KING ARTHUR OF CAMELOT: The History & The Myth of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (10 Books in One Volume)

Ten Timeless Tales of CamelotBy Thomas Malory, Alfred Tennyson, Maude L. Radford, James Knowles, Richard Morris, T. W. Rolleston, Howard Pyle

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KING ARTHUR OF CAMELOT gathers ten books into a capacious survey of the Arthurian imagination, tracing the movement from chronicle and romance to Victorian poetry, antiquarian inquiry, and richly visual retelling. Its materials range from chivalric adventure and tragic love to genealogical history, mythic interpretation, and children's literature, revealing Camelot as both a medieval inheritance and a continuously remade cultural ideal. The prose romance tradition, the lyrical recasting of Arthurian loss, and the illustrated popular revival stand out as distinct yet mutually illuminating modes. The volume brings together foundational medieval authority with nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century poets, scholars, adaptors, and artists. Thomas Malory's shaping of the English Arthurian narrative provides an essential center, while Alfred Tennyson's poetic reimagining exemplifies the Victorian transformation of legend into moral and national meditation. Maude L. Radford, James Knowles, Richard Morris, T. W. Rolleston, and Howard Pyle extend this inheritance through scholarship, retelling, mythography, and visual storytelling. Collectively, their voices demonstrate how medievalism, Romantic revival, Victorian culture, and popular education repeatedly refashioned the Round Table. Recommended for students and general readers alike, this anthology offers an exceptional opportunity to compare sources, interpretations, and styles within one volume. It rewards close reading with a broad education in Arthurian tradition and invites dialogue between history, myth, literature, and art.

Royalty & Courts Magic Mythological World Epic Quest Sword & Sorcery Betrayal Forbidden Love Political Intrigue War & Battle Chosen One Tragic Romance Prophecy Family

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Publish dateMar 6, 2018

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2KING ARTHUR OF CAMELOT: The History & The Myth of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table (10 Books in One Volume)

3King Arthur – An Introduction

4Le Morte d'Arthur

5Preface

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6The Table or Rubrysshe of the Content of Chapters

7Book I

81. How Uther Pendragon sent for the duke of Cornwall and Igraine his wife, and of their departing suddenly again.

92. How Uther Pendragon made war on the duke of Cornwall, and how by the mean of Merlin he lay by the duchess and gat Arthur.

103. Of the birth of King Arthur and of his nurture.

114. Of the death of King Uther Pendragon.

125. How Arthur was chosen king, and of wonders and marvels of a sword taken out of a stone by the said Arthur.

136. How King Arthur pulled out the sword divers times.

147. How King Arthur was crowned, and how he made officers.

158. How King Arthur held in Wales, at a Pentecost, a great feast, and what kings and lords came to his feast.

169. Of the first war that King Arthur had, and how he won the field.

1710. How Merlin counselled King Arthur to send for King Ban and King Bors, and of their counsel taken for the war.

1811. Of a great tourney made by King Arthur and the two kings Ban and Bors, and how they went over the sea.

1912. How eleven kings gathered a great host against King Arthur.

2013. Of a dream of the King with the Hundred Knights.

2114. How the eleven kings with their host fought against Arthur and his host, and many great feats of the war.

2215. Yet of the same battle.

2316. Yet more of the same battle.

2417. Yet more of the same battle, and how it was ended by Merlin.

2518. How King Arthur, King Ban, and King Bors rescued King Leodegrance, and other incidents.

2619. How King Arthur rode to Carlion, and of his dream, and how he saw the questing beast.

2720. How King Pellinore took Arthur’s horse and followed the Questing Beast, and how Merlin met with Arthur.

2821. How Ulfius impeached Queen Igraine, Arthur’s mother, of treason; and how a knight came and desired to have the death of his master revenged.

2922. How Griflet was made knight, and jousted with a knight

3023. How twelve knights came from Rome and asked truage for this land of Arthur, and how Arthur fought with a knight.

3124. How Merlin saved Arthur’s life, and threw an enchantment on King Pellinore and made him to sleep.

3225. How Arthur by the mean of Merlin gat Excalibur his sword of the Lady of the Lake.

3326. How tidings came to Arthur that King Rience had overcome eleven kings, and how he desired Arthur’s beard to trim his mantle.

3427. How all the children were sent for that were born on May-day, and how Mordred was saved.

35Book II

361. Of a damosel which came girt with a sword for to find a man of such virtue to draw it out of the scabbard.

372. How Balin, arrayed like a poor knight, pulled out the sword, which afterward was the cause of his death.

383. How the Lady of the Lake demanded the knight’s head that had won the sword, or the maiden’s head.

394. How Merlin told the adventure of this damosel.

405. How Balin was pursued by Sir Lanceor, knight of Ireland, and how he jousted and slew him.

416. How a damosel, which was love to Lanceor, slew herself for love, and how Balin met with his brother Balan.

427. How a dwarf reproved Balin for the death of Lanceor, and how King Mark of Cornwall found them, and made a tomb over them.

438. How Merlin prophesied that two the best knights of the world should fight there, which were Sir Lancelot and Sir Tristram.

449. How Balin and his brother, by the counsel of Merlin, took King Rience and brought him to King Arthur.

4510. How King Arthur had a battle against Nero and King Lot of Orkney, and how King Lot was deceived by Merlin, and how twelve kings were slain.

4611. Of the interment of twelve kings, and of the prophecy of Merlin, and how Balin should give the dolorous stroke.

4712. How a sorrowful knight came before Arthur, and how Balin fetched him, and how that knight was slain by a knight invisible.

4813. How Balin and the damosel met with a knight which was in likewise slain, and how the damosel bled for the custom of a castle.

4914. How Balin met with that knight named Garlon at a feast, and there he slew him, to have his blood to heal therewith the son of his host.

5015. How Balin fought with King Pellam, and how his sword brake, and how he gat a spear wherewith he smote the dolorous stroke.

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