Geoffrey Ashe

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Introduction Mention King Arthur, and the name conjures up a romantic image. The image is richly complex, comprising not merely a single character but a group, and a constellation of themes. Beside the King stand his Queen, Guinevere, and his enchanter, Merlin. Their home is Camelot, the royal...

The dream of Arthur, as a quasi-historical king, is the creation of one writer. Geoffrey of 3 pnlrlpn app Monmouth was a cleric, of Welsh or possibly Breton descent. Little is "°known about him beyond the fact that he was teaching at Oxford betweenThe Story 1129 and 1151. Towards 1138 he produced...