Seems extraordinary to me that there are depictions of King Arthur, Guinevere, Gawain and others on a 12th-century doorway in Modena's duomo.pic.twitter.com/qvFU9BAPSr
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Interestingly, seems to be an equally early transmission to Spain too...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/719440054616240128 …
The 12thC Otranto mosaic is also worth a ponder too... Seems to be non-Galfridian in inspiration :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/852290594227576832 …
Would it be true to say pre-Galfridian Arthuriana is primarily non-Christian? Fascinated both by the obviously widespread knowledge of this mythology in Italy, etc - and also its seemingly secure place in a Christian context.
Ooh, there's a question -- it once might have been said so, but most recent stuff tends to back away from that. For my part, I'd say the 'historical' element in the non-/pre-Galfridian material is vanishingly small and the vast majority portrays Arthur as a folkloric protector >
> of the landscape intertwined with tales of giants, witches, dragons, cat-monsters, giant boars and the like... His core companions in the earliest material do tend to include a number of presumed or certain euhemerized etc dieties, of course, and the hunting of the giant >
(divine) boar has analogues in Roman-era Gaul, iirc... :)
That all sounds *very* non-Christian! Intrigued to hear recent work shies away from acknowledging/exploring that - if I've understood you correctly.
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