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Sarmatism lauded past victories of the Polish military, and required Polish noblemen to cultivate the tradition. Sarmatia ( Polish : Sarmacja ) was a semi-legendary, poetic name for Poland that was fashionable into the 18th century, and which designated qualities associated with the literate citizenry of the vast Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.
As such, the traditions would have had to survive in Britain for at least a thousand years between the arrival of the Sarmatians in the 2nd century and the Arthurian romances of the 12th century. [58] Nonetheless, the Sarmatian connection continues to have popular appeal; it is the basis of the 2004 film King Arthur. [58]
Sarmatian cataphracts in Trajan's column, 2nd century CE. [1]The Sarmatians (/ s ɑːr ˈ m eɪ ʃ i ə n z /; Ancient Greek: Σαρμάται, romanized: Sarmatai; Latin: Sarmatae [ˈsarmatae̯]) were a large confederation of ancient Iranian equestrian nomadic peoples who dominated the Pontic steppe from about the 3rd century BC to the 4th century AD.
By the end of Arthurian prose cycles (including the seminal Le Morte d'Arthur), the Round Table splits up into groups of warring factions following the revelation of Lancelot's adultery with King Arthur's wife, Queen Guinevere. In the same tradition, Guinevere is featured with her own personal order of young knights, known as the Queen's Knights.
As Taylor and Brewer have noted, this return to the medieval "chronicle tradition" of Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Historia Brittonum is a recent trend which became dominant in Arthurian literature in the years following the outbreak of the Second World War, when Arthur's legendary resistance to Germanic enemies struck a chord in Britain. [141]
The Arthurian literary cycle is the best-known part of the Matter of Britain. It has succeeded largely because it tells two interlocking stories that have intrigued many later authors. It has succeeded largely because it tells two interlocking stories that have intrigued many later authors.
In Taliesin's Successors: Interviews with authors of modern Arthurian literature, The Camelot Project at the University of Rochester (August 1986), Raymond H. Thompson described these seven works by Sutcliff as "some of the finest contemporary recreations of the Arthurian story". Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Idylls of the King
The Seven Deadly Sins (2012–2020), a manga loosely based on the Arthurian legend; Four Knights of the Apocalypse (2021–present) The School for Good and Evil series contains many Arthurian figures, including King Arthur's son as a central character (2013–2020) The Fall of Arthur by J.R.R. Tolkien (published 2013, written circa 1920–30s)