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Feb 17, 2011 · As we have seen, at times of great change the legend of King Arthur, with its unfaltering moral stability, has always proved popular, and so it proved again in the reign of Queen Victoria.
By positioning the body as an active agent of history, and granting imagination an important part of the historical discourses, nineteenth-century Britain saw the emergence of a prominent quest: locating and retrieving Arthur's body in order to "transmit its moral values to the weakened modern body" (Morris 6).
- Arthur The Legend
- The French Poets
- The German Poets
- The English Poets
- Decline & Revival
Whatever shortcomings Geoffrey may have had as a history writer he makes up for in style, imagination, and dramatic pacing. Geoffrey's Arthur comes alive on the page from his first introduction as a naive youth to a mature king and conqueror of vast realms. Geoffrey makes skilled use of dialogue, setting, characterization, symbol, and most importan...
Geoffrey's work was written in Latin, the literary language of the day, and so needed no translation to be read by literate individuals in other countries. There were many of these who were inspired by Geoffrey's account to produce their own; so many, in fact, that those listed below are only the best-known who added the most famous details. By c. ...
The German poet Wolfram von Eschenbach (c. 1170 - c. 1220 CE) took the motif of the quest and created his epic poem Parzival c. 1200 CE in which the central character proceeds on a journey of self-awareness. Wolfram's poem is taken from Chretien's unfinished work and that of Robert de Boron but the characters are more completely developed on every ...
The Welsh masterpiece, the Mabinogion, is dated to around this time (c. 1200 CE) although the text only exists in copies from the 14th and 15th centuries CE. The Mabinogion is a collection of tales influenced by the poetry of Chretien de Troyes but relies heavily on Celtic lore and mythology. Two of the tales, especially, would lend themselves to t...
Although a bestseller initially, the work fell out of favor during the 16th century CE at the height of the Renaissance. Tales of a medieval English king were no longer fashionable reading as works of classical Greek and Latin writers were again made widely available. The Protestant Reformation of the 15th century CE had opened religious belief to ...
- Joshua J. Mark
Sir Thomas Malory developed the stories of King Arthur, Queen Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table into popular medieval tales; the Celtic revival of the 19th century highlighted the mystical tales and new artistic renderings by Pre-Raphaelite artists like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
In fact, the Arthur of legend was neither a king, nor the owner of a round table, at least not in the way we use these terms today. Records about Arthur's life are few and far...
Nov 7, 2016 · In her systematic reassessment of the remaking of the Arthurian past in nineteenth-century British fiction and non-fiction, Inga Bryden examines the Victorian Arthurian revival as a cultural phenomenon, offering insights into the relationship between social, cultural, religious, and ethnographic debates of the period and a wide range of texts.
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Jul 14, 2015 · This was a time when the true symbolic Arthur was formed. The Arthur who fought with dragons or serpents; the Arthur who married his Guinevere - the Queen of Serpents; the Arthur who would have a shape-shifting father named Uther, another term for Zeus. This was also the time when another character emerged who was also joined with a peculiar ...
