Finally, I discuss how my own published historical research shaped Arthur's Gallic campaign in my own recently published work of historical fiction.Įste trabajo trata de un episodio histórico que ha pasado casi desapercibido en las publicaciones recientes, sumergido quizá por los muchos otros procesos traumáticos que confi guraron el fi n de la Galia romana.
One of these five, loyalty to Rome, has become common since it first appeared in 1983, largely due to Ashe's book. I also identify, and illustrate by examples, the five motivations imputed to Arthur for embarking on such adventures. I speculate on the socio-historical and other factors that affected authors' decisions to include, or not, a transmarine campaign. Two clear trends emerge regarding transmarine Arthurian military activity: its prominence of has greatly increased over time and The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe (1985) has been quite influential. Here I consider a corpus of 29 works, from 1898 to 2008, that meet my strict criteria for 'Arthurian historical fiction'. 'dark-age') setting follow the medieval traditions (of myth, folklore, chronicle, and romance) by sending Arthur and his warriors beyond the shores of Britain.
Many modern works of Arthurian fiction with an historical (i.e. It therefore seems that Geoffrey may not be quite sincere in the various dedications and addresses that he makes." Waleran’s mother had taken up with another man while her husband was away on a campaign and Guinevere takes advantage of Arthur’s absence to liaise with Mordred. Geoffrey’s expressed unwillingness to go into the issue - in deference to a ‘noble count’– may be a thinly-disguised insult to Waleran of Meulan. And Arthur aborts his mission to Rome, in order to deal with the treacherous behaviour of Mordred, who is living in sin with Guinevere. Both parts of the episode appear to derive from an account of a historical battle between the Visigoth leader, Euric, and the British king named ‘Riotimus’. It notes that later writers show that they perceived it as fiction rather than as fact. The article traces the transformation of history into fiction, in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s story of King Arthur’s attacks on the Romans and his battle against the (Spanish) Giant of Mont-Saint-Michel - by way of information turnaround, discernible confusion and tongue-in-cheek approach. It has been partially updated since its original publication.
A close version was read at the Conference of Celtic Studies, at the University of Sydney, in 1992. Wooding (eds), 'Origins and Revivals: Proceedings of the First Australian Conference of Celtic Studies' (1999). Geraint Evans, Bernard Martin and Jonathan M. "This article was first published in 'Sydney Series in Celtic Studies', Volume 3.
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