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Music featured from Strobotone (“Medieval Theme 02”), courtesy of the Free Music Archive. Have suggestions for projects you’d like us to catch up on, or writers you want to hear from? Send us a note: podcast theamericanscholar org. It was the Age of Arthur This is the fourth-part of our discussion of Britain in the so-called Age Unique among the territories of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, Britain succeeded in holding back and even reversing the tide of Germanic conquest for nearly two centuries. Hosted by Stephanie Bastek.ĭownload the audio here (right click to “save link as …”)

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A good one from the Arthur extended universe: The Green Knight.

The boy king is no stranger to television, but “good adaptations of the King Arthur myth to screen are far out-numbered by the unsuccessful ones”.

Even the BBC wants to know: King Arthur and Camelot-Why the cultural fascination?.

Reacquaint yourself with the magic of Mary Stewart’s Merlin Trilogy Age of Arthur is our pen and paper roleplaying game set in Britannia, two generations after the withdrawal of the Roman Empire.

Sword Stone Table: Old Legends, New Voices, edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington.

Krishna and Northington join the podcast to talk about the Arthurs, Merlins, Guineveres, Lancelots, Morgans, and more who populate the once and future land of our imagination. That’s the title of a new collection of Arthurian retellings, edited by Swapna Krishna and Jenn Northington, that imagines the legends of yore in a London coffee shop, a dystopian Mexico City, Anishinaabe country, and even on Mars. If you were to distill the story of King Arthur and the Knights of Camelot down to its essence, you might find on three nouns: Sword Stone Table. Wyeth illustration from The Boy’s King Arthur: “And when they came to the sword that the hand held, King Arthur took it up.” (Wikimedia Commons)

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