The King Arthur Conspiracy by Simon Andrew Stirling
Most of what we know - or think we know - about King Arthur came from the pen of one Geoffrey of Monmouth in 1137. His account in a History of the Kings of Britain quickly became the accepted version of events. It was, however, extremely wide of the mark. Geoffrey created a myth and allowed the English to imagine that Arthur was one of their own. A hero named Arthur undoubtedly existed, but his legend was stolen. The scam of Arthur's grave and the subsequent myth that Glastonbury was the Isle of Avalon formed a further part of the early Church's conspiracy to reinvent Arthur as an English paragon. So where is Avalon - the island on which Arthur was buried? And who was the original King Arthur? Simon Andrew Stirling draws on a vast range of sources and new translations of early British and Gaelic literature to identify history's true Arthur, and to pinpoint his precise burial location on Avalon.
SIMON ANDREW STIRLING has been a professional writer for twenty years, with credits including science and history programmes for the Open University and episodes of popular TV drama series. He received a Writers’ Guild Award in 1995 for his work on the BBC’s Between the Lines.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780750994163 |
| ISBN 10 | 0750994169 |
| Title | The King Arthur Conspiracy |
| Author | Simon Andrew Stirling |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | The History Press Ltd |
| Year published | 2020-05-15 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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