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Evidence of Arthur Flint F. Johnson

Evidence of Arthur By Flint F. Johnson

Evidence of Arthur by Flint F. Johnson


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Making use of the methodology developed in his Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland, 2012), the author explores the question of King Arthur's existence in several original approaches to the subject. Examining the extant literature and other evidence, the author searches for the truth of the who, when and where of King Arthur.

Evidence of Arthur Summary

Evidence of Arthur: Fixing the Legendary King in Factual Place and Time by Flint F. Johnson

Making use of the methodology developed in his Origins of Arthurian Romances (McFarland, 2012), the author explores the question of King Arthur's existence in several original approaches to the subject. Examining the extant literature and other evidence, the author searches for the truth of the who, when and where of King Arthur. These explorations are grouped into historicity, geography, and floruit, concluding that Arthur was an historical entity, places him in a specific area, and narrows his period of activity.

About Flint F. Johnson

Flint F. Johnson lives in Centennial, Colorado.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Source Abbreviations
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part One : Historicity
1.The Historicity of Arthur: The Evidence in Traditional Form
2.The British Arthur: An Elusive Hero
3.The Heroic Age Phenomenon
4.Fionn macCumhail and Arthur
5.Arthur and the Superbus Tyrannus
6.Drutwas
7.The Bards of the Fifth, Sixth and Early Seventh Centuries
8.Conclusion: The Historicity of Arthur
Part Two : Geography
9.Introduction to a Study of Arthurs Geography
10.The Geographical Influence of Geoffrey of Monmouth
11.Arthur, the Vitae and Glastonbury Abbey
12.Arthurs Geography in the Pre-Galfridic Tradition
13.Arthurs Men in the Early Welsh Sources
14.Culhwch ac Olwen and the Location of Arthur
15.Arthur in the Romances
16.Carlisle-Camelot: A New Option
17.The Location of Arthur
Part Three : Floruit
18.The Chronological Tradition
19.The Romanitas of Arthurs Era
20.Bardic Chronology
21.Caradoc of Llancarfan
22.Gildasian Chronology
23.Arthurs Expanding Orbit
24.Rough Archaeological Dates for Arthur
25.The Development of the Historical Horizon
Conclusion
Appendices
A: The Location of Gildas
B: The Transformation of Praise Poetry into Medieval Romances
C: Origins of All Proper Nouns in Culhwch ac Olwen
D: The Dating of Badon
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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GOR013952022
9780786476817
0786476818
Evidence of Arthur: Fixing the Legendary King in Factual Place and Time by Flint F. Johnson
Used - Very Good
Paperback
McFarland & Co Inc
2014-02-28
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