![]() ![]() Ashe decided to examine a part of the legend that has seldom been regarded as central: the story that Arthur took an army to Burgundy in a campaign involving a Roman emperor. That identification, however, rests on some highly worthwhile thinking. ![]() The first two are fairly well-trodden ground, and Ashe tends to rather grand generalizations and summaries when not grappling with the specific details he needs to corroborate his identification. Ashe, author of several British-published books about the light shed on Arthurian legend by recent developments in pre-Saxon archaeology, provides a) a general popular survey of the major texts bearing or possibly bearing on Arthur (from Gildas, Nennius, and Geoffrey of Monmouth to chroniclers of the Frankish, Gothic, and Saxon migrations) b) a brief account of the survival of quasi-Roman values in the post-Roman West and c) a claim to have identified a historical original of the legendary Arthur. ![]()
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