence at all generally discard the stories that surround him.
This
exciting new investigation argues not only that Arthur did exist, as a
Dark Age chieftain, but that many of the romantic tales - of Merlin,
Camelot
and Excalibur - are rooted in truth.
In
his
quest for
the real King Arthur, Rodney Castleden uses up-to-date archaeological
and
documentary evidence to recreate the history and society of Dark Age
Britain
and its kings. He revives the possibility that Tintagel was an
Arthurian
legend, and proposes a radical new theory - that Arthur escaped alive
from
his final battle. A location is even suggested for perhaps the greatest
mystery, the whereabouts of Arthur's grave.
Contents:
1. Who
this Arthur Was: The Once and Future King; Doubts about Arthur's
Existence;
2. The Documents: Constantius' Life of Germanus; Writings on Stones;
Genealogies;
Nennius' Historical Miscellany; Poetry; The Anglo-saxon Chronicle;
Gilda's
Book of Complaint; Geoffrey of Monmouth; 3. The Archaeology: Background
Problems; Strongholds of the North; strongholds of Wales and the
Borders;
Dark Age Dumnonia; Castle Dore and Other Sites; 4. Arthur's Britain: St
Germanus and Vortigern; Ambrosius Aurelianus; Christian Missionaries;
The
Saxons; 5. Arthur: The Man. the King and the Kingdom: The Man; 'The
most
powerful leader of the Britons'; Arthur's Power Base; Arthur as a
Christian
King; 6. Camelot: Colchester, Cadbury and Caerlaverock, Tintagel,
Viroconium,
Killibury, The Hammerer; 7. The Death of Arthur: The last battle;
Arthur's
Disappearance; Avalon; 'The Wonder of the World'. |
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