Robin Melrose: 4 books
Warriors and Wilderness in Medieval Britain
From Arthur and Beowulf to Sir Gawain and Robin Hood
Language: English
Release Date: February 7, 2017
Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur’s depiction as a wilderness figure, the descendant of the northern Romano-British hunter/warrior god. The earliest Arthur was a warrior but in the 11th century Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, he is...
Magic in Britain
A History of Medieval and Earlier Practices
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2018
Magic, both benevolent (white) and malign (black), has been practiced in the British Isles since at least the Iron Age (800 BCE–CE 43). “Curse tablets”—metal plates inscribed with curses intended to harm specific people—date from the Roman Empire. The Anglo-Saxons who settled in England...
Religion in Britain from the Megaliths to Arthur
An Archaeological and Mythological Exploration
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2016
The Druids and the Arthurian legends are all most of us know about early Britain, from the Neolithic to the Iron Age (4500 BC–AD 43). Drawing on archaeological discoveries and medieval Welsh texts like the Mabinogion, this book explores the religious beliefs of the ancient Britons before the coming...
The Druids and King Arthur
A New View of Early Britain
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2014
An exploration into the beliefs and origins of the Druids, this book examines the role the Druids may have played in the story of King Arthur and the founding of Britain. It explains how the Druids originated in eastern Europe around 850 B.C., bringing to early Britain a cult of an underworld deity,...