http://www.grailcode.com/archives/arthur-in-green%e2%80%99s-history The Holy Grail in history and in modern culture Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:37:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/arthur-in-green%e2%80%99s-history#comment-21372 Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:54:32 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/arthur-in-green%e2%80%99s-history#comment-21372 [...] I said earlier that Arthur doesn’t appear in the obvious places in Green’s Short History of the English People. I should elaborate. Arthur does appear in the index under “Arthur, myths and legends of”—a reference that leads me to page 119, where the Norman Conquest has already happened and we’re talking about the flowering of medieval literature. If you’ve been hanging around in our neighborhood for a while, you can probably guess that Arthur’s name first appears in conjunction with Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose blockbuster History of the Kings of Britain was The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter rolled into one. [...] […] I said earlier that Arthur doesn’t appear in the obvious places in Green’s Short History of the English People. I should elaborate. Arthur does appear in the index under “Arthur, myths and legends of”—a reference that leads me to page 119, where the Norman Conquest has already happened and we’re talking about the flowering of medieval literature. If you’ve been hanging around in our neighborhood for a while, you can probably guess that Arthur’s name first appears in conjunction with Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose blockbuster History of the Kings of Britain was The Da Vinci Code and Harry Potter rolled into one. […]

]]> http://www.grailcode.com/archives/arthur-in-green%e2%80%99s-history#comment-20330 Tue, 05 Jun 2007 10:37:53 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/arthur-in-green%e2%80%99s-history#comment-20330 Fascinating. Thank you for posting. This site is wonderful. Fascinating. Thank you for posting. This site is wonderful.

]]> http://www.grailcode.com/archives/arthur-in-green%e2%80%99s-history#comment-19082 Thu, 31 May 2007 21:37:49 +0000 http://www.grailcode.com/archives/arthur-in-green%e2%80%99s-history#comment-19082 [...] [In these two vary long paragraphs,  J. R. Green gives us a very good account of the end of Roman Britain, up to the arrival of Hengist and Horsa, the traditional leaders of the Saxon invasion, which forms the backdrop for the traditions of Arthur.] [...] […] [In these two vary long paragraphs,  J. R. Green gives us a very good account of the end of Roman Britain, up to the arrival of Hengist and Horsa, the traditional leaders of the Saxon invasion, which forms the backdrop for the traditions of Arthur.] […]

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