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,
“... Arthur; we must reject him from our histories and, above all, from the titles of our books,’ David Dumville wrote in 1977; and he was backed up by, for instance, J.N.L. Myres in 1986: ‘No figure on the borderline of history and mythology has wasted more of the historian’s time.’ In his new book, Nicholas Higham cites neither opinion but certainly ... ”