King of the Celts: Arthurian Legends and Celtic Tradition

In a masterful blend of history, geography, and literature, Jean Markale re-creates the true King Arthur, the real-life Celtic warrior-hero who organized the resistance to the Saxon onslaught in fifth-century England. Markale's unsurpassed knowledge of Celtic history has enabled him to reconstruct for us the actual world in which King Arthur lived — its heros, its values, and its vicissitudes — and to define the position that Arthur occupied within it.

• Explains how the Arthurian ideals of knightly virtue and chivalry are at the heart of Western literature and thought

• Shows how the Celtic heritage continues to exert a unique formative power on our personal and moral concepts

• Author
• Jean Markale

• Format
• paperback

• Pages
• 320

• Publisher
• Inner Traditions

• Language
• english

• ISBN
• 9780892814527

• Genres
• arthurian, history, mythology

• Release date
• 1993