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The historical Arthur, if he existed, was a battle-leader of the dark-age (5th-6th century) Britons against the invading Anglo-Saxons. In the Middle Ages, he was a figure of legend, pseudohistory (false history), and romance, and in modern times the hero of countless novels. ‘Then Arthur Fought' is something new: a…
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This is a book like no other. Through a meticulous (and frankly almost miraculous!) work of interpolation, synthesis and extrapolation, H. M. Wiseman navigates the vast quagmire of more or less questionable, contradictory and vague sources (of all sorts, from historical and pseudo-historical chronicles and commentaries to medieval poetry, folk lore and archaeological evidence) to produce a plausible (“non-falsifiable”) quasi-history of the whole Matter of Britain, from the late fourth to the early seventh century. Central to this epic narrative arc is of course Arthur, Dux Bellorum and chieftain of the Britons in their hour of need. The extensive nature…
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