The Metrical Romances, including the
Arthurian Cycle.
So to the Welsh must be given the honor of having sown a seed from which has grown the wide-spreading tree we call the
Arthurian Legend.
Author Gerald Morris provides a modern interpretation of the
Arthurian legends, including an affectionate nod to Malory's Le Morte D'Arthur in his author's note at the conclusion.
In the Mirror, the realism that the humanism of Guicciardini and Machiavelli and Thomas More had advocated as proper ways to read history enters a dialectical relationship with metaphor, character, and, if not the world of allegory and
Arthurian magic, a space where language evokes its own kind of transcendence and "still point of the turning world." This was the double-edged realism of language the poet Earl of Surrey, Thomas Sackville's beloved master, had wanted for representations of history in his invention of blank verse.
This time around it's the animated take on the
Arthurian legend with Merlin teaching the young Arthur about life, love and bravery.
Notes are by Jeremy Duquesnay Adams, considering as an analogue for the figure of Arthur the addressee of a letter of Sidonius Apollinaris, Riothamus; Ann Dooley, on the earliest known reference to Arthur in Irish literature; James Carmi Parsons, linking Edward I's translation of the putative
Arthurian remains at Glastonbury to the increasingly important role played by royal funerary ceremonial in legitimizing succession; and Michelle Brown and James Carley, presenting a version and continuation of the
Arthurian epitaph on the Glastonbury tomb in a fifteenth-century manuscript owned by John Shirley as evidence of interest in the
Arthurian story in the milieu of Caxton's readers.
The character of Merlin in
Arthurian literature represents at several removes a figure from druidic tradition.
(OF, Escalibor ) The sword of King Arthur in
Arthurian romance.
The deal, orchestrated by
Arthurian Life Sciences which manages the fund for the Welsh Government on a discretionary basis and is chaired by life sciences serial investor and entrepreneur Sir Chris Evans, will see Interrad locating at the Life Sciences Hub Wales in Cardiff Bay - where it will have a base for sales, marketing, distribution and training.
Speaking at the BioWales 2013 conference in Cardiff the minister said the fund, which is being supported with PS50m from the Welsh Government with additional private sector investment envisaged to take the fund to at least PS100m, is to be managed by new firm
Arthurian Life Sciences and chaired by biotech entrepreneur Sir Chris Evans.
Martin's penetrating look at Malory brings a new dimension to the
Arthurian story.
It is always a risky undertaking to argue for close connections between a particular medieval version of the
Arthurian legend and the society in which it was produced.
Arthurian - of or relating to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table