Geoffrey of Monmouth · 1973
A speaker recommends a book written by someone else.
“so that's a thrillingly dramatic moment in the history of the kings of britain by jeffrey of monmouth so jeffrey of monmouth wrote that in the late 1130s it was the british bunkbuster…”
Why: It packaged and presented Arthur as a towering figure of European stature and invented much of the Arthurian legend.
Tom Holland, Host on The Rest Is HistoryKing Arthur: The Mysteries of Merlin (Part 3)
Named without an opinion attached.
“It is not, unlike Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, this is not a sort of a fantasy blockbuster.”
Tom Holland, Host on The Rest Is HistoryKing Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Part 4)
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The True History of Merlin the Magician
Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Discussed together in: King Arthur: The Mysteries of Merlin (Part 3) (The Rest Is History)
Arthur's Britain
Leslie Alcock
Discussed together in: King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Part 4) (The Rest Is History)
From Ritual to Romance
Jesse L. Weston
Discussed together in: King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Part 4) (The Rest Is History)
King Arthur
N. J. Higham
Discussed together in: King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Part 4) (The Rest Is History)
Sword at Sunset
Rosemary Sutcliff
Discussed together in: King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Part 4) (The Rest Is History)
The Age of Arthur
John Morris
Discussed together in: King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Part 4) (The Rest Is History)
The Birth of Britain
Winston S. Churchill
Discussed together in: King Arthur: The Truth Behind the Legend (Part 4) (The Rest Is History)