The Name of King Arthur

• Autores: Andrew Charles Breeze
• Localización: Mediaevistik: Internationale Zeitschrift für interdisziplinäre Mittelalterforschung, ISSN 0934-7453, Nº. 28, 2015, págs. 23-35
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Few medieval subjects offer better opportunities for thought and its opposite than the British hero Arthur. Evidence for him is limited; books on him abound. So it is worth discussing his name, one of the many things really known about him. Celtic scholars have long derived it from Latin Artorius (and not any native British form); despite that, misconceptions remain. One even notices a decline, so that conclusions accepted in the 1950s are now ignored by senior professors at universities in Britain and beyond. A study of the name Arthur, familiar throughout the middle ages and beyond, may thus honour a medievalist who has done much to enlighten us on them, besides warning us on the fragility of established truth