{"product_id":"the-reign-of-arthur-from-history-to-legend","title":"The Reign of Arthur: From History to Legend","description":"\u003cp\u003eDid King Arthur really exist? The Reign of Arthur takes a fresh look at the early sources describing Arthurs career and compares them to the reality of Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries. It presents  for the first time  both the most up to date scholarship and a convincing case for the existence of a real sixth-century British general called Arthur. Where others speculate wildly or else avoid the issue  Gidlow  remaining faithful to the sources  deals directly with the central issue of interest to the general reader: does the Arthur that we read of in the ninth-century sources have any link to a real leader of the fifth or sixth century? Was Arthur a powerful king or a Dark Age general co-cordinating the British resistance to Saxon invaders? Detailed analysis of the key Arthurian sources  contemporary testimony and archaeology reveals the reality of fragmented British kingdoms uniting under a single military command to defeat the Saxons. There is plausible and convincing evidence for the existence of their war-leader  and  in this challenging and provocative work  Gidlow concludes that the Dark Age hypothesis of Arthur  War-leader of the Kings of the Britons  not only fits the facts  it is the only way of making sense of them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44959558533173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0750934190","price":40.02,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780750934190.jpg?v=1770374263","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-reign-of-arthur-from-history-to-legend","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}