The Mammoth Book of King Arthur (100 page)

BIBLIOGRAPHY

The following lists the major works I consulted in the preparation of this book.

1. History of the late Roman period to the sixth century

Alcock, Leslie,
Arthur’s Britain
(London: Allen Lane, 1971)

Alcock, Leslie,
Economy, Society & Warfare Among the Britons &
Saxons
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1987)

Arnold, Christopher J. and Davies, Jeffrey L.,
Roman and Early Medieval Wales
(Stroud: Sutton, 2000)

Barnwell, P.S.,
Emperor, Prefects & Kings, The Roman West, 395–565
(London: Duckworth, 1992)

Bassett, Steven (editor),
The Origins of the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
(Leicester University Press, 1989)

Breeze, David J.,
The Northern Frontiers of Roman Britain
(London: Batsford, 1982)

Cleary, A.S.,
The Ending of Roman Britain
(London: Batsford, 1989)

Dark, Ken,
Britain and the End of the Roman Empire
(Stroud: Tempus, 2000)

Dark, K.R.,
Civitas to Kingdom
(Leicester University Press, 1994)

Davies, Hugh,
Roads in Roman Britain
(Stroud: Tempus, 2002)

Davies, Wendy,
Wales in the Early Middle Ages
(Leicester University Press, 1982)

Dillon, Myles and Chadwick, Nora,
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(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1967)

Dornier, Ann, “The Province of Valentia”,
Britannia
(13), 1982

Dumville, David N.,
Britons and Anglo-Saxons in the Early Middle Ages
(Aldershot: Ashgate
Publishing, 1993)

Ellis, Peter Berresford,
Celt and Saxon, The Struggle for Britain
ad 410–937 (London: Constable, 1993)

Evans, Stephen S.,
Lords of Battle
(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997)

Garmonsway, G.N. (editor, translator),
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
(London: Dent, 1953, 1972)

Gelling, Margaret,
The West Midlands in the Early Middle Ages
(Leicester University Press, 1992)

Giles, J.A.,
Six Old English Chronicles
(London: Bell, 1891)

Giot, Pierre-Roland, Guigon, Philippe and Merdrignac, Bernard,
The British Settlement of Brittany
(Stroud: Tempus, 2003)

Hill, David,
An Atlas of Anglo-Saxon England
(Oxford: Blackwell, 1981)

Hood, A.B.E.,
St Patrick, His Writings and Muirchu’s Life
(Chichester: Phillimore, 1978)

Johnson, Stephen,
Later Roman Britain
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980)

Jones, Michael E. and Casey, John, “The Gallic Chronicle Restored”,
Britannia
(19), 1988

Kirby, D.P.,
The Earliest English Kings
(London: Unwin Hyman, 1991)

Koch, John T.,
The Gododdin of Aneirin
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1997)

Laing, Lloyd and Jennifer,
Anglo-Saxon England
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979)

Laing, Lloyd and Jennifer,
The Origins of Britain
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1980)

Laing, Lloyd,
Celtic Britain
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979)

McClure, Judith and Collins, Roger (editors),
Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
(Oxford University Press, 1994)

Marsden, John,
Northanhymbre Saga, the History of the Anglo-Saxon Kings of Northumbria
(London: Kyle Cathie, 1992)

Maund, Kari,
The Welsh Kings
(Stroud: Tempus, 2000)

Mongan, Norman,
The Menapia Quest
(Dublin: Herodotus Press, 1995)

Moorhead, John,
The Roman Empire Divided, 400–700
(Harlow: Longman, 2001)

Morris, John,
The Age of Arthur
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1973)

Morris, John (editor, translator),
Nennius, British History and the Welsh Annals
(Chichester: Phillimore, 1980)

Morris, John,
Arthurian Sources, Vol.2, Annals and Charters
(Chichester: Phillimore, 1995)

Morris, John,
Studies in Dark-Age History
(Chichester: Phillimore, 1995)

Muhlberger, Steven, “The Gallic Chronicle of 452 and its Authority for British Events”,
Britannia
(14), 1983

Myres, J.N.L.,
The English Settlements
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1986)

Newton, Sam,
The Origins of Beowulf and the Pre-Viking Kingdom of East Anglia
(Cambridge: Brewer, 1993)

Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí,
Early Medieval Ireland 400–1200
(Harlow: Longman, 1995)

Salway, Peter,
Roman Britain
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1981)

Snyder, Christopher A.,
Sub-Roman Britain
(Oxford: Hadrian Books, 1996)

Snyder, Christopher A.,
An Age of Tyrants
(Stroud: Sutton, 1998)

