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10 best books like The Arthurian Encyclopedia (Norris J. Lacy): The History of the Kings of Britain, The Death of King Arthur, Lancelot of the Lake, King Arthur, Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I, The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends, The Arthurian Legends, The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere, New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology, Worlds of Arthur

The History of the Kings of Britain
AuthorGeoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN0140441700
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous...
The Death of King Arthur
AuthorUnknown
Recounting the final days of Arthur, this thirteenth-century French version of the Camelot legend, written by an unknown author, is set in a world of fading chivalric glory. It depicts the Round Table diminished in strength after the Quest for the Holy Grail, and with its integrity threatened by the...
Lancelot of the Lake
AuthorAnonymous
ISBN0192837931
Written in the early thirteenth century and universally considered a major work of European literature, Lancelot greatly influenced Malory, Tennyson, T.H. White and others. This edition presents, for the first time in English translation, the original, short version, which tells of Lancelot's...
King Arthur
AuthorNorma Lorre Goodrich
ISBN0060971827
Norma Lorre Goodrich’s main pursuit in “King Arthur” is to uphold the historicity of Arthur the man, as well as to identify the true localities of his kingdom. Traditionally, Arthur’s seat has been placed in southern England, but Goodrich builds an extremely compelling case for putting Arthur’s...
Le Morte D'Arthur - Volume I
AuthorThomas Malory
ISBN1401307809
Le Morte d'Arthur (originally spelled Le Morte Darthur, Middle French for "the death of Arthur"[1]) is a reworking of existing tales by Sir Thomas Malory about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin, and the Knights of the Round Table. Malory interprets existing French and English...
The Illustrated Encyclopaedia of Arthurian Legends
AuthorRonan Coghlan
ISBN1566198763
Often plundered and even plagiarised – frequently online and most notably in print by Mike Dixon-Kennedy in his Arthurian Myth and Legend: an A-Z of People and Places (1996) – this was the first really accessible dictionary of Arthurian personages, locales and other miscellanea. While not an...
The Arthurian Legends
AuthorRichard Barber
ISBN0851151108
This book I got many years ago from Quarwood of all places. It's one of the books I own from John Entwistle's personal library, and it is an exceptionally beautiful book. It is worth five stars for the pictures alone, but the accompanying text makes it all even better.

The book is a broad survey...
The Idylls of the Queen: A Tale of Queen Guenevere
AuthorPhyllis Ann Karr
ISBN1587150123
In The Idylls of the Queen, Phyllis Ann Karr takes an incident (the murder of Sir Patrise) from Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur and creates an intelligent, complex, and fascinating mystery novel perfect for fans of historical mysteries, of British legends, and of fantasy.

Queen Guenevere...
New Larousse Encyclopedia of Mythology
AuthorFélix Guirand
ISBN0517004046
Here, in all their wonder and splendor, are the Mythologies of Mankind.. from pre-biblical Egypt and pre-Homeric Greece to the farthest researches of Africa, the Orient, the Pacific and the Americas.. all gathered into one mammoth volume of unprecedented scope and beauty, and illustrated with an...
Worlds of Arthur
AuthorGuy Halsall
King Arthur is probably the most famous and certainly the most legendary medieval king. From the early ninth century through the middle ages, to the Arthurian romances of Victorian times, the tales of this legendary figure have blossomed and multiplied. And in more recent times, there has been a continuous...
The Mammoth Book of King Arthur
AuthorMike Ashley
ISBN0786715669
In this truly mammoth guide, Mike Ashley analyzes and explicates the line between the real Arthurian world and the legends that surround it. Ashley gives us a firm identity not only for King Arthur, but also for Merlin, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table—as well as identifying...
Arthur's Britain
AuthorLeslie Alcock
ISBN0141390697
We are all familiar with the heroic deeds and enchantments of the legendary tales surrounding King Arthur. But what evidence is there for a real figure beneath the myth and romance?

Arthur's Britain assembles a wealth of information about the history of Arthur by delving into the shadowy period...
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend
AuthorAlan Lupack
The Oxford Guide to Arthurian Literature and Legend is both a critical history of the Arthurian tradition and a reference guide to Arthurian works, names, characters, symbols, and places. Seven essays offer a comprehensive survey of the legends in all of their manifestations, from their origins...
Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend
AuthorMiranda Aldhouse-Green
ISBN0500279756
Warlike, exuberant and superstitious, the ancient Celts saw divinities in every facet of life and nature, venerating deities of the sun, thunder, water, war, healing, hunting, fertility and death. They possessed a complicated array of concepts and rituals, a powerful priesthood - the Druids - and...
Dictionary of Celtic Mythology
AuthorJames MacKillop
ISBN0192801201
This new work offers an exhaustive survey of one of the world's most fertile and exciting mythological traditions. It covers the persons, themes, concepts, places, and creatures of Celtic mythology, in all its ancient and modern traditions, in 4000 entries ranging from brief definitions to extended...
The Quest for Merlin
AuthorNikolai Tolstoy
ISBN0316850802
Nikolai Tolstoy, a distant relative to Count Leo and latterly a parliamentary representative for the deluded United Kingdom Independence Party, confesses to being hooked on Arthurian legend for as long as he can remember.

The twin fruits of his obsession were his novel, The Coming of the...
The Discovery of King Arthur
AuthorGeoffrey Ashe
ISBN0905649699
Myths, legends & literary mysteries mix with maps, relics & historical facts in "The Discovery of King Arthur." Scholars, students & general readers of all ages have wondered for centuries about whether Britain was ever really ruled by an Arthur who held court at a place called Camelot....
Medieval Folklore: A Guide to Myths, Legends, Tales, Beliefs, and Customs
AuthorCarl Lindahl
ISBN0195147723
Over a decade in the making, Medieval Folklore offers a wide-ranging guide to the lore of the Middle Ages--from the mundane to the supernatural. Definitive and lively articles focus on the great tales and traditions of the age and includes information on daily and nightly customs and activities; religious...
The Romance of Arthur: An Anthology of Medieval Texts in Translation
AuthorJames J. Wilhelm
ISBN0815315112
Since their first appearance, the three volumes of "The Romance of Arthur" have become the standard anthologies of Arthurian literature. Now, combined into a single convenient volume, the New, Expanded Edition of "The Romance of Arthur" covers nearly a thousand years of translated texts in a broad...
قاموس أساطير العالم
AuthorArthur Cotterell
ISBN9789334074
أصل الأسطورة:
إن الاهتمام الحديث بالأسطورة بشكل اعترافاً عاماً بقوة هذه القصص الشعرية، ولكن لازال هناك عدم اتفاق على مدى قوة الأسطورة فأفلاطون مثلاً...
The Story Of Medieval England from King Arthur To The Tudor Conquest
AuthorJennifer Paxton
ISBN1598037072
The Story of Medieval England: From King Arthur to the Tudor Conquest tells the remarkable story of a tumultuous thousand-year period. Dominated by war, conquest, and the struggle to balance the stability brought by royal power with the rights of the governed, it was a period that put into place the...
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