The Vitality of the Arthurian Legend: A SymposiumMette Pors Proceedings of the Twelfth International Symposium organised by the Centre for the Study of Vernacular Literature in the Middle Ages held at the Odense University on 16-17 November 1987. |
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... turn him back again into a Germanic , bloody warrior , the romance figure of the flower of chivalry was permanently con- nected with Arthur . Perhaps the death of the romance in the post - medieval period hastened if not the ...
... turn him back again into a Germanic , bloody warrior , the romance figure of the flower of chivalry was permanently con- nected with Arthur . Perhaps the death of the romance in the post - medieval period hastened if not the ...
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... turn of the century came from John Bunyan's Christian in the immensely popular The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 ) , and from Emmanuel in The Holy War ( 1682 ) . Another popular hero who fought the serpent not only as the symbol of the ...
... turn of the century came from John Bunyan's Christian in the immensely popular The Pilgrim's Progress ( 1678 ) , and from Emmanuel in The Holy War ( 1682 ) . Another popular hero who fought the serpent not only as the symbol of the ...
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... turn of the century . - King Arthur fared only marginally better than Merlin when 18th - century chapbook and ballad writers used his name . " Good King Arthur's " pretensions to a noble court and heroic deeds along with most of the ...
... turn of the century . - King Arthur fared only marginally better than Merlin when 18th - century chapbook and ballad writers used his name . " Good King Arthur's " pretensions to a noble court and heroic deeds along with most of the ...
Contents
An Introduction to the Story of Arthur | 13 |
The Historical Origins of the Arthurian Legend | 25 |
Recent Progress | 45 |
Copyright | |
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