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Ronald Hutton 24 dated back to the tenth century in its present form; now Rachel Bromwich and Simon Evans have demonstrated that it was written round about 1100, and that details were probably added to it even later. In that sense, it hardly belongs to the world of the ‘early Arthur’ at all. Kenneth Jackson had already
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Dec 21, 2023 · How do you approach the role of historical advisor on a TV series set in Arthurian Britain, when evidence of what happened is somewhere between scarce and non-existent? Professor Ronald Hutton tells us about his work on the new ITVX Arthurian drama The Winter King – and about life and death in fifth-century England
May 25, 2024 · By the 19th century, Arthur had become a symbol of idealized medieval kingship and British national identity. So to search for the real Arthur, we must look past the romantic trappings to the earliest sources.
Ronald Hutton shows how historians' perceptions of the legendary figure have changed over recent times. Forty years ago both scholarly histories and historical novels had a common view of Arthur: as a historical warrior, whose leadership enabled his people, the native inhabitants of post-Roman Britain, to halt the advancing tide of Anglo-Saxon ...
Mar 28, 2010 · For anybody concerned with the origins of the Arthurian legend, one literary work should represent the point of embarkation: the Historia Brittonum or History of the British. It is both the earliest clearly dated text to refer to Arthur, and the one upon which most efforts to locate and identify a historical figure behind the name have been based.
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Hutton, RE 2009, The Early Arthur: History and Myth. in E Archibald & A Putter (eds), The Cambridge Companion to the Arthurian Legend. Cambridge University Press, pp. 21 - 35.
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Dec 21, 2023 · How historically accurate is The Winter King's King Arthur? In The Winter King it is not King Arthur, just Arthur. He is Uther Pendragon's bastard son, exiled across the sea, urged home by Merlin as the Saxon threat to his father’s kingdom grows.
