King Arthur and His Importance in the Medieval Celtic World

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Who was King Arthur, and what was his importance in the medieval Celtic world? While it is possible we may never know the complete answer to either of those questions, according to Thomas Green we can come pretty close to answering the second one. After reading Green’s “The Historicity and Historicisation of Arthur”, the Arthurian sources discussed in the article seem to conclude that a historical personage of Arthur is very unlikely. If pre-Galfridian material, such as the Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae, are read in context as Green argues they should be, and are not methodologically exhausted by looking for evidence, then it is possible for the reader of these texts to truly get a sense as to what Arthur meant to the writers of the time period when the Historia Brittonum and the Annales Cambriae are written. Readers can also discover that the Celtic people of the time were not much different from the people of our time period. While almost every woman, man and child in almost every country on Earth today have heard of Superman or Batman by way of movies and literatur...

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