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Arthurian Literature and Celtic Colonization

Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States21L.707
Free, no sign-up neededSpring 2017English
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The course examines the earliest emergence of stories about King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table in the context of the first wave of British Imperialism and the expanded powers of the Catholic Church during the twelfth and thirteenth centuries. The morphology of Arthurian romance will be set off against original historical documents and chronicle sources for the English conquests in Brittany, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland to understand the ways in which these new attitudes towards…

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