Stafford, Pauline,
The East Midlands in the Early Middle Ages
(Leicester University Press, 1985)

Swanton, Michael (editor, translator),
The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
(London: Dent, 1996)

Thomas, Charles,
Christianity in Roman Britain to AD500
(London: Batsford, 1981)

Thompson, E.A.,
Saint Germanus of Auxerre and the End of Roman Britain
(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1984)

Thorpe, Lewis (translator),
Gregory of Tours, The History of the Franks
(London: Penguin, 1974)

Vince, Alan (editor),
Pre-Viking Lindsey
(City of Lincoln, 1993)

Wacher, John,
The Coming of Rome
(London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1979)

Walker, Ian W.,
Mercia and the making of England
(Stroud: Sutton, 2000)

Williams, Hugh (translator),
Gildas
(London: David Nutt, 1901).

Williams, Hugh (translator),
Two Lives of Gildas
(originally, 1889; reprinted, Felinfach: Llanerch, 1990)

Wilson, Roger J.A.,
A Guide to the Roman Remains in Britain
(London: Constable, 4
^th
edition, 2002)

Winterbottom, Michael (editor, translator),
Gildas, The Ruin of Britain and Other Works
(Chichester: Phillimore, 1978)

Wood, Ian,
The Merovingian Kingdoms, 450–751
(Harlow: Longman, 1994)

Yorke, Barbara,
Kings and Kingdoms of Early Anglo-Saxon England
(London: Sealby, 1990)

Yorke, Barbara,
Wessex in the Early Middle Ages
(London: Leicester University Press, 1995)

Zaluckyj, Sarah,
Mercia
(Almeley: Logaston Press, 2001)

2. Other historical studies, including the Crusades

Biddle, Martin,
King Arthur’s Round Table
(Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2000)

Bouchard, Constance Brittain,
Holy Entrepreneurs: Cistercians, Knights and Economic Exchange in Twelfth-Century Burgundy
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1991)

Crouch, David,
William Marshall, Knighthood, War and Chivalry, 1147–1219
(Harlow: Longman, 2002)

Hindley, Geoffrey,
The Crusades
(London: Constable, 2003)

Hughes, Jonathan,
Arthurian Myths and Alchemy — The Kingship of Edward IV
(Stroud: Sutton, 2002)

King, Archdale A.,
Cîteaux and Her Elder Daughters
(London: Burns & Oates, 1954)

Nicolle, David,
The Crusades
(Oxford: Osprey, 2001)

Phillips, Jonathan,
The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople
(London: Jonathan Cape, 2004)

Seward, Desmond,
The Monks of War
(London: Penguin Books, revised, 1995)

Urban, William,
The Teutonic Knights
(London: Greenhill, 2003)

Weir, Alison,
Eleanor of Aquitaine
(London: Cape, 1999)

3. Specific studies and speculations on Arthur and his world

Ashe, Geoffrey,
The Discovery of King Arthur
(Stroud: Sutton, revised edition, 2003)

Barber, Chris & Pykitt, David,
Journey to Avalon
(Abergavenny: Blorenge Books, 1993)

Barber, Richard,
The Figure of Arthur
(Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1972)

Barber, Richard,
King Arthur, Hero and Legend
(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, new edition, 1986,
1993).

Blackett, Baram and Wilson, Alan,
Artorius Rex Discovered
(Cardiff: King Arthur Research, 1985)

Blake, Steve and Lloyd, Scott,
The Keys to Avalon
(Shaftesbury: Element, 2000)

Blake, Steve and Lloyd, Scott,
Pendragon
(London: Rider, 2002)

Bruce, Christopher W.,
The Arthurian Name Dictionary
(New York: Garland, 1999)

Carroll, D.F.,
Arturius
-
A Quest for Camelot
(Goxhill: private, 1996)

Castleden, Rodney,
King Arthur, the Truth behind the Legend
(London: Routledge, 2000)

Chambers, E.K.,
Arthur of Britain
(London: Sidgwick & Jackson, 1927)

Crawford, O.G.S., “Arthur and his Battles”,
Antiquity
(35), 1935

Dames, Michael,
Merlin and Wales, a Magician’s Landscape
(London: Thames & Hudson, 2002)

Davidson, Hilda Ellis (editor), Fisher, Peter (translator),
Saxo Grammaticus: The History of the Danes, Books I-IX
(Cambridge: Brewer, 1996)

Gidlow, Christopher,
The Reign of Arthur, From History to Legend
(Stroud: Sutton, 2004)

