Reading about the forthcoming King Arthur movie, can't help but think missing a trick not having him ride a camel…(c.1500, Leiden: The Met).pic.twitter.com/ZEwKTZv5lO
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Reading about the forthcoming King Arthur movie, can't help but think missing a trick not having him ride a camel…(c.1500, Leiden: The Met).pic.twitter.com/ZEwKTZv5lO
Maybe they should make him a 'Sarmatian mercenary' like in that 2004 masterpiece
Hmmm!! :-/ (Though the film and theory do offer a nice starting point for discussing the many 'historical Arthur' theories, methods etc!)
Indeed. It's a great opportunity to bring up these historical questions, debates, methods, the role of myth-making...
I remember seeing it in 2004 at the cinema right after doing my first early medieval paper and howling with laughter at the screen
Yes, I can imagine! Are you familiar with the underlying 'Sarmatian hypothesis'? I recall some very umm 'heated' debates on academic email >
> lists back in the day (late 90s/early 00s) with its authors, who would defend their work no matter what, all got most uncomfortable…!
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