Matter of Britain Topic
The Round Table as object and as idea
- Summary
- Wace introduces the table in 1155 to prevent quarrels over precedence. The physical Round Table at Winchester Great Hall is a fourteenth-century construction, repainted for Henry VIII with a Tudor rose at its centre and Henry's own face on Arthur. A clean case of a literary device becoming a political prop.
Worldviews
Geoffrey's Pseudohistory, Malory's Fellowship and Its Fall, Revival, Screen and Afterlife
Provenance
- Source method
- Web research
- Review status
- DRAFT
- Confidence
- HIGH