So Much Smoke
Tom Shippey: King Arthur, 20 December 2018
King Arthur: the Making of the Legend
by Nicholas Higham.
Yale, 380 pp., £25, October 2018,978 0 300 21092 7 Show More
by Nicholas Higham.
Yale, 380 pp., £25, October 2018,
“... borderline of history and mythology has wasted more of the historian’s time.’ In his new book, Nicholas Higham cites neither opinion but certainly knows of them, and indeed, in the end, agrees with them (except about book titles). Still, whatever historians may say, legends of King Arthur have remained deep-rooted in popular imagination, giving rise ... ”