Myth of the Month 12: The Arthur Cycle -- pt. 1: Creating "King Arthur"
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The Arthur Story and the French Chivalry
The first major writer who takes up arthur and tries to develop it into a complete, rounded mythic cycle is named etiene de tois. Cretien introduces a number of really important central elements that we still associate with arthur. He makes arthurian britain into a kind of perfect exemplar of the ideals of chivalry. So i am going to leave this story off here at this point, and in part two, we'll discuss more of cretian detois and the golden age of arthurian literature in the high middle ages. And finally, of course, i'll have a secon e nine to examine the question of egor king ar
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