Description
How did a warrior chieftain in 550 AD come to the throne of a romantic kingdom six hundred years later? Follow the stuff of legends from the fact of Arthur as a warrior chieftain to the fiction of Arthur as king of Camelot—the epitome of wisdom, virtue, tolerance and chivalry. Why did James 1’s ancestry have to be imaginatively traced back to this fictional Arthur—to convince people of his worthiness to rule? Why did Edward III found his Order of the Garter in 1350–attempting to recreate the fellowship of the fictional Round Table? And more significantly, why is Arthur still interwoven into our psyche 1600 years later?
