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Wow. Useful content, but undermined by the condescending tone. Also by featured text being printed in orange-on-white or white-on-orange, which looks great on the front cover but is near-unreadable in a small typeface.

Unexpected and all the more interesting for it! I'm enjoying this.

Such a gracious Introduction by GL Kittredge! Concluding: "It is a privilege to introduce such a book to the reader, whom, however, I must no longer detain on the threshold."

... I am currently eating a chocolate-covered digestive in honour of the prescient Sir Gabriel.

Chapter 22 "Plantations" interesting and super useful.

Chapters 19 (A World of Honour) and 20 (Political Thought and Intellectual History) were excellent.

Arthur as a Pelagian hero, "a kind of secular Saint".

Wow! "In Parenthesis" by David Jones sounds incredible!

Tennyson has Ettarre riding at the head of women warriors intending to joust with the Knights at Caerleon.

"beneath the secret of Lancelot and Guinevere lies another even more destructive one: that the power of the monarch is not divine but arbitrary and easily overthrown."

"Malory... explicates how the earthly hero's rise and eventual fall and tragedy are predicated upon the same abilities, virtue and character that secure his or her greatness."

"but - instinctive rather than inventive - the Walkers were quite simply befuddled by the Victorian age, so that by the time the old Queen died they were considered half wild..."

Wow. The Last Rites was amazing.

This is wonderful...

Ambrosius loved Percivale much beyond the rest (Tennyson).

Lancelot had initially 5 great virtues : virginity, humility, patience, rectitude, charity.