King Arthur in Literature and Popular Culture: From Sir Thomas Malory to the Present

'tis but a scratch: fact and fiction about the Middle Ages - A podcast by Richard Abels

Send us a textToday’s episode concludes our three part series about King Arthur in history, legend, and popular culture. Our jumping off point for this episode is Sir Thomas Malory’s late fifteenth-century Le Morte D’Arthur, the work most responsible for the popular conception of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table. We then trace how the legend has been repeatedly reinterpreted down to the present day in literature, films, comics, and even video games. Listen...