Christopher Gidlow

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  1. 1. The Reign Of Arthur

    From History to Legend

    A revisionist survey that treats Arthur as a probable historical leader of post-Roman Britain, reconstructing the political, military and social landscape of the late fifth and early sixth centuries to separate plausible fact from medieval invention; it re-examines contemporary and near-contemporary sources, archaeology and place-names to argue that the figure behind the legends was a Romano-British warlord who led coalitions against Saxon encroachment and internal rivals, and shows how later chroniclers and storytellers transformed that pragmatic power-broker into the medieval chivalric king of romance.

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