Dr Mary Bateman

150 of them.

150 of them.

Quite a lot. Lancelot is more important than in other English romances in Mallory because of his French sources. And this is where you get the story of Lancelot and Guinevere, that great love triangle. Mallory's kind of squeamish about the sex stuff. So they don't have sex.

Quite a lot. Lancelot is more important than in other English romances in Mallory because of his French sources. And this is where you get the story of Lancelot and Guinevere, that great love triangle. Mallory's kind of squeamish about the sex stuff. So they don't have sex.

Yeah. Well, and possibly a slightly more prudish audience. I don't know. Until quite late in the text. And then after everything goes wrong for Arthur and he's betrayed by Mordred and the knights fall into kind of infighting and factions, partly because of what happens with Lancelot and Guinevere. It all goes very wrong. Arthur is mortally wounded and is taken off to Avalon.

Yeah. Well, and possibly a slightly more prudish audience. I don't know. Until quite late in the text. And then after everything goes wrong for Arthur and he's betrayed by Mordred and the knights fall into kind of infighting and factions, partly because of what happens with Lancelot and Guinevere. It all goes very wrong. Arthur is mortally wounded and is taken off to Avalon.

This is one of those texts where we are told some people think he doesn't live anymore. And this is where we first hear Arthur called the once and future king. And then there's a funny postscript with Lancelot and Guinevere where they become a monk and a nun, respectively, which is greatly elaborated upon by Mallory.

This is one of those texts where we are told some people think he doesn't live anymore. And this is where we first hear Arthur called the once and future king. And then there's a funny postscript with Lancelot and Guinevere where they become a monk and a nun, respectively, which is greatly elaborated upon by Mallory.

The grail quest is very much in there.

The grail quest is very much in there.

Does a grail, gets made a king, dies. Yes.

Does a grail, gets made a king, dies. Yes.

I think we think of Arthurian tourism as a kind of post-Victorian thing, but absolutely not. You know, like people were going to pilgrimage sites and churches and things like that that claimed to have objects connected with Arthur and all of the people who populated his world. Some of these were kind of clearly propaganda objects as well, right?

I think we think of Arthurian tourism as a kind of post-Victorian thing, but absolutely not. You know, like people were going to pilgrimage sites and churches and things like that that claimed to have objects connected with Arthur and all of the people who populated his world. Some of these were kind of clearly propaganda objects as well, right?

So when Edward I defeats Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, he seizes a crown from him that is supposed to have been Arthur's crown that then gets stored quite safely in Westminster for a while. Oh. There's Arthur's sword.

So when Edward I defeats Llywelyn ap Gruffydd, he seizes a crown from him that is supposed to have been Arthur's crown that then gets stored quite safely in Westminster for a while. Oh. There's Arthur's sword.

Yes, he does. He gives it to, I think, King Tancred, I think. He gives it to the King of Sicily.

Yes, he does. He gives it to, I think, King Tancred, I think. He gives it to the King of Sicily.

So they say.

So they say.