Geoffrey of M —
When did Kay the seneschal become such a jerk? In Geoffrey of Monmouth’s account he is one of the more valiant knights in Arthur’s court. For instance, when Arthur goes to kill the giant the only two knights he brings with them are Bedevere and Kay. Kay also shows exceptional bravery at the battle of [...]
Because we ran out of time before we ran out of stuff to talk about I thought I would post a few things. My notes and slides from this week are attached at the end of this post, if you want them.
There is a specific passage in the reading in part 7, which caught my attention because of the blatant double standard that Arthur holds with respect to claiming land. Throughout his entire narrative section about Arthur, GM describes the numerous accounts of Arthur going outside of Britain to conquer other lands for the glory [...]
We discussed today in class how GM seems to keep slipping in little Christian moments way too early in Britain’s history. Well, the one we found turned out to be a translation inconsistency, but I think another one happened even earlier.
On page 61 while Brutus is fighting the Greeks and slaughtering them, this passage [...]
There are parts in The History of the Kings of Britain that are obviously made up. Geoffrey writes such detail about events immediately folowing the Trojan War (55), and about supersoldiers like Corineus (who dodges arrows and slices humans in half with one stroke; 67), and about man-eating monsters [...]