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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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
Can any Arthurians tell me how/why they are there? (Apologies for quality of pix, obviously.)pic.twitter.com/549Yp1zmTo
Loomis argued that it was evidence of a pre-Geoffrey of Monmouth transmission of the Arthurian legend — it's a fascinating example! See e.g. http://clasmerdin.blogspot.co.uk/2011/05/modena-archivolt.html … &https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=5GeuBwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT328&pg=PT328#v=onepage&q&f=false …
Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
Interestingly, seems to be an equally early transmission to Spain too...https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/719440054616240128 …
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Dr Caitlin Green Retweeted Dr Caitlin Green
The 12thC Otranto mosaic is also worth a ponder too... Seems to be non-Galfridian in inspiration :)https://twitter.com/caitlinrgreen/status/852290594227576832 …
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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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