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Tyrants and Traders : Tintagel, Arthur and the Lost Kings.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dark, Ken.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (233 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2026.
- Summary:
- Through the legend of King Arthur and the real-life history of the British Isles, this fascinating account maps the latest archaeological discoveries at Tintagel in Cornwall to bring myth and reality together, offering a strong claim for the historical existence of King Arthur.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Halftitle page
- Series
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- CONTENTS
- ILLUSTRATIONS
- PREFACE AND ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- Introduction
- Who is this book for?
- Introducing the political geography of fourth- to seventh-century Britain
- A few practicalities
- Referencing
- 1 Tintagel: Where History and Legend Meet Archaeology
- Tintagel Haven and the Iron Gate
- Excavation at Tintagel Head, 1845-1960
- The Tintagel incised slates
- Radford's interpretation
- New work and new interpretations
- Re-excavating Site C and Spanish analogies
- Work in the twenty-first century
- New studies of the finds
- Could there have been a pre-Norman monastery at Tintagel after all?
- Tintagel churchyard
- The Tintagel Hinterland Project
- Conclusion
- 2 Gildas and the Tyrants
- Gildas' kings - and perhaps a queen
- Other written sources
- 3 Discovering the Lost Kings
- Searching for other types of royal centres
- Fifth- and sixth-century villa occupation
- Warfare
- Resources and monument building
- Religion, literacy and the British kings
- Royal graves
- 4 The Poetic North
- The fifth and sixth centuries from the River Mersey to Hadrian's Wall
- The British kingdoms north of Hadrian's Wall
- Poems and warriors
- 5 Going Global
- Identity and intention
- What did overseas merchants want?
- The global system of Late Antiquity
- Points of connection
- The Justinianic Plague and the Britons
- 6 Arthur: Myth or History?
- Arthur in Historia Brittonum
- Arthur in the Harleian Chronicle
- The name Arthur
- The 'Northern Arthur' hypothesis
- A credible candidate for King Arthur?
- BIBLIOGRAPHIC ESSAY
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9781350519411
- OCLC:
- 1587893650
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