THE ARTHURIAN BOOK OF DAYS - CAITLIN AND JOHN MATTHEWS

Autor: CAITLIN AND JOHN MATTHEWS

Editorial: BROCKHAMPTON

Año: 1997

ISBN: 9781860194214

Encuadernación: DURA GRAN FORMATO

Cubierta: Bien

Nota: BIOGRAFIA

LIBRO ESCRITO EN INGLESThis seminal new study explores how and why historians and writers from the Middle Ages to the present day have constructed different accounts of this well-loved figure.N. J Higham offers an in-depth examintaion of the first two Arthurian texts: the History of the Britons and the Welsh Annals . He argues that historians have often been more influenced by what the idea of Arthur means in their present context than by such primary sources King Arthur: Myth-making and History illuminates and discusses ...