tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post6154387759270110523..comments2024-03-28T21:32:26.550+00:00Comments on Bruce Charlton's Notions: Why was King Arthur a Good King?Bruce Charltonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-36354875775416714572015-01-03T06:15:02.144+00:002015-01-03T06:15:02.144+00:00@OR- I read the book a few years ago, and thought ...@OR- I read the book a few years ago, and thought it was very good. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-60365016068830252172015-01-02T22:28:33.681+00:002015-01-02T22:28:33.681+00:00Here's a free online book claiming Harold as a...Here's a free online book claiming Harold as a martyr for Orthodoxy and William as the imposer of feudal Papalism on England.<br /><a href="http://www.romanitas.ru/eng/THE%20FALL%20OF%20ORTHODOX%20ENGLAND%205X8.htm" rel="nofollow">The Fall of Orthodox England</a><br />Not quite the usual view of Hastings.Odin's Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10138497698247404499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-71966317856042058462015-01-02T16:43:54.654+00:002015-01-02T16:43:54.654+00:00@Leo - Aargh - I can't have commenters setting...@Leo - Aargh - I can't have commenters setting me homework! The plain answer is that the vast bulk of modern research is dishonest and incompetent, and then you have the journalist hypeing it for a general audience. <br /><br />I don't know whether these particular researchers and these journalists are to be trusted, also I have a very low opinion of the kind of people who do this kind of funding-driven political-correctness-filtered research - so generally I ignore it. Maybe in another decade or two we will know what's what - more likely we never will. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-33085559575516408502015-01-02T16:30:37.851+00:002015-01-02T16:30:37.851+00:00Bruce,
I would be interested in your opinion of t...Bruce,<br /><br />I would be interested in your opinion of these and similar articles:<br /><br />http://harvardmagazine.com/2009/07/who-killed-the-men-england<br /><br />http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/features/what-makes-british<br /><br />http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/features/mythsofbritishancestry<br /><br />Leonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-15359938595287700882015-01-02T06:10:37.022+00:002015-01-02T06:10:37.022+00:00@AT - I had not heard about the Kievan Rus, but my...@AT - I had not heard about the Kievan Rus, but my understanding is that a large number of English (I seem to recall 10,000?) fled to Constantinople after the Norman invasion, and set up an English enclave there which lasted for some hundreds of years.Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-76366697607406673592015-01-02T02:20:14.952+00:002015-01-02T02:20:14.952+00:00Don't write it as fiction, write it as a histo...Don't write it as fiction, write it as a historical account. Don't underestimate the power of an interesting idea inspired by Christian truth. That' all Tolkien and Lewis did. Retold the truth. <br />Speaking of Britain and Byzantium, i read somewhere that King Harold's family escaped to the Kievan Rus after the battle of Hastings. Could it be that the Norman invasion was a part of the great schism? Would be fascinating if true.AlexTnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-73792280742250107102015-01-01T15:23:21.196+00:002015-01-01T15:23:21.196+00:00NF - You faith is touching! But fiction is somethi...NF - You faith is touching! But fiction is something I have tried and failed in the past - indeed, I find reading my past attempts so embarrassing that I just can't do it! Part of growing-up is recognizing what you can't do - I can't do fiction. Or poetry, for that matter. Bruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-42987140671860461512015-01-01T14:57:06.650+00:002015-01-01T14:57:06.650+00:00Give it a try Bruce, you may be a storyteller who ...Give it a try Bruce, you may be a storyteller who just needs to start. The main characters of the narrative already exist, you have a period to place them in, and even some blazes on the narrative trail. And it is not as if others have not done it from very different perspectives, be it T.H. White, Mark Twain or Marion Zimmer Bradley. It's a great tale to break your literary teeth on, and you already have an idea of where you want to take it. Now let the characters tell you their tale, and you be their scribe. Be faithful to them. Paint them honestly - warts and all - as they tell you about a time and a tale that clearly captures your interest and imagination.<br /><br />Be careful to not impose upon the characters, but give them a new voice on an old and much loved mythic tale. <br /><br />You may find you have the chops for literary writing, but unless you start climbing that particular mountain, you'll not know. It is its own quest, and like any quest their will be challenges, failures and learning along the way; and through them characters and author find their mettle.<br /><br />You clearly have a love for this type of literature, so give it a go. Don't be intimidated by the edifices of great authors, as everyone starts at the base of the same mountain to begin their Author's Progress.<br /><br />Nicholas Fulfordnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-30345392986070948552015-01-01T14:34:53.356+00:002015-01-01T14:34:53.356+00:00@OR - Yes indeed.
http://charltonteaching.blogsp...@OR - Yes indeed. <br /><br />http://charltonteaching.blogspot.co.uk/2010/10/greatest-englishman-ever-king-alfred.htmlBruce Charltonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09615189090601688535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4683970826895755480.post-10243030148439367962015-01-01T11:48:23.400+00:002015-01-01T11:48:23.400+00:00Arthur as precursor of Alfred?Arthur as precursor of Alfred?Odin's Ravenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10138497698247404499noreply@blogger.com