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The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet - Studies on Arthurian and Other Traditions (Hardcover)
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The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet - Studies on Arthurian and Other Traditions (Hardcover)
Series: Studies in Medieval Literature
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The Historical Arthur and The Gawain Poet: Studies on Arthurian and
Other Traditions delves into the origins of Arthur and reveals the
author of the famous Gawain Manuscript. Its first part contains
evidence for the Arthur of film and legend as a real person, a
Celtic commander (not a king) who fought battles in North Britain
during the terrible volcanic winter of 536-7, before dying a hero's
death in a conflict on Hadrian's Wall. Its second part moves on to
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, an Arthurian poem on magic,
near-death, and near-seduction. Its author has always been unknown,
but Dr. Breeze uses arguments of the US scholar Ann W. Astell to
date the text to 1387 and name the poet as Sir John Stanley (d.
1414), a Cheshire and Lancashire grandee. He can now be recognized
as an artist of genius, comparable to Chaucer himself. What is said
in this book on John Stanley and his circle thus allows the
greatest advance in Arthurian Studies since 1934, when Walter
Oakeshott discovered the Winchester Malory amongst manuscripts of
an English school library.
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