Gilbert, Adrian, Wilson, Alan and Blackett, Baram,
The Holy Kingdom
(London: Bantam Press, 1998)

Goodrich, Norma Lorre,
King Arthur
(New York: Franklin Watts, 1986),
Merlin
(Watts, 1988),
Guinevere
(HarperCollins, 1992),
The Holy Grail
(HarperCollins, 1992)

Grimbert, Joan Tasker (editor),
Tristan and Isolde, a Casebook
(London: Routledge, 2002)

Higham, N.J.,
King Arthur, Myth-Making and History
(London: Routledge, 2002)

Holmes, Michael,
King Arthur, a Military History
(London: Blandford, 1996)

Kennedy, Edward Donald (editor),
King Arthur, a Casebook
(London: Routledge, 2002)

Lacy, Norris J. (editor),
The New Arthurian Encyclopedia
(New York: Garland, 1996)

Littleton, C. Scott & Malcor, Linda A.,
From Scythia to Camelot
(New York: Garland, new edition, 2000)

Markale, Jean,
King of the Celts
(originally Paris, 1976) (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1994)

Markale, Jean,
Merlin, Priest of Nature
(originally Paris, 1981) (Rochester, VT: Inner Traditions, 1995)

Millar, Ronald,
Will the Real King Arthur Please Stand Up?
(London: Cassell, 1978)

Moffat, Alistair,
Arthur and the Lost Kingdoms
(London: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999)

Phillips, Graham & Keatman, Martin,
King Arthur, the True Story
(London: Century, 1992)

Reid, Howard,
Arthur the Dragon King
(London: Headline, 2001)

Reno, Frank D.,
The Historic King Arthur
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1996)

Reno, Frank D.,
Historic Figures of the Arthurian Era
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2000)

Snyder, Christopher,
Exploring the World of King Arthur
(London: Thames & Hudson, 2000)

Tolstoy, Nikolai,
The Quest for Merlin
(London: Hamish Hamilton, 1985)

Turner, P.F.J,
The Real King Arthur
(Alaska: SKS, 1993, 2 vols)

Walters, Lori J. (editor),
Lancelot and Guinevere, a Casebook
(London: Routledge, 2002)

Wildman, S.G.,
The Black Horsemen
(London: Baker, 1971)

4. Arthurian Legends, Romances, Literature, Art and Cinema

For specific romances see references in Chapters 13 to 18

Barron, W.R.J, (editor),
The Arthur of the English
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2001)

Bartrum, P.C.,
Early Welsh Genealogical Tracts
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1966)

Bartrum, Peter C.,
A Welsh Classical Dictionary
(Aberystwyth: National Library of Wales, 1993)

Bromwich, Rachel, Jarman, A.O.H., Roberts, Brynley F. (editors),
The Arthur of the Welsh
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 1991)

Coe, Jon B. and Young, Simon,
The Celtic Sources for the Arthurian Legend
(Felinfach: Llanerch, 1995)

Coghlan, Ronan,
The Encyclopedia of Arthurian Legends
(Shaftesbury: Element, 1991)

Dixon-Kennedy, Mike,
Arthurian Myth & Legend
(London: Blandford, 1995)

Dover, Carol,
A Companion to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle
(Cambridge: Brewer, 2003)

Field, P.J.C.,
The Life and Times of Sir Thomas Malory
(Cambridge: Brewer, 1993)

Green, Miranda J.,
Dictionary of Celtic Myth and Legend
(London: Thomas & Hudson, 1992)

Harty, Kevin J.,
King Arthur on Film
(Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1999)

Jackson, W.H. and Ranawake, S.A. (editors),
The Arthur of the Germans
(Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2000)

Karr, Phyllis Ann,
The Arthurian Companion
(Oakland, CA: Green Knight, revised edition, 2001)

Koch, John T. with Carey, John,
The Celtic Heroic Age
(Aberystwyth: Celtic Studies Publications, 4
^th
edition, 2003)

Loomis, Roger Sherman (editor),
Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages
(Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959)

Loomis, Roger Sherman,
Celtic Myth and Arthurian Romance
(New York: Columbia, 1927)

Loomis, Roger Sherman,
The Development of Arthurian Romance
(London: Hutchinson, 1963)

Lupack, Alan and Lupack, Barbara Tepa,
Arthur in America
(Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 1999)

Luttrell, Claude,
The Creation of the First Arthurian Romance
(Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1974)

Maier, Bernhard,
Dictionary of Celtic Religion and Culture
(Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997)

Mason, Eugene (editor, translator),
Arthurian Chronicles: Wace and Layamon
(London: Dent, 1962)