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The discovery of King Arthur
- Title
- The discovery of King Arthur / Geoffrey Ashe in association with Debrett's Peerage.
- Author
- Ashe, Geoffrey
- Publication
- Garden City, N.Y. : Anchor Press/Doubleday, 1985.
- ©1985
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | DA152.5.A7 A793 1985 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Debrett's Peerage Limited.
- Description
- xi, 226 pages, 26 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- Ashe offers convincing proof that Arthur not only existed, but was more like the Arthur of legend than historians ever suspected.
- Subjects
- Historiography
- Arthur, King
- To 1500
- Artus
- Arthur
- Arthur, King > Homes and haunts > Great Britain
- Cycles d'Arthur
- Arthurian romances > Sources
- Sources
- History
- Folklore
- Biographies
- Historia regum Britanniae (Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph)
- Great Britain > History > To 1066
- Great Britain > Antiquities, Celtic
- Mythos
- Homes
- Celtic antiquities
- Britons > Kings and rulers > Folklore
- Historiography > Great Britain > History > To 1500
- Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154 > Historia regum Britanniae
- Genre/Form
- Arthurian romances.
- Biographies
- Arthurian romances
- Folklore
- History
- Sources
- Arthurian romances – Sources.
- Cycles d'Arthur.
- Note
- Includes index.
- Bibliography (note)
- Bibliography: p. [211]-215.
- Contents
- A Legend and its roots -- The kingmaker -- The unextinguished light -- Arthur's context -- Arthur -- The Old Welsh trail -- New discoveries -- The wellsprings of romance -- The unfolding myth -- Saints, bards, heroes -- Majesty -- The modern quest.
- ISBN
- 0385190328
- 9780385190329
- LCCN
- 83045168
- OCLC
- ocm10751957
- 10751957
- SCSB-14022053
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library